Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1628 Prepared by C. Thomas, NVI, Inc./GSFC Refer to http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/program/descrip2014.html#r1 for the session purpose. =========================================================== ----- Parameter listing -------------------------------------- Experiment: R1628 Description IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Start: 2014-070-17:00:00 End: 2014-071-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2014070 (2014.19) ( 16728 MJD, TUES 11MAR.) Greenwich sidereal time: 4:17: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 23h 27.1m -3d 33.1 =========================================================== There are no observations for Wettzell from 18:15 U.T. to 19:45 U.T. Wettzell will participate in the intensive session during this period. =========================================================== First observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ai Ft Ht Hb Ke Ny Ts Wz Yg 1021-006 14070-170000| 71 263 300 43 114 300| 1324+224 14070-170000| 167 167 | 0537-441 14070-170229| 43 43 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ai Ft Ht Hb Ke Ny Ts Wz Yg 1424-418 14071-165138| 78 50 43 78 56| 0727-115 14071-165323| 43 48 53 53| 1244-255 14071-165334| 78 78 | 0606-223 14071-165449| 189 189 | 0656+082 14071-165452| 100 100 | 1243-072 14071-165529| 88 88 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1628.skd for experiment R1628 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 6.8 Min = 0.0 Max = 120.0 (Baseline Ht-Ke on 0133+476) RMS = 13.7 Total time: 1437 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ai=AIRA Ft=FORTLEZA Ht=HART15M Hb=HOBART12 Ke=KATH12M Ny=NYALES20 Ts=TSUKUB32 Wz=WETTZELL Yg=YARRA12M Ai Ft Ht Hb Ke Ny Ts Wz Yg Avg % obs. time: 28 34 55 53 50 54 46 51 48 47 % cal. time: 2 3 4 4 4 5 6 5 3 4 % slew time: 5 31 21 12 11 23 25 16 11 18 % idle time: 64 31 18 31 34 17 22 27 37 32 total # scans: 161 233 384 327 314 416 535 416 272 339 # scans/hour : 7 10 16 14 13 17 22 17 11 14 Avg scan (sec): 152 125 123 139 138 113 74 106 151 124 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total TBytes: 0.9 1.0 1.7 1.6 1.6 1.7 1.4 1.6 1.5 1.4 Total TB(M5): 0.8 0.9 1.5 1.5 1.4 1.5 1.3 1.4 1.3 1.3 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ai Ft Ht Hb Ke Ny Ts Wz Yg Total ------------------------------------------------------- Ai| 0 30 71 79 43 56 27 81 387 Ft| 171 3 0 84 20 135 1 414 Ht| 67 65 107 101 193 60 794 Hb| 208 16 172 11 211 759 Ke| 44 179 39 202 816 Ny| 243 299 11 847 Ts| 189 119 1079 Wz| 17 910 Yg| 702 Number of 2-station scans: 518 Number of 3-station scans: 295 Number of 4-station scans: 180 Number of 5-station scans: 70 Number of 6-station scans: 10 Number of 7-station scans: 1 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Number of 9-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1074 3354 Average X-band SNRs by baseline | Ai Ft Ht Hb Ke Ny Ts Wz Yg AVG ------------------------------------------------------ Ai| - 33 32 43 45 192 52 31 60 Ft| 42 23 - 52 61 53 38 48 Ht| 40 43 49 59 65 41 50 Hb| 50 44 64 49 42 48 Ke| 55 87 62 44 56 Ny| 71 85 58 69 Ts| 80 71 79 Wz| 51 72 Yg| 46 Average S-band SNRs by baseline | Ai Ft Ht Hb Ke Ny Ts Wz Yg AVG ------------------------------------------------------ Ai| - 17 17 17 17 105 18 16 29 Ft| 23 16 - 17 19 18 16 20 Ht| 26 21 26 34 31 25 27 Hb| 22 21 34 17 24 25 Ke| 18 36 17 20 24 Ny| 28 26 16 25 Ts| 29 36 36 Wz| 16 26 Yg| 24 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: AIRA HART15M HOBART12 KATH12M NYALES20 TSUKUB32 YARRA12M Mode Tot.Rate Tot.BandW #BBC #bits Barrel Mk341:1 256 Mbits 128 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 10.00 6.00 16.00 Recording mode setup for: FORTLEZA WETTZELL Mode Tot.Rate Tot.BandW #BBC #bits Barrel Mk341:2 256 Mbits 128 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 10.00 6.00 16.00 =========================================================== Monitoring Sources Source Min Max Actual #Num #Scans 1021-006 1.00 1.50 1.70 57 10 1443-162 1.00 1.50 0.12 4 4 0241+622 1.00 1.50 0.03 1 1 0400-319 1.00 1.50 0.12 4 4 3C345 1.00 1.50 0.54 18 18 0506+101 1.00 1.50 0.75 25 7 1251-713 1.00 1.50 0.09 3 3 1014+615 1.00 1.50 0.57 19 11 2131-021 1.00 1.50 1.34 45 10 0202+149 1.00 1.50 1.34 45 21 Total 6.59 221 89 =========================================================== 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 AiFtHtHbKeNyTsWzYg SkyCov Yes AllBlGood Yes MaxAngle 180.00 MinAngle 15.00 MinBetween 20 MinSunDist 4.00 MaxSlewTime 300 TimeWindow 4.00 MinSubNetSize 2 NumSubNet 1 Best 60 FillIn Yes FillMinSub 3 FillMinTime 120 FillBest 80 Add_ps 30.0 SNRWts Yes =========================================================== Tape types ID Station Tape length Density Passes Ai AIRA K5 Ft FORTLEZA Mark5A Ht HART15M Mark5B Hb HOBART12 Mark5B Ke KATH12M Mark5B Ny NYALES20 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) X-band (ast_margin 0) S-band (ast_margin 0) Ai Ft Ht Hb Ke Ny Ts Wz Ai Ft Ht Hb Ke Ny Ts Wz Ft 20 Ft 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 Ny 20 20 20 20 20 Ny 15 15 15 15 15 Ts 99 20 20 20 20 20 Ts 94 15 15 15 15 15 Wz 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 Yg 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 Yg 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15