Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1598
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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Experiment: R1598 Description IVS-R1
Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN
Start: 2013-224-17:00:00 End: 2013-225-17:00:00
Current yyyyddd: 2013224 (2013.61) ( 16517 MJD, MON. 12AUG.)
Greenwich sidereal time: 14:25: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT)
Sun's RA and DEC: 9h 30.2m 14d 46.1
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First observations
Source Start DURATIONS
name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Hh Ht Hb Ke On Tc Wf Yg
1124-186 13224-170000| 168 72 59 168 77 |
1921-293 13224-170000| 43 43 43|
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Last observations
Source Start DURATIONS
name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Hh Ht Hb Ke On Tc Wf Yg
1124-186 13225-164830| 168 168 |
CTA26 13225-165346| 81 69 81|
1546+027 13225-165437| 132 132 |
1741-038 13225-165600| 70 70|
1803+784 13225-165738| 43 43 |
1921-293 13225-165805| 58 54 58 |
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SKED Summary from file ./r1598.skd for experiment R1598
(all scans with at least one subnet station)
Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 5.8
Min = 0.0 Max = 53.3 (Baseline Ft-Wf on 1424-418) RMS = 11.5
Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours).
Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Hh=HARTRAO Ht=HART15M Hb=HOBART12 Ke=KATH12M
On=ONSALA60 Tc=TIGO Wf=WESTFORD Yg=YARRA12M
Ft Hh Ht Hb Ke On Tc Wf Yg Avg
% obs. time: 40 36 39 61 62 46 40 47 51 47
% cal. time: 2 3 4 4 4 3 2 3 4 3
% slew time: 39 52 17 11 12 19 4 15 11 21
% idle time: 17 8 40 23 21 31 53 34 33 29
total # scans: 215 280 320 326 344 263 168 302 320 282
# scans/hour : 9 12 13 14 14 11 7 13 13 12
Avg scan (sec): 162 112 105 161 155 151 208 134 137 146
# data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16
# Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16
Total TBytes: 1.3 1.1 1.2 1.9 1.9 1.4 1.3 1.5 1.6 1.5
Total TB(M5): 1.1 1.0 1.1 1.7 1.7 1.3 1.1 1.3 1.4 1.3
# OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE
| Ft Hh Ht Hb Ke On Tc Wf Yg Total
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Ft| 92 103 9 0 76 120 133 3 536
Hh| 264 36 38 109 48 64 53 704
Ht| 52 55 122 56 76 68 796
Hb| 288 4 27 9 256 681
Ke| 11 4 6 295 697
On| 31 182 12 547
Tc| 97 0 383
Wf| 0 567
Yg| 687
Number of 2-station scans: 380
Number of 3-station scans: 341
Number of 4-station scans: 81
Number of 5-station scans: 67
Number of 6-station scans: 16
Number of 7-station scans: 0
Number of 8-station scans: 0
Number of 9-station scans: 0
Total # of scans, observations: 885 2799
Average X-band SNRs by baseline
| Ft Hh Ht Hb Ke On Tc Wf Yg AVG
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Ft| 48 47 27 - 38 29 46 31 41
Hh| 100 37 37 38 24 39 34 61
Ht| 34 33 36 23 38 31 57
Hb| 38 29 26 25 30 34
Ke| 28 25 31 32 35
On| 20 39 26 36
Tc| 20 - 24
Wf| - 37
Yg| 31
Average S-band SNRs by baseline
| Ft Hh Ht Hb Ke On Tc Wf Yg AVG
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Ft| 28 31 15 - 20 15 27 15 24
Hh| 67 24 19 23 15 29 22 40
Ht| 26 20 24 18 30 25 39
Hb| 23 21 12 17 24 23
Ke| 19 12 23 20 21
On| 15 22 17 22
Tc| 14 - 15
Wf| - 24
Yg| 22
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Recording mode
Name Code
GEOSX SX
Recording mode setup for:
FORTLEZA ONSALA60
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 HART15M HOBART12 KATH12M TIGOCONC WESTFORD 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
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Monitoring Sources
Source Min Max Actual #Num #Scans
2005-489 1.00 1.50 0.29 8 8
0530-727 1.00 1.50 0.11 3 3
1815-553 1.00 1.50 0.21 6 6
1831-711 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0
0522-611 1.00 1.50 0.04 1 1
0723+219 1.00 1.50 0.18 5 5
1637+574 1.00 1.50 1.07 30 17
1743+173 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0
2150+173 1.00 1.50 0.32 9 9
0235+164 1.00 1.50 0.93 26 13
Total 3.14 88 62
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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 FtHhHtHbKeOnTcWfYg
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
Hh HARTRAO Mark5B
Ht HART15M Mark5B
Hb HOBART12 Mark5B
Ke KATH12M Mark5B
On ONSALA60 Mark5A
Tc TIGOCONC Mark5B
Wf WESTFORD Mark5B
Yg YARRA12M Mark5B
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SNR Targets
Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans
X-band (margin 0) S-band (margin 0)
Ft Hh Ht Hb Ke On Tc Wf Ft Hh Ht Hb Ke On Tc Wf
Hh 20 Hh 15
Ht 20 20 Ht 15 15
Hb 20 20 20 Hb 15 15 15
Ke 20 20 20 20 Ke 15 15 15 15
On 20 20 20 20 20 On 15 15 15 15 15
Tc 15 15 15 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 12 12 12
Wf 20 20 20 20 20 20 15 Wf 15 15 15 15 15 15 12
Yg 20 20 20 20 20 20 15 20 Yg 15 15 15 15 15 15 12 15