Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1436 Prepared by C. Thomas, NVI, Inc./GSFC Refer to http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/program/descrip2010.html#r1 for the session purpose. =========================================================== ----- Parameter listing -------------------------------------- Experiment: R1436 Description IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Start: 2010-172-17:00:00 End: 2010-173-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2010172 (2010.47) ( 15369 MJD, MON. 21JUN.) Greenwich sidereal time: 10:59: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 6h 0.9m 23d 26.2 =========================================================== Important Station Information Svetloe was tagged along to this schedule file because we do not have confirmation that the station will be operational by the start of this session. =========================================================== 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 Ho Ny Sv Tc Ts Wf Wz 0552+398 10172-170000| 97 48 97 43 60| 1923+210 10172-170000| 43 43 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ho Ny Sv Tc Ts Wf Wz 0606-223 10173-165429| 236 236 | 0912+029 10173-165429| 43 43 43| 1749+096 10173-165643| 43 43 43 43| 2000+472 10173-165831| 43 43 43| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1436.skd for experiment R1436 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 10.8 Min = 0.0 Max = 75.8 (Baseline Ho-Sv on 0727-115) RMS = 15.1 Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ho=HOBART26 Ny=NYALES20 Sv=SVETLOE Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Ho Ny Sv Tc Ts Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 33 50 16 41 40 46 43 38 % cal. time: 3 6 3 3 6 5 6 5 % slew time: 44 29 40 10 24 21 16 27 % idle time: 19 14 40 44 29 26 34 30 total # scans: 299 555 259 279 541 473 475 411 # scans/hour : 12 23 11 12 23 20 20 17 Avg scan (sec): 96 78 52 127 63 85 79 82 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1031 1550 486 1280 1234 1444 1350 1196 Total GB(M5): 917 1378 432 1137 1097 1284 1200 1063 # of tapes : 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 0.1 1.0 1.0 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: 6.1 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 7444.0 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ho Ny Sv Tc Ts Wf Wz StnTotal --------------------------------------------- Ho| 36 16 156 140 18 23 389 Ny| 247 40 384 369 411 1487 Sv| 21 180 173 220 857 Tc| 30 96 57 400 Ts| 254 291 1279 Wf| 330 1240 Wz| 1332 Number of 2-station scans: 387 Number of 3-station scans: 227 Number of 4-station scans: 214 Number of 5-station scans: 114 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 942 3492 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: HOBART26 NYALES20 SVETLOE TIGOCONC TSUKUB32 WESTFORD WETTZELL Mode Tot.Rate Tot.BandW #chan #bits Barrel Mk341:2 256.000 Mbits 128.000 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 channels recorded per sub-pass X S Total 10.000 6.000 16.000 =========================================================== Monitoring Sources Source Min Max Actual #Num #Scans 1123+264 1.00 1.50 1.63 57 17 NRAO530 1.00 1.50 1.12 39 20 1608+243 1.00 1.50 0.43 15 9 1354-152 1.00 1.50 0.37 13 13 2243+047 1.00 1.50 0.43 15 6 0722+145 1.00 1.50 1.40 49 15 0302-623 1.00 1.50 1.12 39 39 0300+470 1.00 1.50 1.52 53 10 1642+690 1.00 1.50 1.78 62 7 1045-188 1.00 1.50 0.23 8 8 Total 10.02 350 144 =========================================================== Minor Options Option Norm Wt Aux_Parm 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 HoNySvTcTsWfWz SkyCov Yes AllBlGood Yes MinAngle 15 MinBetween 20 MinSunDist 15 MaxSlewTime 300 TimeWindow 24.00 MinSubNetSize 2 NumSubNet 1 Best 60 FillIn Yes FillMinSub 3 FillMinTime 120 FillBest 80 Add_ps 30.0 SNRWts Yes =========================================================== Tape types ID Station Tape length Density Passes Ho HOBART26 Mark5A Ny NYALES20 Mark5A Sv SVETLOE Mark5A Tc TIGOCONC Mark5A Ts TSUKUB32 K5 Wf WESTFORD Mark5A Wz WETTZELL Mark5A =========================================================== SNR Targets Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans X-band (margin 0) S-band (margin 0) Ho Ny Sv Tc Ts Wf Ho Ny Sv Tc Ts Wf Ny 20 Ny 15 Sv 20 20 Sv 15 15 Tc 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 Ts 20 20 20 15 Ts 15 15 15 12 Wf 20 20 20 15 20 Wf 15 15 15 12 15 Wz 20 20 20 15 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 12 15 15