Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1568 Prepared by C. Thomas, NVI, Inc./GSFC Refer to http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/program/descrip2013.html#r1 for the session purpose. =========================================================== ----- Parameter listing -------------------------------------- Experiment: R1568 Description IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Start: 2013-015-17:00:00 End: 2013-016-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2013015 (2013.04) ( 16308 MJD, TUES 15JAN.) Greenwich sidereal time: 0:41: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 19h 50.8m -20d 59.9 =========================================================== 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. =========================================================== First observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Hb Kk Ny Tc Ts Wz Yg 0537-441 13015-170000| 43 43| 1823+568 13015-170000| 211 146 211 46 166 | 1324+224 13015-170138| 45 45 | 3C274 13015-170301| 99 99| 1923+210 13015-170412| 43 43 | 1741-038 13015-170524| 94 120 120 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Hb Kk Ny Tc Ts Wz Yg 3C418 13016-165237| 131 120 131 100 | 1034-293 13016-165440| 192 192| 1622-253 13016-165555| 187 187 | 0415+398 13016-165622| 171 59 171 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1568.skd for experiment R1568 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 7.1 Min = 0.0 Max = 120.0 (Baseline Tc-Ts on 0537-441) RMS = 14.3 Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Hb=HOBART12 Kk=KOKEE Ny=NYALES20 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wz=WETTZELL Yg=YARRA12M Ft Hb Kk Ny Tc Ts Wz Yg Avg % obs. time: 44 47 49 57 44 44 51 43 47 % cal. time: 3 4 4 5 3 7 5 4 4 % slew time: 39 11 22 22 5 28 14 11 19 % idle time: 14 37 24 15 47 21 30 41 29 total # scans: 233 332 372 413 228 578 403 304 357 # scans/hour : 10 14 16 17 10 24 17 13 15 Avg scan (sec): 162 123 114 118 168 65 110 122 122 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1362 1465 1520 1759 1381 1360 1590 1339 1472 Total GB(M5): 1210 1302 1351 1564 1227 1209 1413 1191 1308 # 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: 10467.9 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Hb Kk Ny Tc Ts Wz Yg StnTotal -------------------------------------------------- Ft| 2 35 32 173 13 63 2 320 Hb| 105 20 31 189 15 212 574 Kk| 154 64 269 113 56 796 Ny| 6 254 320 34 820 Tc| 14 29 2 319 Ts| 212 186 1137 Wz| 43 795 Yg| 535 Number of 2-station scans: 627 Number of 3-station scans: 285 Number of 4-station scans: 171 Number of 5-station scans: 14 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1097 2648 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: FORTLEZA 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 KOKEE NYALES20 TIGOCONC TSUKUB32 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 =========================================================== Monitoring Sources Source Min Max Actual #Num #Scans IIIZW2 1.00 1.50 0.04 1 1 2123-463 1.00 1.50 0.15 4 4 1352-104 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 0536+145 1.00 1.50 0.30 8 8 0110+495 1.00 1.50 0.60 16 10 1240+381 1.00 1.50 0.19 5 5 1717+178 1.00 1.50 1.32 35 14 0827+243 1.00 1.50 1.59 42 20 1823+568 1.00 1.50 1.47 39 13 0637-752 1.00 1.50 1.51 40 36 Total 7.18 190 111 =========================================================== 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 FtHbKkNyTcTsWzYg 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 Hb HOBART12 Mark5B Kk KOKEE Mark5B Ny NYALES20 Mark5B Tc TIGOCONC Mark5B Ts TSUKUB32 K5 Wz WETTZELL Mark5A Yg YARRA12M Mark5B =========================================================== SNR Targets Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans X-band (margin 0) S-band (margin 0) Ft Hb Kk Ny Tc Ts Wz Ft Hb Kk Ny Tc Ts Wz Hb 20 Hb 15 Kk 20 20 Kk 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 Wz 20 20 20 20 15 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 12 15 Yg 20 20 20 20 15 20 20 Yg 15 15 15 15 12 15 15