Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1662 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: R1662 Description IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Start: 2014-321-17:00:00 End: 2014-322-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2014321 (2014.88) ( 16979 MJD, MON. 17NOV.) Greenwich sidereal time: 20:46:41 (17:00:00 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 15h 31.7m -19d 4.7 =========================================================== Important Station Information Hobart-12m was tagged along to this schedule file. =========================================================== 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 Ft Ht Hb Ke Ma Ny Ts Wz Yg 0727-115 14321-170000| 43 43 43| 3C418 14321-170000| 77 43 77 54 43 | 0003-066 14321-170155| 167 167 128| 1849+670 14321-170221| 244 244 174 69 126 | 0332-403 14321-170538| 65 77 77 43 77| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Ht Hb Ke Ma Ny Ts Wz Yg 1104-445 14322-165010| 173 309 309| 0202+149 14322-165246| 178 178 162 57 121 | 0010+405 14322-165608| 79 79 | 3C446 14322-165709| 52 46 52 43 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1662.skd for experiment R1662 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 8.1 Min = 0.0 Max = 180.0 (Baseline Ft-Ny on 1741-038) RMS = 15.0 Total time: 1438 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Ht=HART15M Hb=HOBART12 Ke=KATH12M Ma=MATERA Ny=NYALES20 Ts=TSUKUB32 Wz=WETTZELL Yg=YARRA12M Ft Ht Hb Ke Ma Ny Ts Wz Yg Avg % obs. time: 36 42 18 58 51 51 38 37 54 43 % cal. time: 3 5 2 5 4 5 6 5 4 4 % slew time: 35 23 4 13 31 22 25 13 12 20 % idle time: 26 29 75 24 12 21 31 45 28 33 total # scans: 260 399 134 391 374 403 512 400 358 359 # scans/hour : 11 17 6 16 16 17 21 17 15 15 Avg scan (sec): 118 91 114 128 119 110 64 79 131 105 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total TBytes: 1.1 1.3 0.6 1.8 1.6 1.6 1.2 1.1 1.7 1.3 Total TB(M5): 1.0 1.2 0.5 1.6 1.4 1.4 1.0 1.0 1.5 1.2 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Ht Hb Ke Ma Ny Ts Wz Yg Total ------------------------------------------------------- Ft| 195 9 1 136 76 31 122 10 580 Ht| 66 133 154 66 102 137 162 1015 Hb| 122 16 2 58 11 120 404 Ke| 48 32 193 50 324 903 Ma| 248 201 327 48 1178 Ny| 320 281 11 1036 Ts| 234 132 1271 Wz| 41 1203 Yg| 848 Number of 2-station scans: 383 Number of 3-station scans: 260 Number of 4-station scans: 232 Number of 5-station scans: 104 Number of 6-station scans: 29 Number of 7-station scans: 9 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Number of 9-station scans: 0 Total number of scans: 1017 Total number of obs: 4219 Total integrated obs-time: 363852 Average obs-time: 86.2 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: | 2289| 496| 317| 174| 205| 174| 177| 87| 87| 26| 22| 58| 45| 18| 5| 14| 2| 23Average X-band SNRs by baseline | Ft Ht Hb Ke Ma Ny Ts Wz Yg AVG ------------------------------------------------------ Ft| 37 17 31 42 40 66 52 24 43 Ht| 38 35 58 43 80 68 39 49 Hb| 40 22 23 75 22 41 43 Ke| 40 51 91 48 36 50 Ma| 81 92 108 32 78 Ny| 94 99 44 83 Ts| 124 76 94 Wz| 35 93 Yg| 43 Average S-band SNRs by baseline | Ft Ht Hb Ke Ma Ny Ts Wz Yg AVG ------------------------------------------------------ Ft| 24 16 15 18 16 20 20 21 20 Ht| 24 21 32 27 46 36 26 29 Hb| 18 15 16 33 15 21 22 Ke| 17 15 40 17 19 23 Ma| 21 28 30 19 25 Ny| 29 25 17 24 Ts| 36 40 34 Wz| 20 28 Yg| 24 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX 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 Recording mode setup for: HART15M HOBART12 KATH12M MATERA 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 =========================================================== Monitoring Sources Source Min Max Actual #Num #Scans 0951+268 1.00 1.50 0.07 3 3 OQ208 1.00 1.50 0.69 29 16 0745+241 1.00 1.50 0.62 26 12 1717+178 1.00 1.50 0.83 35 12 0202+149 1.00 1.50 0.69 29 12 0711+356 1.00 1.50 0.19 8 8 0010+405 1.00 1.50 0.38 16 12 1059+282 1.00 1.50 0.17 7 7 0636+680 1.00 1.50 0.97 41 11 1038+52A 1.00 1.50 1.21 51 15 Total 5.81 245 108 =========================================================== 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 FtHtHbKeMaNyTsWzYg 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 Ft FORTLEZA Mark5A Ht HART15M Mark5B Hb HOBART12 Mark5B Ke KATH12M Mark5B Ma MATERA 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) Ft Ht Hb Ke Ma Ny Ts Wz Ft Ht Hb Ke Ma Ny Ts Wz 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 Ts 20 20 20 20 20 20 Ts 15 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