Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1444 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: R1444 Description IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Start: 2010-228-17:00:00 End: 2010-229-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2010228 (2010.62) ( 15425 MJD, MON. 16AUG.) Greenwich sidereal time: 14:39: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 9h 44.2m 13d 36.8 =========================================================== Important Station Information This will be the first R1 session with HartRAO after being down for over 1.5 years. Kashima-34m is replacing Tsukuba in this session because Tsukuba is down due to lightning damage. =========================================================== First observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Hh Ho Kb Mc Sh Tc Wf 0537-441 10228-170000| 43 43 | 1732+389 10228-170000| 172 65 43 82 172| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Hh Ho Kb Mc Sh Tc Wf 0657+172 10229-165231| 215 215| 0215+015 10229-165325| 43 43 43 | 0013-005 10229-165546| 83 66 83 | 1546+027 10229-165554| 43 43 | 1656-075 10229-165821| 79 79 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1444.skd for experiment R1444 (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 = 73.8 (Baseline Ho-Wf on 0727-115) RMS = 13.5 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Hh=HARTRAO Ho=HOBART26 Kb=KASHIM34 Mc=MEDICINA Sh=SESHAN25 Tc=TIGO Wf=WESTFORD Hh Ho Kb Mc Sh Tc Wf Avg % obs. time: 28 32 31 32 38 54 44 37 % cal. time: 3 4 5 4 5 4 4 4 % slew time: 47 44 41 40 37 12 15 34 % idle time: 22 20 21 23 18 29 37 25 total # scans: 221 312 460 380 454 304 318 349 # scans/hour : 9 13 19 16 19 13 13 15 Avg scan (sec): 110 88 59 72 73 155 119 96 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 876 994 979 980 1197 1695 1360 1155 Total GB(M5): 779 883 871 872 1064 1507 1209 1026 # of tapes : 1.0 1.0 0.1 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: 6.1 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 7184.2 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Hh Ho Kb Mc Sh Tc Wf StnTotal --------------------------------------------- Hh| 77 37 103 49 108 50 424 Ho| 166 13 164 120 14 554 Kb| 189 423 16 130 961 Mc| 196 90 205 796 Sh| 0 121 953 Tc| 129 463 Wf| 649 Number of 2-station scans: 384 Number of 3-station scans: 342 Number of 4-station scans: 160 Number of 5-station scans: 3 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 889 2400 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: HARTRAO HOBART26 KASHIM34 MEDICINA SESHAN25 TIGOCONC WESTFORD 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 1824-582 1.00 1.50 0.17 4 4 1508+572 1.00 1.50 1.38 33 13 1725+123 1.00 1.50 1.00 24 11 0516-621 1.00 1.50 1.50 36 24 0955+326 1.00 1.50 1.08 26 13 0013-005 1.00 1.50 1.04 25 10 0234+285 1.00 1.50 1.50 36 14 0403-132 1.00 1.50 1.50 36 12 2106+143 1.00 1.50 1.21 29 10 1443-162 1.00 1.50 0.71 17 9 Total 11.08 266 120 =========================================================== 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 6 TIGOCONC 6.00 =========================================================== Major Options Subnet HhHoKbMcShTcWf 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 Hh HARTRAO Mark5A Ho HOBART26 Mark5A Kb KASHIM34 K5 Mc MEDICINA Mark5A Sh SESHAN25 Mark5A Tc TIGOCONC Mark5A Wf WESTFORD Mark5A =========================================================== SNR Targets Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans X-band (margin 0) S-band (margin 0) Hh Ho Kb Mc Sh Tc Hh Ho Kb Mc Sh Tc Ho 20 Ho 15 Kb 20 20 Kb 15 15 Mc 20 20 20 Mc 15 15 15 Sh 20 20 20 20 Sh 15 15 15 15 Tc 15 15 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 12 12 Wf 20 20 20 20 20 15 Wf 15 15 15 15 15 12