Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1452 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: R1452 Description IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Start: 2010-285-17:00:00 End: 2010-286-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2010285 (2010.78) ( 15482 MJD, TUES 12OCT.) Greenwich sidereal time: 18:24: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 13h 11.1m -7d 32.3 =========================================================== Important Station Information Hobart-12m was tagged along to this schedule file. =========================================================== There are no observations for Kokee and Ny Alesund from 18:15 U.T. to 19:45 U.T. Kokee and Ny Alesund will participate in the intensive session during this period. =========================================================== First observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Hh Hb Ho Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf 0727-115 10285-170000| 43 43 43 43 43 | 1800+440 10285-170000| 87 73 87| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Hh Hb Ho Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf 0727-115 10286-164050| 43 43 43 43 | 2229+695 10286-164422| 116 66 43 116| 0104-408 10286-164557| 68 68 | 0738+491 10286-164712| 292 289 96 292| 2353-686 10286-164921| 81 81 | 0602+673 10286-165240| 101 67 101| 2255-282 10286-165332| 65 65 | 1308+328 10286-165533| 79 67 79| 0332-403 10286-165650| 43 43 43 | 3C274 10286-165730| 123 95 123| 0115-214 10286-165815| 61 61 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1452.skd for experiment R1452 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 6.3 Min = 0.0 Max = 160.0 (Baseline Ts-Wf on 2127-096) RMS = 13.5 Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Hh=HARTRAO Hb=HOBART12 Ho=HOBART26 Kk=KOKEE Ny=NYALES20 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Hh Hb Ho Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Avg % obs. time: 28 2 33 52 48 30 36 47 35 % cal. time: 2 0 3 4 5 2 6 5 3 % slew time: 52 1 37 22 22 7 26 17 23 % idle time: 16 96 27 21 24 60 30 30 38 total # scans: 215 38 255 381 415 170 536 392 300 # scans/hour : 9 2 11 16 17 7 22 16 13 Avg scan (sec): 114 43 110 118 100 154 59 104 99 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 882 59 1011 1615 1500 945 1132 1474 1077 Total GB(M5): 784 52 898 1435 1334 840 1006 1310 957 # of tapes : 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: 8.0 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 7659.8 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Hh Hb Ho Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf StnTotal -------------------------------------------------- Hh| 9 107 0 30 82 49 45 322 Hb| 36 15 0 6 31 2 99 Ho| 82 17 62 126 7 437 Kk| 240 47 301 195 880 Ny| 9 342 274 912 Tc| 9 59 274 Ts| 249 1107 Wf| 831 Number of 2-station scans: 362 Number of 3-station scans: 307 Number of 4-station scans: 183 Number of 5-station scans: 5 Number of 6-station scans: 0 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 857 2431 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: HARTRAO HOBART12 HOBART26 KOKEE NYALES20 TIGOCONC TSUKUB32 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 0524-460 1.00 1.50 0.16 4 4 0406-127 1.00 1.50 0.12 3 3 2002-375 1.00 1.50 0.29 7 7 2353-686 1.00 1.50 0.58 14 14 1451-400 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 1030+074 1.00 1.50 0.04 1 1 0206+136 1.00 1.50 0.08 2 2 1616+063 1.00 1.50 0.04 1 1 1221+809 1.00 1.50 1.36 33 6 2150+173 1.00 1.50 1.40 34 14 Total 4.07 99 52 =========================================================== 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 HhHbHoKkNyTcTsWf 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 Hb HOBART12 Mark5B Ho HOBART26 Mark5A Kk KOKEE Mark5A Ny NYALES20 Mark5A Tc TIGOCONC Mark5A Ts TSUKUB32 K5 Wf WESTFORD Mark5A =========================================================== SNR Targets Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans X-band (margin 0) S-band (margin 0) Hh Hb Ho Kk Ny Tc Ts Hh Hb Ho Kk Ny Tc Ts Hb 20 Hb 15 Ho 20 20 Ho 15 15 Kk 20 20 20 Kk 15 15 15 Ny 20 20 20 20 Ny 15 15 15 15 Tc 15 15 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 12 12 Ts 20 20 20 20 20 15 Ts 15 15 15 15 15 12 Wf 20 20 20 20 20 15 20 Wf 15 15 15 15 15 12 15