Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1554
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: R1554 Description IVS-R1
Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN
Start: 2012-284-17:00:00 End: 2012-285-17:00:00
Current yyyyddd: 2012284 (2012.78) ( 16211 MJD, WED. 10OCT.)
Greenwich sidereal time: 18:18: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT)
Sun's RA and DEC: 13h 5.6m -6d 58.8
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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 Wz
0727-115 12284-170000| 43 43 |
1546+027 12284-170000| 214 95 169 128 214 94|
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Last observations
Source Start DURATIONS
name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Hh Ma Ny On Tc Ts Wz
1954-388 12285-164533| 221 221 |
2215+150 12285-164643| 196 296 210 296 56 150|
2318+049 12285-164949| 43 43|
2113+293 12285-165228| 116 83 116 43 59|
1357+769 12285-165404| 132 132 |
2059+034 12285-165513| 133 133 83|
2255-282 12285-165536| 96 96 |
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SKED Summary from file ./r1554.skd for experiment R1554
(all scans with at least one subnet station)
Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 6.1
Min = 0.0 Max = 65.5 (Baseline Tc-Ts on 2059+034) RMS = 11.6
Total time: 1437 minutes ( 24.0 hours).
Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Hh=HARTRAO Ma=MATERA Ny=NYALES20 On=ONSALA60
Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wz=WETTZELL
Ft Hh Ma Ny On Tc Ts Wz Avg
% obs. time: 38 37 59 51 61 37 40 39 45
% cal. time: 2 2 3 4 3 2 5 4 3
% slew time: 30 42 24 19 21 3 19 12 22
% idle time: 29 17 12 25 14 57 35 44 30
total # scans: 181 195 297 362 299 157 400 347 279
# scans/hour : 8 8 12 15 12 7 17 14 12
Avg scan (sec): 180 163 172 121 176 205 87 97 149
# data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16
# Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16
Total GBytes: 1173 1146 1844 1580 1893 1160 1252 1210 1407
Total GB(M5): 1042 1019 1639 1405 1683 1031 1113 1076 1251
# of tapes : 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
tape change times (hhmm):
Total number of tapes: 8.0 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 10008.4
# OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE
| Ft Hh Ma Ny On Tc Ts Wz StnTotal
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Ft| 92 35 17 25 96 14 30 309
Hh| 72 34 50 59 47 62 416
Ma| 229 261 9 168 259 1033
Ny| 254 0 277 251 1062
On| 7 182 267 1046
Tc| 39 8 218
Ts| 226 953
Wz| 1103
Number of 2-station scans: 350
Number of 3-station scans: 98
Number of 4-station scans: 76
Number of 5-station scans: 152
Number of 6-station scans: 30
Number of 7-station scans: 0
Number of 8-station scans: 0
Total # of scans, observations: 706 3070
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Recording mode
Name Code
GEOSX SX
Recording mode setup for:
FORTLEZA ONSALA60 TSUKUB32 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
Recording mode setup for:
HARTRAO MATERA NYALES20 TIGOCONC
Mode Tot.Rate Tot.BandW #chan #bits Barrel
Mk341:1 256.000 Mbits 128.000 MHz 14 1 NONE
Chan.BW #Subpasses Tracks(*fan) Tot.tracks Speed
8.00 MHz 1 16(*1) 16 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
0227-369 1.00 1.50 0.03 1 1
0422-380 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0
1504+377 1.00 1.50 1.47 45 7
0221+067 1.00 1.50 0.49 15 5
1306+360 1.00 1.50 0.26 8 8
1514+197 1.00 1.50 1.50 46 12
1459+480 1.00 1.50 0.36 11 6
0548+378 1.00 1.50 0.07 2 2
Total 4.17 128 41
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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 FtHhMaNyOnTcTsWz
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 Mark5B
Ny NYALES20 Mark5B
On ONSALA60 Mark5A
Tc TIGOCONC Mark5B
Ts TSUKUB32 K5
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 Ft Hh Ma Ny On Tc Ts
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
Wz 20 20 20 20 20 15 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 15 12 15