Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r11022
Prepared by C. Thomas, NVI, Inc./GSFC
Refer to http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/program/descrip2021.html#r1
for the session purpose.
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Experiment: R11022 Description IVS-R1
Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN
Start: 2021-298-17:00:00 End: 2021-299-17:00:00
Current yyyyddd: 2021298 (2021.82) ( 19513 MJD, MON. 25OCT.)
Greenwich sidereal time: 19:17:12 (17:00:00 UT)
Sun's RA and DEC: 14h 1.2m -12d 20.4
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Important Station Information
Ny Alesund and Ny Alesund-South were tagged along to this
schedule file.
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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 Ag Ht Ma Ny Ns Sa Kv Wz Yg
0235+164 21298-170000| 163 169 169|
2008-159 21298-170000| 200 149 200 180 |
0059+581 21298-170356| 26 200 200 71 50 70 |
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Last observations
Source Start DURATIONS
name yyddd-hhmmss Ag Ht Ma Ny Ns Sa Kv Wz Yg
0059+581 21299-164619| 90 115 115 |
2000+472 21299-164918| 120 195 195 157 147 |
0302-623 21299-164949| 132 132 |
0235+164 21299-165302| 79 123 55 123|
2325+093 21299-165314| 52 52 |
0955+476 21299-165442| 27 27 |
0716+714 21299-165550| 195 195 74 |
0332-403 21299-165606| 40 98 98|
3C446 21299-165801| 114 114 |
0454-234 21299-165835| 80 80|
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SKED Summary from file ./r11022.skd for experiment R11022
(all scans with at least one subnet station)
Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 8.0
Min = 0.0 Max = 68.6 (Baseline Ag-Yg on 0454-234) RMS = 14.2
Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours).
Key: Ag=AGGO Ht=HART15M Ma=MATERA Ny=NYALES20 Ns=NYALE13S
Sa=RAEGSMAR Kv=SEJONG Wz=WETTZELL Yg=YARRA12M
Ag Ht Ma Ny Ns Sa Kv Wz Yg Avg
% obs. time: 46 54 47 19 15 65 41 59 33 42
% cal. time: 3 5 6 1 1 6 3 6 3 4
% slew time: 5 31 40 6 0 6 15 15 10 15
% idle time: 45 9 7 72 83 22 40 19 53 39
total # scans: 275 464 516 105 77 541 288 535 244 338
# scans/hour : 11 19 22 4 3 23 12 22 10 14
Avg scan (sec): 143 101 78 159 166 103 123 95 116 120
# data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16
# Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16
Total TB(M5): 1.26 1.50 1.29 0.53 0.41 1.79 1.13 1.63 0.91 1.16
# OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE
| Ag Ht Ma Ny Ns Sa Kv Wz Yg Total
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Ag| 225 62 0 0 127 0 72 3 489
Ht| 205 9 2 202 39 179 103 964
Ma| 94 65 407 132 433 56 1454
Ny| 70 77 94 81 14 439
Ns| 57 65 61 12 332
Sa| 96 435 23 1424
Kv| 127 147 700
Wz| 52 1440
Yg| 410
Number of 2-station scans: 459
Number of 3-station scans: 248
Number of 4-station scans: 158
Number of 5-station scans: 87
Number of 6-station scans: 49
Number of 7-station scans: 2
Number of 8-station scans: 1
Number of 9-station scans: 0
Total number of scans: 1004
Total number of obs: 3826
Total integrated obs-time: 348581
Average obs-time: 91.1
Histogram of observation durations
Dur: 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 130 140 150 160 170 180 190 200
#Obs: | 563| 356| 317| 324| 178| 220| 237| 155| 151| 102| 265| 151| 138| 76| 55| 48| 91| 399|
Average X-band SNRs by baseline
| Ag Ht Ma Ny Ns Sa Kv Wz Yg AVG
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Ag| 20 22 - - 22 - 28 15 22
Ht| 65 33 24 62 34 89 39 54
Ma| 36 35 62 32 92 31 63
Ny| 40 44 26 60 26 40
Ns| 47 27 62 21 41
Sa| 31 98 31 65
Kv| 48 32 33
Wz| 44 81
Yg| 34
Average S-band SNRs by baseline
| Ag Ht Ma Ny Ns Sa Kv Wz Yg AVG
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Ag| 17 14 - - 17 - 18 14 17
Ht| 33 25 27 38 20 43 24 31
Ma| 26 29 29 16 35 17 29
Ny| 62 41 22 46 23 37
Ns| 49 27 54 24 43
Sa| 18 44 20 34
Kv| 23 21 21
Wz| 23 38
Yg| 22
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Recording mode
Name Code
GEOSX SX
Recording mode for: AGGO HART15M MATERA NYALES20 RAEGSMAR SEJONG WETTZELL YARRA12M
Mode Tot.Rate #Chan Chan.BW Tot.BW #BBC #bits Tracks*(fan) Tot.tracks Barrel
Mk341:1 256 Mbps 16 8 Mhz 128 Mhz 14 1 16*(1) 16 NONE
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 for: NYALE13S
Mode Tot.Rate #Chan Chan.BW Tot.BW #BBC #bits Tracks*(fan) Tot.tracks Barrel
MK341:2 256 Mbps 16 8 Mhz 128 Mhz 14 1 16*(2) 32 NONE
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
1508+572 1.00 1.50 0.24 9 9
0227+403 1.00 1.50 0.44 17 9
0302-623 1.00 1.50 0.97 37 37
0548+084 1.00 1.50 0.50 19 8
1423+146 1.00 1.50 0.05 2 2
2111+400 1.00 1.50 0.10 4 4
1920-211 1.00 1.50 0.18 7 3
1034-374 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0
0955+326 1.00 1.50 1.07 41 15
0216+011 1.00 1.50 0.10 4 2
Total 3.66 140 89
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Minor Options
Astro Abs 3.00
BegScan Rel 1.00
EndScan Rel 1.00
NumObs Rel 1.00
StatWt Abs 2.00
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Major Options
Subnet AgHtMaNyNsSaKvWzYg
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
El_noise 0.0
SNRWts Yes
SplitTwins No
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Weighted Station
1 AGGO 2.00
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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)
Ag Ht Ma Ny Ns Sa Kv Wz Ag Ht Ma Ny Ns Sa Kv Wz
Ht 15 Ht 13
Ma 15 20 Ma 13 15
Ny 15 15 15 Ny 13 13 13
Ns 15 15 15 15 Ns 13 13 13 13
Sa 15 20 20 15 15 Sa 13 15 15 13 13
Kv 15 20 20 15 15 20 Kv 13 15 15 13 13 15
Wz 15 20 20 15 15 20 20 Wz 13 15 15 13 13 15 15
Yg 15 20 20 15 15 20 20 20 Yg 13 15 15 13 13 15 15 15