Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1823 Prepared by C. Thomas, NVI, Inc./GSFC Refer to http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/program/descrip2018.html#r1 for the session purpose. =========================================================== ----- Parameter listing -------------------------------------- Experiment: R1823 Description IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: WASH Start: 2018-002-17:00:00 End: 2018-003-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2018002 (2018.01) ( 18121 MJD, TUES 2JAN.) Greenwich sidereal time: 23:49:07 (17:00:00 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 18h 53.3m -22d 52.3 =========================================================== Important Station Information Ishioka was tagged along to this schedule file. =========================================================== There are no observations for Kokee from 18:15 U.T. to 19:45 U.T. Kokee will participate in the intensive session during this period. =========================================================== First observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Ht Is Ke Kk Ny Wn Yg 0017+200 18002-170000| 164 164 89 136 | 1149-084 18002-170000| 192 192 101 192| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Ht Is Ke Kk Ny Wn Yg 0454-234 18003-165304| 215 48 215| 2319+317 18003-165319| 105 105 105 | 1325-558 18003-165444| 140 140 | 0202+149 18003-165553| 115 87 115 | 1255-316 18003-165740| 135 135| 1749+096 18003-165845| 70 70 70 | 0347-211 18003-165850| 65 65 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1823.skd for experiment R1823 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 7.7 Min = 0.0 Max = 144.0 (Baseline Ke-Ny on 1741-038) RMS = 15.0 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Ht=HART15M Is=ISHIOKA Ke=KATH12M Kk=KOKEE Ny=NYALES20 Wn=WETTZ13N Yg=YARRA12M Ft Ht Is Ke Kk Ny Wn Yg Avg % obs. time: 37 57 47 69 54 64 71 63 58 % cal. time: 3 5 3 5 4 5 6 4 4 % slew time: 40 25 5 16 20 22 4 15 19 % idle time: 18 12 44 9 21 8 18 17 19 total # scans: 283 430 228 426 362 459 507 377 384 # scans/hour : 12 18 10 18 15 19 21 16 16 Avg scan (sec): 114 115 179 139 129 121 121 144 132 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total TB(M5): 1.03 1.59 1.30 1.90 1.50 1.78 1.96 1.73 1.60 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Ht Is Ke Kk Ny Wn Yg Total -------------------------------------------------- Ft| 191 1 0 60 112 179 9 552 Ht| 44 105 0 173 276 127 916 Is| 205 149 97 83 160 739 Ke| 171 105 105 313 1004 Kk| 207 146 103 836 Ny| 387 64 1145 Wn| 80 1256 Yg| 856 Number of 2-station scans: 415 Number of 3-station scans: 296 Number of 4-station scans: 214 Number of 5-station scans: 72 Number of 6-station scans: 23 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Total number of scans: 1020 Total number of obs: 3652 Total integrated obs-time: 457028 Average obs-time: 125.1 Histogram of observation durations Dur: 30 45 60 75 90 105 120 135 150 165 180 195 210 225 240 255 270 285 300 #Obs: | 490| 239| 421| 328| 312| 310| 220| 192| 190| 134| 138| 145| 143| 63| 65| 52| 36| 174 Average X-band SNRs by baseline | Ft Ht Is Ke Kk Ny Wn Yg AVG ------------------------------------------------- Ft| 43 21 - 26 38 42 25 40 Ht| 63 42 - 51 61 43 51 Is| 57 83 78 71 51 65 Ke| 37 37 36 38 42 Kk| 42 35 33 45 Ny| 77 35 57 Wn| 36 57 Yg| 40 Average S-band SNRs by baseline | Ft Ht Is Ke Kk Ny Wn Yg AVG ------------------------------------------------- Ft| 25 16 - 20 18 26 16 23 Ht| 34 22 - 29 45 25 32 Is| 31 74 42 43 34 43 Ke| 32 20 22 20 25 Kk| 38 37 34 41 Ny| 41 23 33 Wn| 27 37 Yg| 26 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode for: FORTLEZA Mode Tot.Rate Tot.BandW #BBC #bits Barrel Mk341:2 256 Mbits 128 MHz 14 1 NONE Chan.BW #Subpasses Tracks(*fan) Tot.tracks 8.00 MHz 1 16(*2) 32 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 1-bit channels recorded per sub-pass X S Total 10.00 6.00 16.00 Recording mode for: HART15M ISHIOKA KATH12M KOKEE NYALES20 WETTZ13N YARRA12M Mode Tot.Rate Tot.BandW #BBC #bits Barrel Mk341:1 256 Mbits 128 MHz 14 1 NONE Chan.BW #Subpasses Tracks(*fan) Tot.tracks 8.00 MHz 1 16(*1) 16 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 1-bit channels recorded per sub-pass X S Total 10.00 6.00 16.00 =========================================================== Monitoring Sources Source Min Max Actual #Num #Scans 0444+634 1.00 1.50 0.55 20 10 0202+149 1.00 1.50 1.18 43 17 0010+405 1.00 1.50 0.74 27 11 1308+326 1.00 1.50 0.38 14 14 1325-558 1.00 1.50 0.52 19 19 0438-436 1.00 1.50 0.05 2 2 0422+004 1.00 1.50 0.08 3 3 1954+513 1.00 1.50 0.82 30 12 0958+346 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 2351-154 1.00 1.50 0.08 3 3 Total 4.41 161 91 =========================================================== Minor Options Astro Abs 3.00 BegScan Rel 1.00 EndScan Rel 1.00 NumObs Rel 1.00 StatIdle Abs 3.00 StatWt Abs 2.00 =========================================================== Major Options Subnet FtHtIsKeKkNyWnYg SkyCov Yes AllBlGood Yes MaxAngle 180.00 MinAngle 15.00 MinBetween 20 MinSunDist 4.00 MaxSlewTime 300 TimeWindow 4.00 MinSubNetSize 2 NumSubNet 1 Best 60 FillIn Yes FillMinSub 3 FillMinTime 120 FillBest 80 Add_ps 30.0 SNRWts Yes =========================================================== SNR Targets Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans X-band (margin 0) S-band (margin 0) X-band (ast_margin 0) S-band (ast_margin 0) Ft Ht Is Ke Kk Ny Wn Ft Ht Is Ke Kk Ny Wn Ht 20 Ht 15 Is 20 20 Is 15 15 Ke 20 20 20 Ke 15 15 15 Kk 20 20 20 20 Kk 15 15 15 15 Ny 20 20 20 20 20 Ny 15 15 15 15 15 Wn 20 20 20 20 20 20 Wn 15 15 15 15 15 15 Yg 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 Yg 15 15 15 15 15 15 15