Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1659 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: R1659 Description IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Start: 2014-300-17:00:00 End: 2014-301-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2014300 (2014.82) ( 16958 MJD, MON. 27OCT.) Greenwich sidereal time: 19:23:53 (17:00:00 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 14h 7.8m -12d 55.0 =========================================================== 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 Ht Hb Ke Kk Ny Wz Yg 0657+172 14300-170000| 252 224 147 178 252| 1741-038 14300-170000| 43 43 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ht Hb Ke Kk Ny Wz Yg 0537-441 14301-165252| 43 43 121 121| 2215+150 14301-165322| 43 43 43 | 2059+034 14301-165441| 117 117 82 | 0059+581 14301-165743| 57 43 49 57 | 1954-388 14301-165801| 69 69| 2229+695 14301-165916| 43 43 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1659.skd for experiment R1659 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 8.9 Min = 0.0 Max = 70.2 (Baseline Ht-Ny on 3C446 ) RMS = 15.6 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ht=HART15M Hb=HOBART12 Ke=KATH12M Kk=KOKEE Ny=NYALES20 Wz=WETTZELL Yg=YARRA12M Ht Hb Ke Kk Ny Wz Yg Avg % obs. time: 45 49 47 46 61 52 44 49 % cal. time: 4 3 3 5 6 6 3 4 % slew time: 20 11 10 23 23 14 11 16 % idle time: 30 36 39 26 9 27 41 30 total # scans: 366 302 279 390 511 491 289 375 # scans/hour : 15 13 12 16 21 20 12 16 Avg scan (sec): 106 139 147 103 103 92 132 117 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total TBytes: 1.4 1.5 1.5 1.4 1.9 1.6 1.4 1.5 Total TB(M5): 1.2 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.7 1.4 1.2 1.4 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ht Hb Ke Kk Ny Wz Yg Total --------------------------------------------- Ht| 104 85 0 176 208 140 713 Hb| 223 118 18 9 218 690 Ke| 107 47 33 222 717 Kk| 275 226 72 798 Ny| 434 24 974 Wz| 27 937 Yg| 703 Number of 2-station scans: 284 Number of 3-station scans: 447 Number of 4-station scans: 156 Number of 5-station scans: 13 Number of 6-station scans: 5 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total number of scans: 905 Total number of obs: 2766 Total integrated obs-time: 289373 Average obs-time: 104.6 Histogram of observation durations Dur: 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200 220 240 260 280 300 320 340 360 380 400 #Obs: | 1185| 211| 246| 183| 136| 161| 166| 119| 159| 66| 43| 52| 5| 9| 2| 9| 4| 10 Average X-band SNRs by baseline | Ht Hb Ke Kk Ny Wz Yg AVG -------------------------------------------- Ht| 31 30 - 29 37 34 32 Hb| 41 27 36 34 39 36 Ke| 29 35 37 37 36 Kk| 30 30 21 29 Ny| 55 30 41 Wz| 30 43 Yg| 35 Average S-band SNRs by baseline | Ht Hb Ke Kk Ny Wz Yg AVG -------------------------------------------- Ht| 21 21 - 18 22 24 21 Hb| 19 24 15 15 20 20 Ke| 27 16 16 21 21 Kk| 23 22 25 24 Ny| 24 16 22 Wz| 18 22 Yg| 22 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: HART15M HOBART12 KATH12M KOKEE NYALES20 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: 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 0834+250 1.00 1.50 0.58 16 8 1147+245 1.00 1.50 1.27 35 15 0954+658 1.00 1.50 1.59 44 17 1637+574 1.00 1.50 0.47 13 11 1243-160 1.00 1.50 0.04 1 1 1842+681 1.00 1.50 1.23 34 14 1420-679 1.00 1.50 0.25 7 7 0334-546 1.00 1.50 0.33 9 9 1042+071 1.00 1.50 0.22 6 2 0400-319 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 Total 5.97 165 84 =========================================================== 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 HtHbKeKkNyWzYg 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 =========================================================== Weighted Station =========================================================== Tape types ID Station Tape length Density Passes Ht HART15M Mark5B Hb HOBART12 Mark5B Ke KATH12M Mark5B Kk KOKEE Mark5B Ny NYALES20 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) Ht Hb Ke Kk Ny Wz Ht Hb Ke Kk Ny Wz Hb 20 Hb 15 Ke 20 20 Ke 15 15 Kk 20 20 20 Kk 15 15 15 Ny 20 20 20 20 Ny 15 15 15 15 Wz 20 20 20 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 15 Yg 20 20 20 20 20 20 Yg 15 15 15 15 15 15