Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1518
Prepared by C. Thomas, NVI, Inc./GSFC
Refer to http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/program/descrip2012.html#r1
for the session purpose.
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----- Parameter listing --------------------------------------
Experiment: R1518 Description IVS-R1
Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN
Start: 2012-030-17:00:00 End: 2012-031-17:00:00
Current yyyyddd: 2012030 (2012.08) ( 15957 MJD, MON. 30JAN.)
Greenwich sidereal time: 1:37: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT)
Sun's RA and DEC: 20h 50.6m -17d 41.1
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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.
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First observations
Source Start DURATIONS
name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Hh Ma Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz
0059+581 12030-170000| 162 92 111 117 162 50 49|
3C371 12030-170325| 90 90 43 85 71|
1738+476 12030-170542| 95 208 109 208 80|
0332-403 12030-170552| 278 136 321 321 |
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Last observations
Source Start DURATIONS
name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Hh Ma Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz
1741-038 12031-165529| 82 189 189 |
1923+210 12031-165549| 43 43 43|
1639+230 12031-165733| 56 56 |
0322+222 12031-165806| 45 45|
0648-165 12031-165837| 43 43 |
1324+224 12031-165917| 43 43 |
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SKED Summary from file ./r1518.skd for experiment R1518
(all scans with at least one subnet station)
Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 6.5
Min = 0.0 Max = 135.0 (Baseline Ma-Ny on 1741-038) RMS = 13.1
Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours).
Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Hh=HARTRAO Ma=MATERA Ny=NYALES20 On=ONSALA60
Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL
Ft Hh Ma Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz Avg
% obs. time: 40 31 52 48 54 37 42 51 37 44
% cal. time: 2 2 4 4 4 1 5 4 4 3
% slew time: 34 44 28 22 23 3 19 16 14 23
% idle time: 23 21 16 25 18 58 34 28 44 30
total # scans: 175 207 320 381 326 126 403 329 386 294
# scans/hour : 7 9 13 16 14 5 17 14 16 12
Avg scan (sec): 198 130 139 108 144 252 90 135 83 141
# data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16
# Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16
Total GBytes: 1249 968 1604 1480 1684 1142 1304 1601 1151 1354
Total GB(M5): 1111 860 1426 1315 1497 1015 1159 1423 1023 1203
# of tapes : 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: 9.0 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 10829.4
# OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE
| Ft Hh Ma Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz StnTotal
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Ft| 84 52 32 41 83 16 90 46 444
Hh| 81 31 51 42 66 39 77 471
Ma| 226 267 17 163 162 275 1243
Ny| 259 6 264 212 273 1303
On| 9 180 180 278 1265
Tc| 31 50 11 249
Ts| 168 220 1108
Wf| 201 1102
Wz| 1381
Number of 2-station scans: 315
Number of 3-station scans: 148
Number of 4-station scans: 72
Number of 5-station scans: 92
Number of 6-station scans: 107
Number of 7-station scans: 27
Number of 8-station scans: 0
Number of 9-station scans: 0
Total # of scans, observations: 761 4283
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Recording mode
Name Code
GEOSX SX
Recording mode setup for:
FORTLEZA HARTRAO MATERA NYALES20 ONSALA60 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
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Monitoring Sources
Source Min Max Actual #Num #Scans
1610-771 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0
0442+389 1.00 1.50 0.02 1 1
0047+023 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0
0202+319 1.00 1.50 1.56 67 11
0534-611 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0
1738+476 1.00 1.50 1.59 68 8
0805+046 1.00 1.50 0.07 3 3
0955+326 1.00 1.50 1.42 61 13
2208-137 1.00 1.50 0.16 7 7
1424+366 1.00 1.50 0.35 15 5
Total 5.18 222 48
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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
6 TIGOCONC 6.00
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Major Options
Subnet FtHhMaNyOnTcTsWfWz
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
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Tape types
ID Station Tape length Density Passes
Ft FORTLEZA Mark5A
Hh HARTRAO Mark5B
Ma MATERA Mark5A
Ny NYALES20 Mark5A
On ONSALA60 Mark5A
Tc TIGOCONC Mark5B
Ts TSUKUB32 K5
Wf WESTFORD Mark5A
Wz WETTZELL Mark5A
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SNR Targets
Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans
X-band (margin 0) S-band (margin 0)
Ft Hh Ma Ny On Tc Ts Wf Ft Hh Ma Ny On Tc Ts Wf
Hh 20 Hh 15
Ma 20 20 Ma 15 15
Ny 20 20 20 Ny 15 15 15
On 20 20 20 20 On 15 15 15 15
Tc 15 15 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 12 12
Ts 20 20 20 20 20 15 Ts 15 15 15 15 15 12
Wf 20 20 20 20 20 15 20 Wf 15 15 15 15 15 12 15
Wz 20 20 20 20 20 15 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 15 12 15 15