Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1643
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: R1643 Description IVS-R1
Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN
Start: 2014-188-17:00:00 End: 2014-189-17:00:00
Current yyyyddd: 2014188 (2014.52) ( 16846 MJD, MON. 7JUL.)
Greenwich sidereal time: 12:02:19 (17:00:00 UT)
Sun's RA and DEC: 7h 7.3m 22d 32.2
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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 Hb Ke Ma Ny On Wf Wz Yg Ys
0552+398 14188-170000| 52 43 52 52 43 43 43|
1954-388 14188-170000| 123 128 148 148 |
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Last observations
Source Start DURATIONS
name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Ht Hb Ke Ma Ny On Wf Wz Yg Ys
1039+811 14189-165642| 151 104 174 174 79 104|
1954-388 14189-165651| 128 148 148 |
1123+264 14189-165652| 149 149 |
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SKED Summary from file ./r1643.skd for experiment R1643
(all scans with at least one subnet station)
Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 7.8
Min = 0.0 Max = 77.8 (Baseline Ft-Ny on 0420-014) RMS = 12.6
Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours).
Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Ht=HART15M Hb=HOBART12 Ke=KATH12M Ma=MATERA
Ny=NYALES20 On=ONSALA60 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Yg=YARRA12M
Ys=YEBES40M
Ft Ht Hb Ke Ma Ny On Wf Wz Yg Ys Avg
% obs. time: 34 36 59 61 42 41 49 46 32 61 35 45
% cal. time: 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5
% slew time: 41 21 15 15 31 24 27 20 13 15 37 24
% idle time: 20 37 19 17 21 29 18 29 49 18 22 26
total # scans: 308 407 460 452 403 431 400 433 437 446 429 418
# scans/hour : 13 17 19 19 17 18 17 18 18 19 18 17
Avg scan (sec): 97 76 111 117 90 82 106 91 63 119 71 92
# data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16
# Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16
Total TBytes: 1.1 1.1 1.8 1.9 1.3 1.3 1.5 1.4 1.0 1.9 1.1 1.4
Total TB(M5): 1.0 1.0 1.6 1.7 1.2 1.1 1.4 1.3 0.9 1.7 1.0 1.2
# OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE
| Ft Ht Hb Ke Ma Ny On Wf Wz Yg Ys Total
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Ft| 163 3 0 135 99 123 191 136 1 156 1007
Ht| 109 104 177 98 129 84 166 130 176 1336
Hb| 400 14 6 8 17 10 393 4 964
Ke| 32 27 24 17 22 395 21 1042
Ma| 263 318 214 333 24 340 1850
Ny| 321 300 305 13 286 1718
On| 241 332 17 308 1821
Wf| 230 0 246 1540
Wz| 19 363 1916
Yg| 15 1007
Ys| 1915
Number of 2-station scans: 384
Number of 3-station scans: 402
Number of 4-station scans: 148
Number of 5-station scans: 59
Number of 6-station scans: 138
Number of 7-station scans: 84
Number of 8-station scans: 40
Number of 9-station scans: 1
Number of 10-station scans: 0
Number of 11-station scans: 0
Total number of scans: 1256
Total number of obs: 8058
Total integrated obs-time: 642603
Average obs-time: 79.7
Histogram of observation durations
Dur: 30 45 60 75 90 105 120 135 150 165 180 195 210 225 240 255 270 285 300
#Obs: | 3355| 809| 658| 735| 614| 422| 417| 338| 178| 139| 56| 81| 80| 83| 39| 12| 6| 36
Average X-band SNRs by baseline
| Ft Ht Hb Ke Ma Ny On Wf Wz Yg Ys AVG
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Ft| 37 21 - 40 34 34 35 43 27 95 46
Ht| 34 36 52 41 39 35 61 32 120 52
Hb| 36 40 39 36 39 48 28 97 33
Ke| 43 44 40 38 49 31 98 36
Ma| 71 63 56 88 29 167 83
Ny| 64 59 90 28 165 82
On| 50 73 27 140 72
Wf| 69 - 141 67
Wz| 35 208 100
Yg| 64 31
Ys| 155
Average S-band SNRs by baseline
| Ft Ht Hb Ke Ma Ny On Wf Wz Yg Ys AVG
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Ft| 24 18 - 18 19 17 20 21 15 21 20
Ht| 27 23 28 28 24 29 33 26 31 28
Hb| 20 17 19 16 19 19 21 18 21
Ke| 16 17 15 15 17 19 16 19
Ma| 31 28 28 37 16 34 30
Ny| 29 30 38 20 35 31
On| 27 32 16 30 28
Wf| 34 - 34 29
Wz| 18 41 35
Yg| 16 20
Ys| 33
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Recording mode
Name Code
GEOSX SX
Recording mode setup for:
FORTLEZA 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 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:
HART15M HOBART12 KATH12M MATERA NYALES20 WESTFORD YARRA12M 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 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
Total 0.00 0 0
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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 FtHtHbKeMaNyOnWfWzYgYs
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
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Tape types
ID Station Tape length Density Passes
Ft FORTLEZA Mark5A
Ht HART15M Mark5B
Hb HOBART12 Mark5B
Ke KATH12M Mark5B
Ma MATERA Mark5B
Ny NYALES20 Mark5B
On ONSALA60 Mark5B
Wf WESTFORD Mark5B
Wz WETTZELL Mark5A
Yg YARRA12M Mark5B
Ys YEBES40M Mark5B
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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 Hb Ke Ma Ny On Wf Wz Yg Ft Ht Hb Ke Ma Ny On Wf Wz Yg
Ht 20 Ht 15
Hb 20 20 Hb 15 15
Ke 20 20 20 Ke 15 15 15
Ma 20 20 20 20 Ma 15 15 15 15
Ny 20 20 20 20 20 Ny 15 15 15 15 15
On 20 20 20 20 20 20 On 15 15 15 15 15 15
Wf 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 Wf 15 15 15 15 15 15 15
Wz 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15
Yg 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 Yg 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15
Ys 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 Ys 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15