Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1632
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: R1632 Description IVS-R1
Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN
Start: 2014-097-17:00:00 End: 2014-098-17:00:00
Current yyyyddd: 2014097 (2014.27) ( 16755 MJD, MON. 7APR.)
Greenwich sidereal time: 6: 3: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT)
Sun's RA and DEC: 1h 5.7m 6d 59.0
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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.
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First observations
Source Start DURATIONS
name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Ht Ma Ny On Tc Ts Wz Ys
0202+319 14097-170000| 393 240 167 290 393 129 165|
1243-072 14097-170000| 43 43 |
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Last observations
Source Start DURATIONS
name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Ht Ma Ny On Tc Ts Wz Ys
2059+034 14098-165053| 295 295 |
0727-115 14098-165522| 43 43 43 43|
0552+398 14098-165803| 43 43 43 43 43 43 |
1144+402 14098-165804| 43 43|
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SKED Summary from file ./r1632.skd for experiment R1632
(all scans with at least one subnet station)
Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 9.4
Min = 0.0 Max = 64.5 (Baseline Tc-Ts on 1639-062) RMS = 13.4
Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours).
Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Ht=HART15M Ma=MATERA Ny=NYALES20 On=ONSALA60
Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wz=WETTZELL Ys=YEBES40M
Ft Ht Ma Ny On Tc Ts Wz Ys Avg
% obs. time: 44 36 51 42 54 55 37 32 37 43
% cal. time: 2 3 4 5 4 2 5 5 5 4
% slew time: 36 15 28 24 24 4 18 12 35 22
% idle time: 17 44 16 28 17 38 40 50 22 31
total # scans: 205 275 380 434 368 195 389 412 394 339
# scans/hour : 9 11 16 18 15 8 16 17 16 14
Avg scan (sec): 184 114 115 85 127 243 81 68 81 121
# data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16
# Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16
Total TBytes: 1.4 1.1 1.6 1.3 1.7 1.7 1.1 1.0 1.2 1.3
Total TB(M5): 1.2 1.0 1.4 1.2 1.5 1.5 1.0 0.9 1.0 1.2
# OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE
| Ft Ht Ma Ny On Tc Ts Wz Ys Total
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Ft| 98 77 42 69 129 11 70 96 592
Ht| 180 111 151 75 71 176 186 1048
Ma| 264 331 47 182 338 324 1743
Ny| 283 18 294 294 266 1572
On| 40 191 328 305 1698
Tc| 45 39 60 453
Ts| 213 168 1175
Wz| 337 1795
Ys| 1742
Number of 2-station scans: 294
Number of 3-station scans: 76
Number of 4-station scans: 65
Number of 5-station scans: 90
Number of 6-station scans: 163
Number of 7-station scans: 76
Number of 8-station scans: 2
Number of 9-station scans: 0
Total number of scans: 766
Total number of obs: 5909
Total integrated obs-time: 508720
Average obs-time: 86.1
Histogram of observation durations
Dur: 25 50 75 100 125 150 175 200 225 250 275 300 325 350 375 400 425 450 475 500#Obs: | 2369| 1311| 719| 393| 405| 195| 163| 117| 77| 30| 24| 24| 15| 25| 16| 6| 4| 4| 12Average X-band SNRs by baseline
| Ft Ht Ma Ny On Tc Ts Wz Ys AVG
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Ft| 45 49 40 39 22 50 54 118 52
Ht| 53 37 37 22 58 59 122 60
Ma| 55 54 22 58 75 145 75
Ny| 54 19 77 72 131 73
On| 21 56 63 116 64
Tc| 23 23 46 25
Ts| 82 134 76
Wz| 177 89
Ys| 135
Average S-band SNRs by baseline
| Ft Ht Ma Ny On Tc Ts Wz Ys AVG
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Ft| 27 23 21 21 13 24 25 26 22
Ht| 29 24 23 16 36 32 32 28
Ma| 23 23 13 27 29 27 26
Ny| 22 15 35 28 25 26
On| 13 26 26 23 23
Tc| 14 13 12 13
Ts| 35 28 31
Wz| 32 29
Ys| 27
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Recording mode
Name Code
GEOSX SX
Recording mode setup for:
FORTLEZA
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) 32 270.00
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:
HART15M MATERA NYALES20 TIGOCONC TSUKUB32 YEBES40M
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) 16 320.00
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:
ONSALA60 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) 32 160.00
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
1441+252 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0
0025+197 1.00 1.50 0.08 5 5
0458+138 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0
0002-478 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0
1824-582 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0
1042+071 1.00 1.50 0.03 2 2
0302+625 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0
0812+367 1.00 1.50 1.61 95 17
1743+173 1.00 1.50 0.12 7 5
0534-611 1.00 1.50 0.02 1 1
Total 1.86 110 30
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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 FtHtMaNyOnTcTsWzYs
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
6 TIGOCONC 6.00
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Tape types
ID Station Tape length Density Passes
Ft FORTLEZA 8700feet (Thick ) 33333 (Low ) 14
Ht HART15M 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14
Ma MATERA 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14
Ny NYALES20 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14
On ONSALA60 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14
Tc TIGOCONC 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14
Ts TSUKUB32 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14
Wz WETTZELL 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14
Ys YEBES40M 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14
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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)
Ft Ht Ma Ny On Tc Ts Wz Ft Ht Ma Ny On Tc Ts Wz
Ht 20 Ht 15
Ma 20 20 Ma 15 15
Ny 20 20 20 Ny 15 15 15
On 20 20 20 20 On 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
Ys 20 20 20 20 20 15 20 20 Ys 15 15 15 15 15 12 15 15