Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1663
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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----- Parameter listing --------------------------------------
Experiment: R1663 Description IVS-R1
Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN
Start: 2014-328-17:00:00 End: 2014-329-17:00:00
Current yyyyddd: 2014328 (2014.90) ( 16986 MJD, MON. 24NOV.)
Greenwich sidereal time: 21:14:17 (17:00:00 UT)
Sun's RA and DEC: 16h 1.0m -20d 37.5
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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 Hh Ma Ny On Ts Wz Ys
1803+784 14328-170000| 61 61 43 61 43 43 43|
0403-132 14328-170200| 69 69 |
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Last observations
Source Start DURATIONS
name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Hh Ma Ny On Ts Wz Ys
1726+455 14329-165532| 206 206 117 205 98 112|
0403-132 14329-165642| 69 69 |
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SKED Summary from file ./r1663.skd for experiment R1663
(all scans with at least one subnet station)
Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 9.2
Min = 0.0 Max = 160.0 (Baseline Ts-Wz on 1706-174) RMS = 14.1
Total time: 1438 minutes ( 24.0 hours).
Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Hh=HARTRAO Ma=MATERA Ny=NYALES20 On=ONSALA60
Ts=TSUKUB32 Wz=WETTZELL Ys=YEBES40M
Ft Hh Ma Ny On Ts Wz Ys Avg
% obs. time: 28 26 45 45 49 33 31 35 37
% cal. time: 2 3 4 5 4 5 4 4 4
% slew time: 30 46 27 23 28 22 11 33 28
% idle time: 39 24 23 25 18 38 52 27 31
total # scans: 203 220 350 435 366 470 384 372 350
# scans/hour : 8 9 15 18 15 20 16 16 15
Avg scan (sec): 120 104 112 90 115 61 71 80 93
# data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16
# Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16
Total TBytes: 0.9 0.8 1.4 1.4 1.5 1.0 1.0 1.1 1.1
Total TB(M5): 0.8 0.7 1.2 1.3 1.3 0.9 0.9 1.0 1.0
# OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE
| Ft Hh Ma Ny On Ts Wz Ys Total
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Ft| 132 104 51 80 39 89 125 620
Hh| 99 31 64 67 85 101 579
Ma| 249 301 231 307 298 1589
Ny| 306 406 278 244 1565
On| 279 323 284 1637
Ts| 274 231 1527
Wz| 321 1677
Ys| 1604
Number of 2-station scans: 258
Number of 3-station scans: 82
Number of 4-station scans: 65
Number of 5-station scans: 52
Number of 6-station scans: 191
Number of 7-station scans: 52
Number of 8-station scans: 1
Total number of scans: 701
Total number of obs: 5399
Total integrated obs-time: 397513
Average obs-time: 73.6
Histogram of observation durations
Dur: 25 50 75 100 125 150 175 200 225 250 275 300 325 350 375 400 425 450
#Obs: | 3022| 818| 537| 280| 278| 144| 121| 61| 24| 30| 27| 21| 16| 9| 2| 1| 8Average X-band SNRs by baseline
| Ft Hh Ma Ny On Ts Wz Ys AVG
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Ft| 38 46 39 41 52 60 115 59
Hh| 62 29 48 50 77 152 70
Ma| 61 56 76 85 162 85
Ny| 51 83 79 155 81
On| 64 68 133 71
Ts| 103 186 95
Wz| 213 106
Ys| 165
Average S-band SNRs by baseline
| Ft Hh Ma Ny On Ts Wz Ys AVG
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Ft| 23 18 17 17 20 22 21 20
Hh| 27 21 22 27 30 31 26
Ma| 26 24 31 33 31 28
Ny| 23 37 32 30 30
On| 29 28 27 26
Ts| 41 34 34
Wz| 39 34
Ys| 31
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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:
HARTRAO MATERA NYALES20 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 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
1049+215 1.00 1.50 0.13 7 7
1725+123 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0
0149+218 1.00 1.50 0.37 20 18
2029+121 1.00 1.50 1.69 91 12
0722+145 1.00 1.50 0.65 35 6
0334-546 1.00 1.50 0.13 7 7
0234-301 1.00 1.50 0.02 1 1
1423+146 1.00 1.50 1.00 54 11
0342+147 1.00 1.50 0.04 2 2
2220-351 1.00 1.50 0.07 4 4
Total 4.09 221 68
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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 FtHhMaNyOnTsWzYs
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
Hh HARTRAO Mark5B
Ma MATERA Mark5B
Ny NYALES20 Mark5B
On ONSALA60 Mark5B
Ts TSUKUB32 K5
Wz WETTZELL Mark5A
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 Hh Ma Ny On Ts Wz Ft Hh Ma Ny On Ts Wz
Hh 20 Hh 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
Ts 20 20 20 20 20 Ts 15 15 15 15 15
Wz 20 20 20 20 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 15 15
Ys 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 Ys 15 15 15 15 15 15 15