Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1581
Prepared by C. Thomas, NVI, Inc./GSFC
Refer to http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/program/descrip2013.html#r1
for the session purpose.
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----- Parameter listing --------------------------------------
Experiment: R1581 Description IVS-R1
Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN
Start: 2013-106-17:00:00 End: 2013-107-17:00:00
Current yyyyddd: 2013106 (2013.29) ( 16399 MJD, TUES 16APR.)
Greenwich sidereal time: 6:39: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT)
Sun's RA and DEC: 1h 39.7m 10d 21.2
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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 Ke Kk Ny Tc Ts Wz
3C274 13106-170000| 275 298 298 69 273|
3C446 13106-170000| 220 220 |
0727-115 13106-170519| 248 248 225|
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Last observations
Source Start DURATIONS
name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Hb Ke Kk Ny Tc Ts Wz
3C446 13107-162822| 243 222 243 |
2052-474 13107-162955| 164 164 |
0800+618 13107-163013| 86 54 86|
0133+476 13107-163307| 153 148 153|
1741-038 13107-163353| 45 45 43 |
1921-293 13107-163514| 43 43 |
2209+236 13107-163625| 89 89 43 |
0727-115 13107-163648| 53 53|
1334-127 13107-163829| 446 446 207 |
0925-203 13107-163922| 396 396|
1846+322 13107-163924| 43 43 |
1759-396 13107-164248| 43 43 |
3C418 13107-164525| 43 43 43 |
1034-293 13107-164648| 129 129 |
1053+815 13107-164707| 295 321 321|
1622-253 13107-164957| 187 187 154 |
1342+662 13107-165304| 161 161|
1424-418 13107-165349| 43 43 43 |
3C446 13107-165352| 100 100 |
1149-084 13107-165519| 122 122 |
0133+476 13107-165722| 137 145 145|
1921-293 13107-165811| 43 43 |
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SKED Summary from file ./r1581.skd for experiment R1581
(all scans with at least one subnet station)
Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 5.5
Min = 0.0 Max = 135.0 (Baseline Ny-Wz on 1741-038) RMS = 12.1
Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours).
Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Hb=HOBART12 Ke=KATH12M Kk=KOKEE Ny=NYALES20
Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wz=WETTZELL
Ft Hb Ke Kk Ny Tc Ts Wz Avg
% obs. time: 56 62 61 52 58 55 45 56 56
% cal. time: 2 3 3 3 4 2 6 4 3
% slew time: 26 9 10 17 20 3 25 11 16
% idle time: 15 25 25 27 16 39 24 28 25
total # scans: 170 270 292 290 363 156 480 337 294
# scans/hour : 7 11 12 12 15 7 20 14 12
Avg scan (sec): 284 199 180 156 139 305 81 143 185
# data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16
# Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16
Total GBytes: 1740 1935 1887 1628 1817 1713 1395 1738 1732
Total GB(M5): 1547 1720 1677 1447 1615 1523 1240 1545 1539
# 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: 12314.5
# OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE
| Ft Hb Ke Kk Ny Tc Ts Wz StnTotal
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Ft| 15 0 40 18 128 10 49 260
Hb| 214 76 9 26 117 9 466
Ke| 75 32 7 166 26 520
Kk| 119 37 194 79 620
Ny| 2 269 287 736
Tc| 4 25 229
Ts| 211 971
Wz| 686
Number of 2-station scans: 431
Number of 3-station scans: 318
Number of 4-station scans: 114
Number of 5-station scans: 16
Number of 6-station scans: 1
Number of 7-station scans: 0
Number of 8-station scans: 0
Total # of scans, observations: 880 2244
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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 KATH12M KOKEE NYALES20 TIGOCONC TSUKUB32
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
0422-380 1.00 1.50 0.18 4 4
1125+366 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0
IIIZW2 1.00 1.50 0.04 1 1
1608+243 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0
1432+200 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0
1215+303 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0
0358+210 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0
0309+411 1.00 1.50 0.13 3 3
0955+326 1.00 1.50 1.52 34 13
0159+723 1.00 1.50 0.76 17 8
Total 2.63 59 29
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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 FtHbKeKkNyTcTsWz
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
6 TIGOCONC 6.00
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Tape types
ID Station Tape length Density Passes
Ft FORTLEZA Mark5A
Hb HOBART12 Mark5B
Ke KATH12M Mark5B
Kk KOKEE Mark5B
Ny NYALES20 Mark5B
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 Hb Ke Kk Ny Tc Ts Ft Hb Ke Kk Ny Tc Ts
Hb 20 Hb 15
Ke 20 20 Ke 15 15
Kk 20 20 20 Kk 15 15 15
Ny 20 20 20 20 Ny 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