Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1562
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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Experiment: R1562 Description IVS-R1
Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN
Start: 2012-338-17:00:00 End: 2012-339-17:00:00
Current yyyyddd: 2012338 (2012.93) ( 16265 MJD, MON. 3DEC.)
Greenwich sidereal time: 21:51: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT)
Sun's RA and DEC: 16h 41.7m -22d 13.1
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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 Hb Ho Ke Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz
1741-038 12338-170000| 94 141 98 141|
OJ287 12338-170000| 142 130 159 159 142 43 |
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Last observations
Source Start DURATIONS
name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Hb Ho Ke Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz
0104-408 12339-164944| 280 280 |
1144-379 12339-165103| 127 127 |
2000+472 12339-165303| 266 266 |
0805+410 12339-165325| 212 274 91 274|
1133-032 12339-165547| 63 63 |
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SKED Summary from file ./r1562.skd for experiment R1562
(all scans with at least one subnet station)
Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 6.4
Min = 0.0 Max = 96.0 (Baseline Ny-Ts on 1351-018) RMS = 11.5
Total time: 1437 minutes ( 24.0 hours).
Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Hb=HOBART12 Ho=HOBART26 Ke=KATH12M Kk=KOKEE
Ny=NYALES20 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL
Ft Hb Ho Ke Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Avg
% obs. time: 40 37 46 47 51 56 38 41 53 50 46
% cal. time: 2 2 3 4 4 4 2 6 4 4 4
% slew time: 36 7 39 12 20 22 4 26 16 13 20
% idle time: 21 52 10 36 24 17 55 26 26 31 31
total # scans: 200 207 279 332 331 387 176 520 362 383 317
# scans/hour : 8 9 12 14 14 16 7 22 15 16 13
Avg scan (sec): 170 156 142 123 132 124 186 68 125 113 133
# data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16
# Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16
Total GBytes: 1226 1159 1431 1474 1577 1723 1181 1267 1630 1557 1422
Total GB(M5): 1090 1030 1272 1310 1401 1532 1050 1126 1449 1384 1264
# of tapes : 1.0 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: 10.0 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 12643.9
# OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE
| Ft Hb Ho Ke Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz StnTotal
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Ft| 0 17 0 31 33 117 24 101 53 376
Hb| 91 149 54 9 15 101 12 9 440
Ho| 202 64 24 36 126 10 17 587
Ke| 72 39 6 171 11 39 689
Kk| 177 61 234 155 149 997
Ny| 16 268 244 309 1119
Tc| 14 74 20 359
Ts| 176 235 1349
Wf| 225 1008
Wz| 1056
Number of 2-station scans: 452
Number of 3-station scans: 241
Number of 4-station scans: 179
Number of 5-station scans: 139
Number of 6-station scans: 22
Number of 7-station scans: 1
Number of 8-station scans: 0
Number of 9-station scans: 0
Number of 10-station scans: 0
Total # of scans, observations: 1034 3990
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Recording mode
Name Code
GEOSX SX
Recording mode setup for:
FORTLEZA HOBART26 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:
HOBART12 KATH12M KOKEE NYALES20 TIGOCONC TSUKUB32 WESTFORD
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
2216+178 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0
1013+127 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0
2005-489 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0
1610-771 1.00 1.50 0.38 15 15
1601+112 1.00 1.50 0.13 5 5
1038+52A 1.00 1.50 1.60 64 12
0437-454 1.00 1.50 0.10 4 4
0234+285 1.00 1.50 1.53 61 8
2353-686 1.00 1.50 0.03 1 1
1418+546 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0
Total 3.76 150 45
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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
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Major Options
Subnet FtHbHoKeKkNyTcTsWfWz
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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Weighted Station
7 TIGOCONC 6.00
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Tape types
ID Station Tape length Density Passes
Ft FORTLEZA Mark5A
Hb HOBART12 Mark5B
Ho HOBART26 Mark5A
Ke KATH12M Mark5B
Kk KOKEE Mark5B
Ny NYALES20 Mark5B
Tc TIGOCONC Mark5B
Ts TSUKUB32 K5
Wf WESTFORD Mark5B
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 Hb Ho Ke Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Ft Hb Ho Ke Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf
Hb 20 Hb 15
Ho 20 99 Ho 15 99
Ke 20 20 20 Ke 15 15 15
Kk 20 20 20 20 Kk 15 15 15 15
Ny 20 20 20 20 20 Ny 15 15 15 15 15
Tc 15 15 15 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 12 12 12
Ts 20 20 20 20 20 20 15 Ts 15 15 15 15 15 15 12
Wf 20 20 20 20 20 20 15 20 Wf 15 15 15 15 15 15 12 15
Wz 20 20 20 20 20 20 15 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 15 15 12 15 15