Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1546
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: R1546 Description IVS-R1
Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN
Start: 2012-226-17:00:00 End: 2012-227-17:00:00
Current yyyyddd: 2012226 (2012.62) ( 16153 MJD, MON. 13AUG.)
Greenwich sidereal time: 14:30: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT)
Sun's RA and DEC: 9h 34.9m 14d 23.3
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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 Ft Hh Kk On Tc Ts Wf Wz Ys
0059+581 12226-170000| 43 43 43 43 43 43|
1057-797 12226-170000| 99 108 108 |
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Last observations
Source Start DURATIONS
name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Hh Kk On Tc Ts Wf Wz Ys
0454-234 12227-164833| 270 270 |
1800+440 12227-164953| 240 157 164 240|
1920-211 12227-165323| 43 43 |
0800+618 12227-165600| 218 199 164 185 218|
1639-062 12227-165650| 46 46 |
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SKED Summary from file ./r1546.skd for experiment R1546
(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 = 62.6 (Baseline Tc-Ts on 1424-418) RMS = 11.5
Total time: 1438 minutes ( 24.0 hours).
Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Hh=HARTRAO Kk=KOKEE On=ONSALA60 Tc=TIGO
Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Ys=YEBES40M
Ft Hh Kk On Tc Ts Wf Wz Ys Avg
% obs. time: 43 25 50 52 43 38 53 42 45 44
% cal. time: 2 2 4 4 2 5 4 4 4 4
% slew time: 31 45 19 24 4 20 15 12 32 23
% idle time: 23 27 26 19 50 36 27 41 18 30
total # scans: 197 213 354 339 194 462 335 382 365 315
# scans/hour : 8 9 15 14 8 19 14 16 15 13
Avg scan (sec): 188 103 121 133 193 71 137 94 107 126
# data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16
# Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16
Total GBytes: 1334 788 1543 1622 1347 1174 1648 1298 1408 1351
Total GB(M5): 1186 700 1371 1442 1198 1044 1464 1153 1252 1201
# 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: 10810.1
# OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE
| Ft Hh Kk On Tc Ts Wf Wz Ys StnTotal
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Ft| 83 43 40 102 26 86 49 65 494
Hh| 0 60 62 60 23 70 81 439
Kk| 115 81 251 169 130 115 904
On| 0 214 191 278 270 1168
Tc| 18 47 2 13 325
Ts| 183 257 211 1220
Wf| 208 209 1116
Wz| 302 1296
Ys| 1266
Number of 2-station scans: 389
Number of 3-station scans: 164
Number of 4-station scans: 121
Number of 5-station scans: 101
Number of 6-station scans: 83
Number of 7-station scans: 12
Number of 8-station scans: 0
Number of 9-station scans: 0
Total # of scans, observations: 870 4114
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Recording mode
Name Code
GEOSX SX
Recording mode setup for:
FORTLEZA HARTRAO KOKEE ONSALA60 TIGOCONC TSUKUB32 WESTFORD WETTZELL
YEBES40M
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
2216+178 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0
1327+504 1.00 1.50 0.15 6 6
0949+354 1.00 1.50 0.02 1 1
0010+405 1.00 1.50 0.29 12 5
1604-333 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0
1147+245 1.00 1.50 0.88 36 17
0234-301 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0
0805+046 1.00 1.50 0.07 3 3
1502+106 1.00 1.50 1.48 61 14
1800+440 1.00 1.50 1.09 45 15
Total 3.99 164 61
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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
5 TIGOCONC 6.00
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Major Options
Subnet FtHhKkOnTcTsWfWzYs
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
Kk KOKEE Mark5A
On ONSALA60 Mark5A
Tc TIGOCONC Mark5B
Ts TSUKUB32 K5
Wf WESTFORD Mark5A
Wz WETTZELL Mark5A
Ys YEBES40M 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 Kk On Tc Ts Wf Wz Ft Hh Kk On Tc Ts Wf Wz
Hh 20 Hh 15
Kk 20 20 Kk 15 15
On 20 20 20 On 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
Ys 20 20 20 20 15 20 20 20 Ys 15 15 15 15 12 15 15 15