Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1498 Prepared by C. Thomas, NVI, Inc./GSFC Refer to http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/program/descrip2011.html#r1 for the session purpose. =========================================================== ----- Parameter listing -------------------------------------- Experiment: R1498 Description IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Start: 2011-241-17:00:00 End: 2011-242-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2011241 (2011.66) ( 15803 MJD, MON. 29AUG.) Greenwich sidereal time: 15:30: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 10h 31.2m 9d 18.3 =========================================================== Important Station Information Katherine was scheduled as a regular station for this session. Warkworth was tagged along to this schedule file. =========================================================== There are no observations for Wettzell from 18:15 U.T. to 19:45 U.T. Wettzell will participate in the intensive session during this period. =========================================================== First observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Hh Hb Ho Ke Ny On Tc Ts Ww Wz 1057-797 11241-170000| 89 141 141 83 | 2059+034 11241-170000| 336 278 194 336 95 149| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Hh Hb Ho Ke Ny On Tc Ts Ww Wz 3C418 11242-164932| 173 43 173| OJ287 11242-165047| 43 131 131 | 0013-005 11242-165125| 123 123 | 1759-396 11242-165235| 228 228 | 0727-115 11242-165419| 81 81 80 | 1732+389 11242-165441| 79 79 43 52| 2113+293 11242-165701| 94 94 45 69| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1498.skd for experiment R1498 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 6.8 Min = 0.0 Max = 69.7 (Baseline Ts-Wz on 0727-115) RMS = 12.2 Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Hh=HARTRAO Hb=HOBART12 Ho=HOBART26 Ke=KATH12M Ny=NYALES20 On=ONSALA60 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Ww=WARK12M Wz=WETTZELL Hh Hb Ho Ke Ny On Tc Ts Ww Wz Avg % obs. time: 34 57 42 47 44 45 40 36 16 41 40 % cal. time: 3 3 3 4 5 5 2 6 2 5 4 % slew time: 47 10 39 12 26 30 3 25 4 15 22 % idle time: 15 29 15 36 23 19 53 32 77 38 34 total # scans: 231 289 254 332 442 433 178 507 148 427 324 # scans/hour : 10 12 11 14 18 18 7 21 6 18 14 Avg scan (sec): 128 171 143 122 86 89 195 61 92 83 116 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1065 1775 1307 1463 1374 1387 1252 1107 492 1268 1249 Total GB(M5): 947 1577 1162 1300 1222 1233 1113 984 437 1128 1110 # of tapes : 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: 10.0 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 11102.5 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Hh Hb Ho Ke Ny On Tc Ts Ww Wz StnTotal ------------------------------------------------------------ Hh| 61 54 57 52 87 68 43 30 117 569 Hb| 104 240 36 16 34 186 142 25 844 Ho| 149 25 5 76 108 104 12 637 Ke| 48 21 23 205 129 28 900 Ny| 358 25 262 20 306 1132 On| 27 213 2 348 1077 Tc| 22 35 45 355 Ts| 86 201 1326 Ww| 2 550 Wz| 1084 Number of 2-station scans: 347 Number of 3-station scans: 301 Number of 4-station scans: 243 Number of 5-station scans: 75 Number of 6-station scans: 43 Number of 7-station scans: 2 Number of 8-station scans: 2 Number of 9-station scans: 1 Number of 10-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1014 4237 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: HARTRAO HOBART12 HOBART26 KATH12M NYALES20 ONSALA60 TIGOCONC TSUKUB32 WARK12M WETTZELL Mode Tot.Rate Tot.BandW #chan #bits Barrel Mk341:2 256.000 Mbits 128.000 MHz 14 1 NONE Chan.BW #Subpasses Tracks(*fan) Tot.tracks Speed 8.00 MHz 1 16(*2) 32 0.00 X-band spanned bw= 720.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 280.4 MHz S-band spanned bw= 140.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 50.9 MHz Effective number of channels recorded per sub-pass X S Total 10.000 6.000 16.000 =========================================================== Monitoring Sources Source Min Max Actual #Num #Scans 1101-536 1.00 1.50 0.14 6 6 2205+166 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 1657-562 1.00 1.50 0.02 1 1 0958+346 1.00 1.50 0.07 3 3 0402-362 1.00 1.50 0.19 8 8 1511-100 1.00 1.50 0.45 19 13 2353-686 1.00 1.50 0.02 1 1 0013-005 1.00 1.50 0.61 26 15 0426+273 1.00 1.50 0.28 12 7 1508+572 1.00 1.50 0.35 15 9 Total 2.15 91 63 =========================================================== Minor Options Option Norm Wt Aux_Parm Astro Abs 3.00 BegScan Rel 1.00 EndScan Rel 1.00 NumObs Rel 1.00 StatIdle Abs 3.00 StatWt Abs 2.00 2 HOBART12 4.00 7 TIGOCONC 6.00 =========================================================== Major Options Subnet HhHbHoKeNyOnTcTsWwWz SkyCov Yes AllBlGood Yes MaxAngle 180 MinAngle 15 MinBetween 20 MinSunDist 15 MaxSlewTime 300 TimeWindow 24.00 MinSubNetSize 2 NumSubNet 1 Best 60 FillIn Yes FillMinSub 3 FillMinTime 120 FillBest 80 Add_ps 30.0 SNRWts Yes =========================================================== Tape types ID Station Tape length Density Passes Hh HARTRAO Mark5B Hb HOBART12 Mark5B Ho HOBART26 Mark5A Ke KATH12M Mark5A Ny NYALES20 Mark5A On ONSALA60 Mark5A Tc TIGOCONC Mark5B Ts TSUKUB32 K5 Ww WARK12M Mark5A Wz WETTZELL Mark5A =========================================================== SNR Targets Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans X-band (margin 0) S-band (margin 0) Hh Hb Ho Ke Ny On Tc Ts Ww Hh Hb Ho Ke Ny On Tc Ts Ww Hb 20 Hb 15 Ho 20 99 Ho 15 99 Ke 20 20 20 Ke 15 15 15 Ny 20 20 20 20 Ny 15 15 15 15 On 20 20 20 20 20 On 15 15 15 15 15 Tc 15 15 15 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 12 12 12 Ts 20 20 20 20 20 20 15 Ts 15 15 15 15 15 15 12 Ww 20 20 20 20 20 20 15 20 Ww 15 15 15 15 15 15 12 15 Wz 20 20 20 20 20 20 15 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 15 15 12 15 15