JADE-1212 (Japanese Dynamic Earth observation by VLBI) 2012 December 13-14 Notes prepared by Y. Mukai, GSI/AES Geospatial Information Authority of Japan Session JD1212 Start 2012-348 02:00:00 DEC. 13 End 2012-349 01:57:57 DEC. 14 Stations 7 Ai AIRA A Cc CHICHI10 C K1 KASHIM11 R Kg KOGANEI G S3 SINTOTU3 J Ts TSUKUB32 T Vs VERAISGK S Duration: 24 hours Correlator: TSUKUBA(GSI) Purpose ====================================================================== The purpose of the JADE sessions is to monitor the plate motion and the local crustal movement around Japan. In 2012 fiscal year, JADE session will be carried out once a month. Parameter listing ====================================================================== Experiment: JD1212 Description JADE-1212 Scheduler: GSI Correlator: GSI Start: 2012-348-02:00:00 End: 2012-349-02:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2012348 (2012.95)( 16275 MJD, THUR 13 DEC.) Greenwich sidereal time: 7:28: 0.00 ( 2: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 17h 22.8m -23d 9.7 First observations ====================================================================== Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ts Ai Cc S3 Vs K1 Kg 1611+343 12348-020000| 460 480 480 460 290 320 320| 1921-293 12348-020604| 20 20 20| Last observations ====================================================================== Source Start DURATIONS 2134+00 12349-015216| 70 40 40 70 30 20| 0059+581 12349-015417| 180 80 180 80 80| 3C454.3 12349-015757| 50 50 20 20| ====================================================================== SKED Summary from file ./jd1212.skd for experiment JD1212 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 4.5 Min = 0.0 Max = 22.6 (Baseline K1-Kg on 1921-293) RMS = 6.7 Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ts=TSUKUB32 Ai=AIRA Cc=CHICHI10 S3=SINTOTU3 Vs=VERAISGK K1=KASHIM11 Kg=KOGANEI Ts Ai Cc S3 Vs K1 Kg Avg % obs. time: 65 76 69 61 67 52 51 63 % cal. time: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 % slew time: 14 10 11 16 16 11 11 13 % idle time: 20 14 19 21 16 36 36 24 total # scans: 269 232 252 230 232 298 299 258 # scans/hour : 11 10 11 10 10 12 12 11 Avg scan (sec): 208 281 238 230 248 151 149 214 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1009 1174 1078 954 1038 810 800 980 Total GB(M5): 896 1044 958 848 922 720 711 871 # of tapes : 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: 7.0 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 6099.8 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ts Ai Cc S3 Vs K1 Kg StnTotal --------------------------------------------- Ts| 221 226 209 202 244 245 1347 Ai| 212 177 205 229 229 1273 Cc| 205 189 214 214 1260 S3| 160 199 199 1149 Vs| 230 230 1216 K1| 298 1414 Kg| 1415 Number of 2-station scans: 46 Number of 3-station scans: 46 Number of 4-station scans: 21 Number of 5-station scans: 27 Number of 6-station scans: 44 Number of 7-station scans: 157 Total # of scans, observations: 341 4537 Recording mode ====================================================================== Name Code K5-16SXK SX Recording mode setup for: AIRA CHICHI10 KASHIM11 KOGANEI SINTOTU3 TSUKUB32 VERAISGK Mode Tot.Rate Tot.BandW #chan #bits Barrel Mk341:1 128.000 Mbits 64.000 MHz 14 1 NONE Chan.BW #Subpasses Tracks(*fan) Tot.tracks Speed 4.00 MHz 1 16(*1) 16 0.00 X-band spanned bw= 360.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 140.2 MHz S-band spanned bw= 85.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 33.1 MHz Effective number of channels recorded per sub-pass X S Total 10.000 6.000 16.000 Major Options ====================================================================== Subnet TsAiCcS3VsK1Kg SkyCov Yes AllBlGood Yes MaxAngle 180 MinAngle 15 MinBetween 60 MinSunDist 15 MaxSlewTime 300 TimeWindow 2.00 MinSubNetSize 2 NumSubNet 1 Best 20 FillIn Yes FillMinSub 3 FillMinTime 120 FillBest 80 Add_ps 30.0 SNRWts Yes Major Options ====================================================================== Option Norm Wt Aux_Parm NumObs Rel 5.00 SkyCov Rel 1.00 StatIdle Rel 1.00 StatWt Abs 1.00 SNR Targets ====================================================================== Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans X-band (margin 3) S-band (margin 3) Ts Ai Cc S3 Vs K1 Ts Ai Cc S3 Vs K1 Ai 20 Ai 16 Cc 19 17 Cc 15 14 S3 17 0 0 S3 15 0 0 Vs 20 18 17 0 Vs 16 15 14 0 K1 20 18 17 0 18 K1 16 15 14 0 15 Kg 20 18 17 0 18 18 Kg 16 15 14 0 15 15