Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1557 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: R1557 Description IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Start: 2012-303-17:00:00 End: 2012-304-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2012303 (2012.83) ( 16230 MJD, MON. 29OCT.) Greenwich sidereal time: 19:33: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 14h 17.4m -13d 44.6 =========================================================== 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 Ft Hb Ke Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz 0059+581 12303-170000| 202 43 52 43 202 59| 1954-388 12303-170000| 233 233 | 0115-214 12303-170143| 168 168 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Hb Ke Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz 1104-445 12304-163209| 243 243 | 0059+581 12304-163340| 64 43 64| 2229+695 12304-163554| 96 99 99| CTA26 12304-163600| 96 70 96 43 | 2214+350 12304-163816| 58 43 58| 0529+483 12304-164001| 192 192 67 | 1749+096 12304-164049| 87 87 43 54| 0537-286 12304-164222| 72 72 | 1909+161 12304-164340| 152 152 113| 0229+131 12304-164435| 120 120 43 | 3C446 12304-164611| 43 43| 0104-408 12304-164712| 281 281 | 0307+380 12304-164742| 273 314 103 314| 3C418 12304-165015| 115 47 115 | 1057-797 12304-165235| 43 43 | 0524+034 12304-165305| 140 140 | 0602+673 12304-165344| 86 86 80| 2255-282 12304-165400| 194 194 | 2008-159 12304-165617| 185 185| 1300+580 12304-165701| 135 135 43 115 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1557.skd for experiment R1557 (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 = 55.0 (Baseline Ke-Kk on 3C371 ) RMS = 11.5 Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Hb=HOBART12 Ke=KATH12M Kk=KOKEE Ny=NYALES20 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Ft Hb Ke Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 47 54 57 51 56 49 39 54 48 51 % cal. time: 2 3 4 4 4 2 6 4 4 4 % slew time: 31 10 11 20 21 3 27 15 13 17 % idle time: 20 31 27 24 18 45 27 26 33 28 total # scans: 171 299 334 337 379 146 538 346 372 324 # scans/hour : 7 12 14 14 16 6 22 14 16 14 Avg scan (sec): 235 157 148 132 127 293 62 135 112 155 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1449 1691 1785 1597 1735 1538 1202 1679 1501 1575 Total GB(M5): 1288 1503 1586 1420 1542 1367 1068 1493 1334 1400 # of tapes : 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: 9.0 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 12600.8 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Hb Ke Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Wz StnTotal ------------------------------------------------------- Ft| 9 4 42 34 105 23 102 67 386 Hb| 234 68 16 22 147 8 21 525 Ke| 77 46 16 184 24 56 641 Kk| 179 49 247 189 133 984 Ny| 6 283 216 284 1064 Tc| 9 78 20 305 Ts| 185 237 1315 Wf| 195 997 Wz| 1013 Number of 2-station scans: 393 Number of 3-station scans: 259 Number of 4-station scans: 180 Number of 5-station scans: 93 Number of 6-station scans: 29 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Number of 9-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 954 3615 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode setup for: FORTLEZA 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 Recording mode setup for: HOBART12 KATH12M KOKEE NYALES20 TIGOCONC Mode Tot.Rate Tot.BandW #chan #bits Barrel Mk341:1 256.000 Mbits 128.000 MHz 14 1 NONE Chan.BW #Subpasses Tracks(*fan) Tot.tracks Speed 8.00 MHz 1 16(*1) 16 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 0422-380 1.00 1.50 0.08 3 3 1339-287 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 0109+224 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 0430+289 1.00 1.50 0.14 5 3 IIIZW2 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 1738+499 1.00 1.50 1.52 55 17 1240+381 1.00 1.50 0.03 1 1 1039+811 1.00 1.50 1.44 52 7 1027-186 1.00 1.50 0.03 1 1 1348+308 1.00 1.50 0.17 6 6 Total 3.40 123 38 =========================================================== Tape types ID Station Tape length Density Passes Ft FORTLEZA Mark5A Hb HOBART12 Mark5B Ke KATH12M Mark5B Kk KOKEE Mark5B Ny NYALES20 Mark5B Tc TIGOCONC Mark5B 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) Ft Hb Ke Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf Ft Hb Ke Kk Ny Tc Ts Wf 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