Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1508 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: R1508 Description IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Start: 2011-325-17:00:00 End: 2011-326-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2011325 (2011.89) ( 15887 MJD, MON. 21NOV.) Greenwich sidereal time: 21: 1: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 15h 47.2m -19d 56.4 =========================================================== Important Station Information Tsukuba 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 Sh Tc Ts Wf Wz 0537-441 11325-170000| 43 43 43 43 43 | 1749+096 11325-170000| 44 238 238 50 190| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Hh Hb Ho Ke Ny Sh Tc Ts Wf Wz 1334-127 11326-165312| 290 290 | 3C371 11326-165330| 43 43 43 43| 1124-186 11326-165444| 271 58 271 | 2214+350 11326-165526| 175 175 122 106| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1508.skd for experiment R1508 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 6.7 Min = 0.0 Max = 160.0 (Baseline Ke-Wf on 1334-127) RMS = 13.2 Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Hh=HARTRAO Hb=HOBART12 Ho=HOBART26 Ke=KATH12M Ny=NYALES20 Sh=SESHAN25 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Hh Hb Ho Ke Ny Sh Tc Ts Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 27 39 32 38 50 41 33 22 49 42 37 % cal. time: 3 4 5 4 5 5 2 4 4 5 4 % slew time: 52 13 54 11 25 36 4 18 18 15 25 % idle time: 17 43 8 47 19 17 60 55 27 37 33 total # scans: 241 371 410 316 429 397 191 382 381 413 353 # scans/hour : 10 15 17 13 18 17 8 16 16 17 15 Avg scan (sec): 98 91 67 104 101 89 150 50 111 89 94 # 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: 849 1212 996 1178 1553 1279 1034 689 1525 1317 1163 Total GB(M5): 754 1077 885 1047 1380 1137 920 612 1356 1171 1034 # 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: 10339.8 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Hh Hb Ho Ke Ny Sh Tc Ts Wf Wz StnTotal ------------------------------------------------------------ Hh| 54 54 52 78 51 86 32 70 132 609 Hb| 326 238 9 74 54 82 8 4 849 Ho| 238 17 117 56 129 6 10 953 Ke| 20 121 26 116 5 17 833 Ny| 259 29 236 287 330 1265 Sh| 0 312 145 214 1293 Tc| 5 96 48 400 Ts| 146 189 1247 Wf| 263 1026 Wz| 1207 Number of 2-station scans: 307 Number of 3-station scans: 318 Number of 4-station scans: 212 Number of 5-station scans: 196 Number of 6-station scans: 19 Number of 7-station scans: 3 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Number of 9-station scans: 0 Number of 10-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1055 4841 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: HARTRAO HOBART12 HOBART26 KATH12M NYALES20 SESHAN25 TIGOCONC TSUKUB32 WESTFORD 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 0206+136 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 0530-727 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 2205+166 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 1100+122 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 0208-512 1.00 1.50 1.12 54 29 1104-445 1.00 1.50 0.29 14 14 1240+381 1.00 1.50 0.43 21 4 0548+378 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 2208-137 1.00 1.50 0.12 6 2 1441+252 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 Total 1.96 95 49 =========================================================== 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 7 TIGOCONC 6.00 =========================================================== Major Options Subnet HhHbHoKeNyShTcTsWfWz 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 Sh SESHAN25 Mark5A Tc TIGOCONC Mark5B Ts TSUKUB32 K5 Wf WESTFORD 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 Sh Tc Ts Wf Hh Hb Ho Ke Ny Sh Tc Ts Wf Hb 20 Hb 15 Ho 20 20 Ho 15 15 Ke 20 20 20 Ke 15 15 15 Ny 20 20 20 20 Ny 15 15 15 15 Sh 20 20 20 20 20 Sh 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 Wf 20 20 20 20 20 20 15 20 Wf 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