Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1847
Prepared by C. Thomas, NVI, Inc./GSFC
Refer to http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/program/descrip2018.html#r1
for the session purpose.
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----- Parameter listing --------------------------------------
Experiment: R1847 Description IVS-R1
Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN
Start: 2018-169-17:00:00 End: 2018-170-17:00:00
Current yyyyddd: 2018169 (2018.46) ( 18288 MJD, MON. 18JUN.)
Greenwich sidereal time: 10:47:32 (17:00:00 UT)
Sun's RA and DEC: 5h 48.7m 23d 24.7
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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.
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First observations
Observation listing from file ./r1847.skd for experiment R1847
Source Start DURATIONS
name yyddd-hhmmss Ht Ke Kk Ma Ny Kv Ww Wn Wz Yg
1057-797 18169-170000| 291 291 266|
3C418 18169-170000| 132 54 134 47 122 286 286 |
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Last observations
Source Start DURATIONS
name yyddd-hhmmss Ht Ke Kk Ma Ny Kv Ww Wn Wz Yg
0202+319 18170-165308| 65 100 100 |
1144-379 18170-165453| 43 43 |
2052-474 18170-165507| 288 288 288|
2309+454 18170-165532| 263 263 263 |
1243-072 18170-165712| 163 163 163 |
End of listing.
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SKED Summary from file ./r1847.skd for experiment R1847
(all scans with at least one subnet station)
Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 5.2
Min = 0.0 Max = 65.5 (Baseline Ma-Ny on 0237-027) RMS = 9.8
Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours).
Key: Ht=HART15M Ke=KATH12M Kk=KOKEE Ma=MATERA Ny=NYALES20
Kv=SEJONG Ww=WARK12M Wn=WETTZ13N Wz=WETTZELL Yg=YARRA12M
Ht Ke Kk Ma Ny Kv Ww Wn Wz Yg Avg
% obs. time: 57 70 55 52 62 55 58 64 54 67 59
% cal. time: 5 5 5 6 5 4 4 5 5 4 5
% slew time: 26 15 25 36 23 16 13 3 13 15 19
% idle time: 11 9 14 5 9 24 24 26 27 13 17
total # scans: 452 414 439 497 473 311 351 454 402 374 416
# scans/hour : 19 17 18 21 20 13 15 19 17 16 17
Avg scan (sec): 109 146 108 91 113 153 142 122 117 154 125
# data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16
# Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16
Total TB(M5): 1.58 1.94 1.52 1.44 1.71 1.52 1.60 1.77 1.50 1.85 1.64
# OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE
| Ht Ke Kk Ma Ny Kv Ww Wn Wz Yg Total
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Ht| 71 0 254 115 56 52 197 127 89 961
Ke| 116 26 40 121 219 35 30 284 942
Kk| 71 193 123 144 90 82 55 874
Ma| 259 66 0 353 190 35 1254
Ny| 118 16 265 151 23 1180
Kv| 76 87 99 98 844
Ww| 2 2 204 715
Wn| 134 34 1197
Wz| 36 851
Yg| 858
Number of 2-station scans: 675
Number of 3-station scans: 414
Number of 4-station scans: 216
Number of 5-station scans: 88
Number of 6-station scans: 24
Number of 7-station scans: 17
Number of 8-station scans: 1
Number of 9-station scans: 0
Number of 10-station scans: 0
Total number of scans: 1435
Total number of obs: 4838
Total integrated obs-time: 549327
Average obs-time: 113.5
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: | 785| 505| 488| 381| 452| 499| 314| 284| 201| 192| 165| 81| 72| 67| 65| 50| 33| 204
Average X-band SNRs by baseline
| Ht Ke Kk Ma Ny Kv Ww Wn Wz Yg AVG
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Ht| 36 - 50 55 31 29 53 77 46 51
Ke| 31 48 59 41 44 54 73 45 44
Kk| 29 44 38 34 36 45 26 37
Ma| 59 42 - 98 178 41 83
Ny| 52 59 82 123 52 69
Kv| 38 49 58 32 43
Ww| 43 58 40 40
Wn| 356 48 105
Wz| 58 145
Yg| 42
Average S-band SNRs by baseline
| Ht Ke Kk Ma Ny Kv Ww Wn Wz Yg AVG
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Ht| 20 - 23 27 19 19 34 35 26 27
Ke| 25 16 22 20 22 25 24 24 23
Kk| 24 32 27 29 37 31 27 29
Ma| 23 17 - 42 52 18 32
Ny| 21 23 41 43 22 31
Kv| 19 28 25 20 22
Ww| 22 19 22 23
Wn| 137 27 49
Wz| 23 54
Yg| 23
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Recording mode
Name Code
GEOSX SX
Recording mode for: HART15M KATH12M KOKEE MATERA NYALES20 SEJONG WARK12M WETTZ13N WETTZELL
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
8.00 MHz 1 16(*1) 16
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
1427+543 1.00 1.50 0.33 16 9
0026+346 1.00 1.50 0.33 16 16
0259+121 1.00 1.50 0.04 2 2
1722+401 1.00 1.50 0.21 10 10
0159+723 1.00 1.50 0.39 19 12
2136+141 1.00 1.50 1.65 80 12
1022+194 1.00 1.50 0.23 11 7
0812+367 1.00 1.50 1.49 72 30
2236-572 1.00 1.50 0.74 36 36
0823-223 1.00 1.50 0.35 17 9
Total 5.77 279 143
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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 HtKeKkMaNyKvWwWnWzYg
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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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 Ke Kk Ma Ny Kv Ww Wn Wz Ht Ke Kk Ma Ny Kv Ww Wn Wz
Ke 20 Ke 15
Kk 20 20 Kk 15 15
Ma 20 20 20 Ma 15 15 15
Ny 20 20 20 20 Ny 15 15 15 15
Kv 20 20 20 20 20 Kv 15 15 15 15 15
Ww 20 20 20 20 20 20 Ww 15 15 15 15 15 15
Wn 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 Wn 15 15 15 15 15 15 15
Wz 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 99 Wz 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 99
Yg 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 Yg 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15