Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1525
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: R1525 Description IVS-R1
Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN
Start: 2012-079-17:00:00 End: 2012-080-17:00:00
Current yyyyddd: 2012079 (2012.22) ( 16006 MJD, MON. 19MAR.)
Greenwich sidereal time: 4:50: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT)
Sun's RA and DEC: 23h 58.1m 0d 12.1
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There are no observations for Kokee and Wettzell from 18:15 U.T.
to 19:45 U.T. Kokee and Wettzell will participate in the
intensive session during this period.
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First observations
Source Start DURATIONS
name yyddd-hhmmss Ke Kk Ny Tc Wf Wz Yg
0059+581 12079-170000| 43 43 43 43 |
1057-797 12079-170000| 236 236 201|
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Last observations
Source Start DURATIONS
name yyddd-hhmmss Ke Kk Ny Tc Wf Wz Yg
0537-441 12080-163948| 484 484|
2319+317 12080-163959| 450 311 450 350 |
0201+113 12080-164625| 43 43 |
2113+293 12080-164811| 222 222 125 |
0727-115 12080-164828| 43 43|
1622-253 12080-165004| 115 115|
1424-418 12080-165238| 125 125|
2229+695 12080-165243| 102 143 143 110 |
0322+222 12080-165618| 59 59 53 |
1334-127 12080-165647| 43 43|
0307+380 12080-165753| 115 115 92 |
OJ287 12080-165829| 43 43|
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SKED Summary from file ./r1525.skd for experiment R1525
(all scans with at least one subnet station)
Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 6.9
Min = 0.0 Max = 62.6 (Baseline Ke-Wf on 2227-088) RMS = 12.5
Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours).
Key: Ke=KATH12M Kk=KOKEE Ny=NYALES20 Tc=TIGO Wf=WESTFORD
Wz=WETTZELL Yg=YARRA12M
Ke Kk Ny Tc Wf Wz Yg Avg
% obs. time: 58 52 53 68 65 53 55 58
% cal. time: 4 4 5 3 4 4 4 4
% slew time: 13 21 23 5 17 12 12 15
% idle time: 24 22 18 24 13 30 28 23
total # scans: 382 347 440 220 377 376 341 354
# scans/hour : 16 14 18 9 16 16 14 15
Avg scan (sec): 132 130 104 266 150 121 140 148
# data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16
# Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16
Total GBytes: 1814 1619 1647 2104 2031 1644 1722 1797
Total GB(M5): 1612 1439 1464 1870 1805 1462 1530 1598
# 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: 11182.6
# OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE
| Ke Kk Ny Tc Wf Wz Yg StnTotal
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Ke| 89 38 28 7 29 315 506
Kk| 191 87 171 99 51 688
Ny| 28 254 297 17 825
Tc| 134 65 30 372
Wf| 191 0 757
Wz| 24 705
Yg| 437
Number of 2-station scans: 556
Number of 3-station scans: 325
Number of 4-station scans: 89
Number of 5-station scans: 8
Number of 6-station scans: 0
Number of 7-station scans: 0
Total # of scans, observations: 978 2145
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Recording mode
Name Code
GEOSX SX
Recording mode setup for:
KATH12M KOKEE NYALES20 TIGOCONC WESTFORD WETTZELL YARRA12M
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
1049+215 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0
1038+52A 1.00 1.50 0.93 20 7
Total 0.93 20 7
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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
4 TIGOCONC 6.00
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Major Options
Subnet KeKkNyTcWfWzYg
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
Ke KATH12M Mark5A
Kk KOKEE Mark5A
Ny NYALES20 Mark5A
Tc TIGOCONC Mark5B
Wf WESTFORD Mark5A
Wz WETTZELL Mark5A
Yg YARRA12M Mark5B
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SNR Targets
Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans
X-band (margin 0) S-band (margin 0)
Ke Kk Ny Tc Wf Wz Ke Kk Ny Tc Wf Wz
Kk 20 Kk 15
Ny 20 20 Ny 15 15
Tc 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12
Wf 20 20 20 15 Wf 15 15 15 12
Wz 20 20 20 15 20 Wz 15 15 15 12 15
Yg 20 20 20 15 20 20 Yg 15 15 15 12 15 15