Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1530 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: R1530 Description IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Start: 2012-114-17:00:00 End: 2012-115-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2012114 (2012.31) ( 16041 MJD, MON. 23APR.) Greenwich sidereal time: 7: 8: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 2h 6.8m 12d 49.7 =========================================================== Important Station Information Westford was tagged along to this schedule file. =========================================================== There are no observations for Kokee and Wettzell from 18:15 U.T. to 19:45 U.T. Kokee and Wettzell will participate in the intensive session during this period. =========================================================== First observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Hh Hb Ke Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Ys 0537-441 12114-170000| 43 43 | 1921-293 12114-170000| 43 43 | 3C371 12114-170000| 43 51 43 43 51| 2052-474 12114-170119| 54 54 | ERROR: For source: 0016+731 SNRAC: SNR of 17 is less than minimum 20 required for Kk-Wf at X-band 0016+731 12114-170146| 61 91 43 85 70 91| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Hh Hb Ke Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Ys 2255-282 12115-164806| 91 91 | 0920+390 12115-164914| 269 310 77 310 232 310| 1149-084 12115-165121| 60 60 | 1255-316 12115-165257| 399 399 | 2155+312 12115-165351| 43 43 | 3C274 12115-165640| 131 131 43 102 100| 1602-115 12115-165818| 50 50 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1530.skd for experiment R1530 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 5.0 Min = 0.0 Max = 120.0 (Baseline Tc-Ts on 0537-441) RMS = 10.6 Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Hh=HARTRAO Hb=HOBART12 Ke=KATH12M Kk=KOKEE Ny=NYALES20 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Ys=YEBES40M Hh Hb Ke Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Ys Avg % obs. time: 35 53 52 48 55 21 41 17 47 49 42 % cal. time: 3 4 4 4 4 1 6 1 4 4 4 % slew time: 44 12 10 20 21 2 26 4 11 32 19 % idle time: 17 31 33 27 19 75 26 76 37 14 36 total # scans: 229 316 310 338 364 110 526 125 349 359 302 # scans/hour : 10 13 13 14 15 5 22 5 15 15 13 Avg scan (sec): 134 144 145 123 129 162 67 119 115 118 125 # 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: 1102 1642 1617 1495 1695 642 1269 535 1447 1525 1297 Total GB(M5): 980 1460 1437 1329 1506 571 1128 475 1286 1355 1153 # 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: 11528.2 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Hh Hb Ke Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Ys StnTotal ------------------------------------------------------------ Hh| 63 32 0 49 42 67 9 93 106 461 Hb| 203 67 7 27 93 3 6 2 471 Ke| 61 18 10 132 9 17 13 495 Kk| 165 45 231 67 123 106 865 Ny| 0 263 107 269 261 1139 Tc| 10 15 8 21 178 Ts| 81 215 191 1283 Wf| 100 101 492 Wz| 285 1116 Ys| 1086 Number of 2-station scans: 520 Number of 3-station scans: 216 Number of 4-station scans: 104 Number of 5-station scans: 123 Number of 6-station scans: 50 Number of 7-station scans: 1 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Number of 9-station scans: 0 Number of 10-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 1014 3793 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: HARTRAO HOBART12 KATH12M KOKEE NYALES20 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 0442+389 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 0047+023 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 1610-771 1.00 1.50 0.50 19 19 1441+252 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 0745+241 1.00 1.50 1.45 55 16 1443-162 1.00 1.50 0.08 3 3 1746+470 1.00 1.50 0.26 10 10 0434-188 1.00 1.50 0.24 9 9 2000+148 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 Total 2.53 96 57 =========================================================== 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 HhHbKeKkNyTcTsWfWzYs 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 Hh HARTRAO Mark5B Hb HOBART12 Mark5B Ke KATH12M Mark5A Kk KOKEE Mark5A Ny NYALES20 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) Hh Hb Ke Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Hh Hb Ke Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Hb 20 Hb 15 Ke 20 20 Ke 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 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