Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1560 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: R1560 Description IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Start: 2012-324-17:00:00 End: 2012-325-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2012324 (2012.89) ( 16251 MJD, MON. 19NOV.) Greenwich sidereal time: 20:56: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 15h 42.0m -19d 39.7 =========================================================== Important Station Information Urumqi was tagged along to this schedule file. =========================================================== 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 Ft Hh Ma Ny Tc Ts Ur Wf Wz 1749+096 12324-170000| 79 43 79 64 43 46| 1300+580 12324-170247| 106 106 43 83| 1639-062 12324-170315| 448 448 145 | 0529+483 12324-170551| 103 103 43 75| 0346-279 12324-170753| 46 46 | 3C418 12324-170944| 54 54 54 52 43| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Hh Ma Ny Tc Ts Ur Wf Wz 1334-127 12325-164505| 228 430 430 | 0133+476 12325-164919| 43 43| 0759+183 12325-164921| 46 46 | 0805+410 12325-165054| 89 89 | 1954-388 12325-165303| 69 69 57 | NGC6251 12325-165324| 385 100 385 385 309| 0716+714 12325-165630| 66 66 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1560.skd for experiment R1560 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 6.8 Min = 0.0 Max = 205.7 (Baseline Tc-Ur on 3C446 ) RMS = 12.8 Total time: 1438 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Hh=HARTRAO Ma=MATERA Ny=NYALES20 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Ur=URUMQI Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Ft Hh Ma Ny Tc Ts Ur Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 42 29 50 51 51 38 18 54 38 41 % cal. time: 2 3 4 5 2 5 2 4 4 3 % slew time: 35 46 30 23 4 21 15 15 13 23 % idle time: 20 21 15 20 42 35 65 26 44 32 total # scans: 205 219 339 402 199 417 130 319 363 288 # scans/hour : 9 9 14 17 8 17 5 13 15 12 Avg scan (sec): 176 114 128 110 220 79 118 147 91 131 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1297 898 1567 1595 1576 1191 554 1684 1195 1284 Total GB(M5): 1153 799 1393 1418 1401 1059 492 1497 1062 1142 # 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: 10274.1 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Hh Ma Ny Tc Ts Ur Wf Wz StnTotal ------------------------------------------------------- Ft| 93 58 34 112 12 3 119 57 488 Hh| 117 56 64 56 33 49 97 565 Ma| 243 25 178 103 154 295 1173 Ny| 4 291 112 186 270 1196 Tc| 50 1 97 23 376 Ts| 97 131 212 1027 Ur| 63 108 520 Wf| 173 972 Wz| 1235 Number of 2-station scans: 311 Number of 3-station scans: 170 Number of 4-station scans: 118 Number of 5-station scans: 93 Number of 6-station scans: 85 Number of 7-station scans: 2 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Number of 9-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 779 3776 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: FORTLEZA 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 Recording mode setup for: HARTRAO MATERA NYALES20 TIGOCONC URUMQI 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 =========================================================== Monitoring Sources Source Min Max Actual #Num #Scans 1013+127 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 1824-582 1.00 1.50 0.03 1 1 0958+346 1.00 1.50 0.26 10 10 0302-623 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 1022+194 1.00 1.50 0.05 2 2 1049+215 1.00 1.50 0.19 7 7 1659-621 1.00 1.50 0.16 6 6 1251-713 1.00 1.50 0.03 1 1 1619-680 1.00 1.50 0.34 13 13 1420-679 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 Total 1.06 40 40 =========================================================== Minor Options Astro Abs 3.00 BegScan Rel 1.00 EndScan Rel 1.00 NumObs Rel 1.00 StatIdle Abs 3.00 StatWt Abs 2.00 =========================================================== Major Options Subnet FtHhMaNyTcTsUrWfWz 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 =========================================================== Weighted Station 5 TIGOCONC 6.00 =========================================================== Tape types ID Station Tape length Density Passes Ft FORTLEZA Mark5A Hh HARTRAO Mark5B Ma MATERA Mark5B Ny NYALES20 Mark5B Tc TIGOCONC Mark5B Ts TSUKUB32 K5 Ur URUMQI Mark5B Wf WESTFORD Mark5A Wz WETTZELL Mark5A =========================================================== SNR Targets Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans X-band (margin 0) S-band (margin 0) Ft Hh Ma Ny Tc Ts Ur Wf Ft Hh Ma Ny Tc Ts Ur Wf Hh 20 Hh 15 Ma 20 20 Ma 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 Ur 20 20 20 20 15 20 Ur 15 15 15 15 12 15 Wf 20 20 20 20 15 20 20 Wf 15 15 15 15 12 15 15 Wz 20 20 20 20 15 20 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 12 15 15 15