Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1528 Prepared by C. Thomas, NVI, Inc./GSFC Refer to http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/program/descrip2012.html#r1 for the session purpose. =========================================================== ----- Parameter listing -------------------------------------- Experiment: R1528 Description IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Start: 2012-101-17:00:00 End: 2012-102-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2012101 (2012.28) ( 16028 MJD, TUES 10APR.) Greenwich sidereal time: 6:17: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 1h 18.4m 8d 16.7 =========================================================== Important Station Information Westford was tagged along to this schedule file. Tsukuba's X-band SEFD was doubled for this session. The X-band SEFD was changed from 320 to 640. =========================================================== 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 Ft Hh Ma Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz Ys 0332-403 12101-170000| 238 238 | 0920+390 12101-170000| 451 454 454 451 127 233 311| 2008-159 12101-170440| 111 111 | 0743+259 12101-170620| 47 47| 3C274 12101-170843| 90 90 85 85 54 | 1053+815 12101-171143| 126 101 126 116 63 110| 1057-797 12101-171354| 43 43 | 0215+015 12101-171800| 377 190 290 377 121 128 131| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Hh Ma Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz Ys CTA26 12102-163300| 102 52 43 102| 2113+293 12102-163418| 43 43 | 0454-234 12102-163538| 83 83 51 57| 2013+163 12102-163538| 234 234 | 0332-403 12102-163747| 238 162 238 | 0338-214 12102-163749| 120 99 120| 1846+322 12102-164011| 51 51 | 2059+034 12102-164231| 400 400 | 0602+673 12102-164248| 166 117 166 84 116| 0308-611 12102-164304| 152 152 | 0524+034 12102-164802| 407 407 273 382| 0700-197 12102-164946| 233 233 | 0016+731 12102-165007| 73 73 | 3C274 12102-165333| 43 43 | 0322+222 12102-165556| 91 89 91 44 | 0537-441 12102-165630| 43 43 116 116| 2000+472 12102-165845| 69 69 62 61 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1528.skd for experiment R1528 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 5.7 Min = 0.0 Max = 120.0 (Baseline Tc-Ts on 0537-441) RMS = 11.0 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Hh=HARTRAO Ma=MATERA Ny=NYALES20 On=ONSALA60 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Ys=YEBES40M Ft Hh Ma Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz Ys Avg % obs. time: 43 33 55 51 57 44 40 19 37 44 42 % cal. time: 2 2 3 4 3 2 4 1 4 4 3 % slew time: 30 43 26 21 22 3 17 5 11 32 21 % idle time: 24 21 15 22 16 51 38 74 47 20 33 total # scans: 189 206 301 362 302 172 350 115 350 327 267 # scans/hour : 8 9 13 15 13 7 15 5 15 14 11 Avg scan (sec): 195 138 158 123 164 219 99 144 91 115 144 # 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 GBytes: 1325 1025 1712 1598 1785 1357 1248 596 1152 1358 1316 Total GB(M5): 1177 911 1522 1420 1587 1206 1109 530 1024 1207 1169 # of tapes : 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: 10.0 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 11694.7 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Hh Ma Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz Ys StnTotal ------------------------------------------------------------ Ft| 88 39 21 28 125 12 36 33 59 441 Hh| 87 42 53 69 45 18 68 84 554 Ma| 221 252 16 146 91 247 245 1344 Ny| 252 7 252 90 265 228 1378 On| 8 172 91 266 232 1354 Tc| 28 20 9 26 308 Ts| 50 209 140 1054 Wf| 93 90 579 Wz| 253 1443 Ys| 1357 Number of 2-station scans: 289 Number of 3-station scans: 111 Number of 4-station scans: 63 Number of 5-station scans: 83 Number of 6-station scans: 102 Number of 7-station scans: 50 Number of 8-station scans: 10 Number of 9-station scans: 6 Number of 10-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 714 4906 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: FORTLEZA HARTRAO MATERA NYALES20 ONSALA60 TIGOCONC TSUKUB32 WESTFORD WETTZELL YEBES40M 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 2215+020 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 1013+127 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 2216+178 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 0442+389 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 1441+252 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 1550-242 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 1601+112 1.00 1.50 0.08 4 4 1725+123 1.00 1.50 0.14 7 5 1014+615 1.00 1.50 1.61 79 11 0736+017 1.00 1.50 1.51 74 10 Total 3.34 164 30 =========================================================== 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 FtHhMaNyOnTcTsWfWzYs SkyCov Yes AllBlGood Yes MaxAngle 180 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 Ft FORTLEZA Mark5A Hh HARTRAO Mark5B Ma MATERA Mark5A Ny NYALES20 Mark5A On ONSALA60 Mark5A Tc TIGOCONC Mark5B Ts TSUKUB32 K5 Wf WESTFORD Mark5A Wz WETTZELL Mark5A Ys YEBES40M Mark5A =========================================================== SNR Targets Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans X-band (margin 0) S-band (margin 0) Ft Hh Ma Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz Ft Hh Ma Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz Hh 20 Hh 15 Ma 20 20 Ma 15 15 Ny 20 20 20 Ny 15 15 15 On 20 20 20 20 On 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 Wz 20 20 20 20 20 15 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 15 12 15 15 Ys 20 20 20 20 20 15 20 20 20 Ys 15 15 15 15 15 12 15 15 15