Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1529 Prepared by C. Thomas, NVI, Inc./GSFC Refer to http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/program/descrip2012.html#r1 for the session purpose. =========================================================== ----- Parameter listing -------------------------------------- Experiment: R1529 Description IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Start: 2012-107-17:00:00 End: 2012-108-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2012107 (2012.29) ( 16034 MJD, MON. 16APR.) Greenwich sidereal time: 6:40: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 1h 40.6m 10d 26.4 =========================================================== Important Station Information Westford was tagged along to this schedule file. Tsukuba's X-band SEFD was doubled for this session. The X-band SEFD was changed from 320 to 640. =========================================================== 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. =========================================================== First observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Ke Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Yg 0727-115 12107-170000| 51 51 46 | 1749+096 12107-170000| 49 51 43 51| 1324+224 12107-170156| 80 80 49 64 | 0332-403 12107-170321| 238 238 | 1034-293 12107-170353| 151 151| 2000+472 12107-170428| 90 81 43 90 | 0016+731 12107-170642| 61 70 43 70 | 0537-441 12107-170827| 43 43 | 1546+027 12107-170907| 248 248| 1123+264 12107-170938| 187 187 112 134 | 0800+618 12107-171336| 365 269 365 194 136 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Ke Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Yg 0133+476 12108-165253| 43 43 43 43 | 1424-418 12108-165314| 124 43 124| 0134+311 12108-165412| 162 162 | 1623+578 12108-165530| 166 166 | 0537-441 12108-165608| 43 43 | 1057-797 12108-165611| 43 43| 2052-474 12108-165730| 74 74| 0656+082 12108-165838| 74 74 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1529.skd for experiment R1529 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 5.5 Min = 0.0 Max = 66.5 (Baseline Tc-Ts on 1749+096) RMS = 11.7 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Ke=KATH12M Kk=KOKEE Ny=NYALES20 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Yg=YARRA12M Ft Ke Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Yg Avg % obs. time: 36 53 50 58 43 45 17 50 42 44 % cal. time: 3 4 4 5 2 6 2 4 3 4 % slew time: 38 11 20 22 4 25 6 13 10 17 % idle time: 22 31 26 14 50 23 75 31 44 36 total # scans: 220 347 340 429 204 525 132 387 288 319 # scans/hour : 9 14 14 18 9 22 6 16 12 13 Avg scan (sec): 142 132 126 116 180 73 108 112 125 123 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1122 1650 1540 1798 1322 1386 514 1567 1294 1355 Total GB(M5): 998 1467 1369 1598 1175 1232 457 1393 1151 1204 # 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: 10838.9 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Ke Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Yg StnTotal ------------------------------------------------------- Ft| 6 42 50 157 11 78 63 12 419 Ke| 82 53 31 174 4 35 234 619 Kk| 178 58 242 74 131 38 845 Ny| 23 299 80 336 21 1040 Tc| 10 63 20 26 388 Ts| 42 239 126 1143 Wf| 70 0 411 Wz| 25 919 Yg| 482 Number of 2-station scans: 476 Number of 3-station scans: 281 Number of 4-station scans: 179 Number of 5-station scans: 65 Number of 6-station scans: 6 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Number of 9-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1007 3133 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: FORTLEZA KATH12M KOKEE NYALES20 TIGOCONC TSUKUB32 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 =========================================================== Monitoring Sources Source Min Max Actual #Num #Scans 2216+178 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 1428+370 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 0442+389 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 1550-242 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 0729+259 1.00 1.50 0.77 24 14 1659+399 1.00 1.50 0.22 7 7 1123+264 1.00 1.50 1.40 44 13 1824-582 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 2000+148 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 0434-188 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 Total 2.39 75 34 =========================================================== 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 5 TIGOCONC 6.00 =========================================================== Major Options Subnet FtKeKkNyTcTsWfWzYg 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 Ft FORTLEZA Mark5A Ke KATH12M Mark5A Kk KOKEE Mark5A Ny NYALES20 Mark5A Tc TIGOCONC Mark5B Ts TSUKUB32 K5 Wf WESTFORD Mark5A Wz WETTZELL Mark5A Yg YARRA12M Mark5B =========================================================== SNR Targets Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans X-band (margin 0) S-band (margin 0) Ft Ke Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Ft Ke Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Ke 20 Ke 15 Kk 20 20 Kk 15 15 Ny 20 20 20 Ny 15 15 15 Tc 15 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 12 Ts 20 20 20 20 15 Ts 15 15 15 15 12 Wf 20 20 20 20 15 20 Wf 15 15 15 15 12 15 Wz 20 20 20 20 15 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 12 15 15 Yg 20 20 20 20 15 20 20 20 Yg 15 15 15 15 12 15 15 15