Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1630
Prepared by C. Thomas, NVI, Inc./GSFC
Refer to http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/program/descrip2014.html#r1
for the session purpose.
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Experiment: R1630 Description IVS-R1
Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN
Start: 2014-083-17:00:00 End: 2014-084-17:00:00
Current yyyyddd: 2014083 (2014.23) ( 16741 MJD, MON. 24MAR.)
Greenwich sidereal time: 5: 8: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT)
Sun's RA and DEC: 0h 14.6m 1d 34.8
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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 Ai Ft Ht Hb Ke Kk Ny Tc Ts Wz
1021-006 14083-170000| 506 95 352 440 506 120|
2209+236 14083-170000| 347 347 312 |
2131-021 14083-170637| 103 103 |
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Last observations
Source Start DURATIONS
name yyddd-hhmmss Ai Ft Ht Hb Ke Kk Ny Tc Ts Wz
2131-021 14084-164211| 104 104 |
0657+172 14084-164321| 146 96 146 73|
1749+096 14084-164517| 45 45 |
OJ287 14084-164636| 62 55 43 53 62|
0552+398 14084-164808| 49 49 43 |
1424-418 14084-164834| 53 53 43 43 43 |
0805+410 14084-164936| 148 148|
1144-379 14084-165023| 297 222 297 206 194 |
0716+714 14084-165247| 43 43|
1015+359 14084-165505| 178 178 58 135|
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SKED Summary from file ./r1630.skd for experiment R1630
(all scans with at least one subnet station)
Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 5.9
Min = 0.0 Max = 240.0 (Baseline Ft-Ts on 0657+172) RMS = 12.1
Total time: 1438 minutes ( 24.0 hours).
Key: Ai=AIRA Ft=FORTLEZA Ht=HART15M Hb=HOBART12 Ke=KATH12M
Kk=KOKEE Ny=NYALES20 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wz=WETTZELL
Ai Ft Ht Hb Ke Kk Ny Tc Ts Wz Avg
% obs. time: 47 50 53 56 58 49 55 54 55 52 53
% cal. time: 2 2 4 3 3 4 4 2 5 4 3
% slew time: 7 29 17 7 9 19 19 3 21 12 15
% idle time: 43 18 25 32 29 27 20 40 17 31 29
total # scans: 214 191 314 233 270 303 363 164 447 360 285
# scans/hour : 9 8 13 10 11 13 15 7 19 15 12
Avg scan (sec): 190 225 147 209 185 139 132 284 107 124 173
# 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: 1.5 1.5 1.7 1.8 1.8 1.5 1.7 1.7 1.7 1.6 1.6
Total TB(M5): 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.6 1.3 1.5 1.5 1.5 1.4 1.5
# OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE
| Ai Ft Ht Hb Ke Kk Ny Tc Ts Wz Total
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Ai| 2 39 63 97 85 96 0 168 70 620
Ft| 132 9 0 13 48 110 7 77 398
Ht| 45 39 0 107 73 65 155 655
Hb| 145 100 21 25 109 19 536
Ke| 98 49 8 176 40 652
Kk| 124 44 193 85 742
Ny| 22 177 264 908
Tc| 13 44 339
Ts| 137 1045
Wz| 891
Number of 2-station scans: 467
Number of 3-station scans: 243
Number of 4-station scans: 143
Number of 5-station scans: 94
Number of 6-station scans: 21
Number of 7-station scans: 4
Number of 8-station scans: 0
Number of 9-station scans: 0
Number of 10-station scans: 0
Total # of scans, observations: 972 3393
Average X-band SNRs by baseline
| Ai Ft Ht Hb Ke Kk Ny Tc Ts Wz AVG
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Ai| 26 33 32 34 30 37 - 150 38 65
Ft| 49 27 - 30 38 33 54 77 47
Ht| 42 50 - 44 28 91 68 53
Hb| 53 38 30 26 93 43 52
Ke| 39 36 24 107 43 60
Kk| 58 19 112 55 60
Ny| 19 129 112 80
Tc| 25 37 29
Ts| 130 118
Wz| 85
Average S-band SNRs by baseline
| Ai Ft Ht Hb Ke Kk Ny Tc Ts Wz AVG
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Ai| 16 23 19 18 30 23 - 66 21 34
Ft| 25 16 - 21 24 14 45 29 23
Ht| 23 22 - 28 14 50 35 29
Hb| 24 34 25 13 44 22 28
Ke| 33 23 13 45 22 30
Kk| 37 16 81 30 44
Ny| 18 55 41 37
Tc| 16 16 15
Ts| 49 57
Wz| 35
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Recording mode
Name Code
GEOSX SX
Recording mode setup for:
AIRA HART15M HOBART12 KATH12M KOKEE NYALES20 TIGOCONC TSUKUB32
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
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Monitoring Sources
Source Min Max Actual #Num #Scans
1021-006 1.00 1.50 1.83 62 12
1240+381 1.00 1.50 0.03 1 1
1659+399 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0
0438-436 1.00 1.50 0.18 6 6
NGC6251 1.00 1.50 0.12 4 4
1615+029 1.00 1.50 0.27 9 9
0524+034 1.00 1.50 0.29 10 10
1251-713 1.00 1.50 0.21 7 7
2131-021 1.00 1.50 1.44 49 17
0149+218 1.00 1.50 1.00 34 14
Total 5.36 182 80
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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 AiFtHtHbKeKkNyTcTsWz
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
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Weighted Station
8 TIGOCONC 6.00
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Tape types
ID Station Tape length Density Passes
Ai AIRA K5
Ft FORTLEZA Mark5A
Ht HART15M Mark5B
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)
X-band (ast_margin 0) S-band (ast_margin 0)
Ai Ft Ht Hb Ke Kk Ny Tc Ts Ai Ft Ht Hb Ke Kk Ny Tc Ts
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
Kk 20 20 20 20 20 Kk 15 15 15 15 15
Ny 20 20 20 20 20 20 Ny 15 15 15 15 15 15
Tc 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 12 12 12 12
Ts 65 20 20 20 20 20 20 15 Ts 60 15 15 15 15 15 15 12
Wz 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 15 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 12 15