Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1556 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: R1556 Description IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Start: 2012-296-17:00:00 End: 2012-297-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2012296 (2012.81) ( 16223 MJD, MON. 22OCT.) Greenwich sidereal time: 19: 6: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 13h 50.5m -11d 21.8 =========================================================== 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. =========================================================== First observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Hb Ma Tc Ts Wf Wz Yg 0727-115 12296-170000| 43 43 43| 1639-062 12296-170000| 208 208 148 120 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Hb Ma Tc Ts Wf Wz Yg 0446+112 12297-164914| 355 56 355| 1622-253 12297-165002| 422 422 91 | 0119+115 12297-165110| 43 43 | 2318+049 12297-165233| 43 43 | 2000+472 12297-165412| 43 48 48 | 2214+350 12297-165536| 43 43 | 0016+731 12297-165702| 85 85 | OJ287 12297-165738| 43 43 | 0657+172 12297-165859| 43 43 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1556.skd for experiment R1556 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 7.8 Min = 0.0 Max = 67.5 (Baseline Tc-Ts on 3C274 ) RMS = 12.9 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Hb=HOBART12 Ma=MATERA Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Yg=YARRA12M Hb Ma Tc Ts Wf Wz Yg Avg % obs. time: 63 55 62 41 59 41 52 53 % cal. time: 4 5 2 6 4 5 4 4 % slew time: 12 29 3 23 17 13 11 16 % idle time: 20 10 31 29 18 39 32 26 total # scans: 375 420 210 523 385 446 320 382 # scans/hour : 16 18 9 22 16 19 13 16 Avg scan (sec): 145 113 256 67 133 80 140 133 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1961 1715 1938 1264 1849 1287 1614 1661 Total GB(M5): 1743 1524 1723 1124 1644 1144 1434 1477 # 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: 10336.2 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Hb Ma Tc Ts Wf Wz Yg StnTotal --------------------------------------------- Hb| 18 69 150 12 14 263 526 Ma| 31 250 223 378 23 923 Tc| 26 132 35 25 318 Ts| 178 277 131 1012 Wf| 229 0 774 Wz| 20 953 Yg| 462 Number of 2-station scans: 522 Number of 3-station scans: 332 Number of 4-station scans: 156 Number of 5-station scans: 3 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1013 2484 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: HOBART12 MATERA TIGOCONC YARRA12M 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 Recording mode setup for: 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 =========================================================== Monitoring Sources Source Min Max Actual #Num #Scans 1441+252 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 0002-478 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 1123+264 1.00 1.50 1.29 32 15 0516-621 1.00 1.50 0.36 9 9 Total 1.65 41 24 =========================================================== Tape types ID Station Tape length Density Passes Hb HOBART12 Mark5B Ma MATERA Mark5B 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) Hb Ma Tc Ts Wf Wz Hb Ma Tc Ts Wf Wz Ma 20 Ma 15 Tc 15 15 Tc 12 12 Ts 20 20 15 Ts 15 15 12 Wf 20 20 15 20 Wf 15 15 12 15 Wz 20 20 15 20 20 Wz 15 15 12 15 15 Yg 20 20 15 20 20 20 Yg 15 15 12 15 15 15