Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1608 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: R1608 Description IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Start: 2013-294-17:00:00 End: 2013-295-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2013294 (2013.81)( 16587 MJD, MON. 21 OCT.) Greenwich sidereal time: 19:01: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 13h 45.8m -10d 55.5 =========================================================== 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 Ai Hb Ke Kk Ma Tc Ww Wf Wz Yg 0537-441 13294-170000| 195 100 53 274 195 274| 1324+224 13294-170000| 189 189 179 108 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ai Hb Ke Kk Ma Tc Ww Wf Wz Yg 0727-115 13295-165214| 303 158 126 51 303 181| 1424-418 13295-165300| 43 43 | 1936-155 13295-165433| 190 190 | 1417+385 13295-165452| 145 145 | 2134+00 13295-165846| 43 43 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1608.skd for experiment R1608 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 4.9 Min = 0.0 Max = 67.0 (Baseline Ai-Wz on 1124-186) RMS = 10.1 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ai=AIRA Hb=HOBART12 Ke=KATH12M Kk=KOKEE Ma=MATERA Tc=TIGO Ww=WARK12M Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Yg=YARRA12M Ai Hb Ke Kk Ma Tc Ww Wf Wz Yg Avg % obs. time: 67 66 62 55 61 63 60 59 49 54 60 % cal. time: 2 3 3 3 4 2 2 3 4 3 3 % slew time: 5 9 8 18 23 3 7 14 11 8 11 % idle time: 24 21 26 23 11 31 30 23 35 35 26 total # scans: 179 274 258 265 303 166 196 300 335 234 251 # scans/hour : 7 11 11 11 13 7 8 13 14 10 10 Avg scan (sec): 324 208 207 179 174 329 265 169 127 199 217 # 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 TBytes: 2.1 2.0 1.9 1.7 1.9 2.0 1.9 1.8 1.5 1.7 1.9 Total TB(M5): 1.9 1.8 1.7 1.5 1.7 1.7 1.7 1.6 1.4 1.5 1.6 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ai Hb Ke Kk Ma Tc Ww Wf Wz Yg Total ------------------------------------------------------------ Ai| 80 101 69 62 0 60 28 77 84 561 Hb| 189 65 25 47 132 4 21 163 726 Ke| 63 38 25 105 4 36 178 739 Kk| 47 37 73 135 71 37 597 Ma| 51 2 127 263 42 657 Tc| 23 91 43 9 326 Ww| 13 2 94 504 Wf| 145 0 547 Wz| 38 696 Yg| 645 Number of 2-station scans: 440 Number of 3-station scans: 201 Number of 4-station scans: 119 Number of 5-station scans: 57 Number of 6-station scans: 42 Number of 7-station scans: 2 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Number of 9-station scans: 0 Number of 10-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 861 2999 Average X-band SNRs by baseline | Ai Hb Ke Kk Ma Tc Ww Wf Wz Yg AVG ----------------------------------------------------------- Ai| 28 33 26 33 - 31 26 35 24 30 Hb| 46 31 46 18 43 35 51 37 38 Ke| 35 47 19 42 33 54 41 41 Kk| 29 16 31 33 35 24 30 Ma| 26 58 56 111 40 70 Tc| 25 23 27 16 22 Ww| 35 65 33 37 Wf| 69 - 46 Wz| 43 72 Yg| 36 Average S-band SNRs by baseline | Ai Hb Ke Kk Ma Tc Ww Wf Wz Yg AVG ----------------------------------------------------------- Ai| 18 17 31 18 - 18 19 18 17 20 Hb| 25 40 19 15 24 19 20 26 25 Ke| 37 18 14 19 22 20 25 23 Kk| 29 21 29 35 32 25 32 Ma| 14 16 28 46 19 32 Tc| 13 15 14 15 15 Ww| 17 16 20 21 Wf| 33 - 28 Wz| 19 33 Yg| 23 =========================================================== Recording Mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: AIRA HOBART12 KATH12M KOKEE MATERA TIGOCONC WARK12M WESTFORD YARRA12M Mode Tot.Rate Tot.BandW #chan #bits Barrel Mk341:1 128 Mbits 256 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 1-bit channels recorded per sub-pass X S Total 10.000 6.000 16.000 Recording mode setup for: WETTZELL Mode Tot.Rate Tot.BandW #chan #bits Barrel Mk341:2 128 Mbits 256 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 1-bit channels recorded per sub-pass X S Total 10.000 6.000 16.000 =========================================================== Monitoring Sources Source Min Max Actual #Num #Scans 1021-006 1.00 1.50 1.50 45 12 0212+735 1.00 1.50 1.43 43 7 3C120 1.00 1.50 1.20 36 15 1706-174 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 0109+224 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 0812+367 1.00 1.50 0.57 17 13 1954+513 1.00 1.50 1.57 47 12 3C345 1.00 1.50 0.60 18 18 0035-252 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 2134+00 1.00 1.50 0.57 17 17 Total 7.44 223 94 =========================================================== 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 AiHbKeKkMaTcWwWfWzYg SkyCov Yes AllBlGood Yes MaxAngle 180.00 MinAngle 15.00 MinBetween 20 MinSunDist 4.00 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 1 AIRA 6.00 6 TIGOCONC 6.00 =========================================================== Tape types ID Station Tape length Density Passes Ai AIRA K5 Hb HOBART12 Mark5B Ke KATH12M Mark5B Kk KOKEE Mark5B Ma MATERA Mark5B Tc TIGOCONC Mark5B Ww WARK12M Mark5B Wf WESTFORD Mark5B Wz WETTZELL Mark5A Yg YARRA12M Mark5B =========================================================== SNR Targets Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans X-band (margin 0) S-band (margin 0) X-band (ast_margin 0) S-band (ast_margin 0) Ai Hb Ke Kk Ma Tc Ww Wf Wz Ai Hb Ke Kk Ma Tc Ww Wf Wz Hb 20 Hb 15 Ke 20 20 Ke 15 15 Kk 20 20 20 Kk 15 15 15 Ma 20 20 20 20 Ma 15 15 15 15 Tc 15 15 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 12 12 Ww 20 20 20 20 20 15 Ww 15 15 15 15 15 12 Wf 20 20 20 20 20 15 20 Wf 15 15 15 15 15 12 15 Wz 20 20 20 20 20 15 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 15 12 15 15 Yg 20 20 20 20 20 15 20 20 20 Yg 15 15 15 15 15 12 15 15 15