Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1853 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: R1853 Description IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Start: 2018-211-17:00:00 End: 2018-212-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2018211 (2018.58) ( 18330 MJD, MON. 30JUL.) Greenwich sidereal time: 13:33:07 (17:00:00 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 8h 39.6m 18d 23.8 =========================================================== 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 Ht Ke Kk Ny Kv Ww Wz Yg 1741-038 18211-170000| 43 43 48 88 88| 0202+319 18211-170204| 296 49 98 296 259 | 1334-127 18211-170211| 43 43 43 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ft Ht Ke Kk Ny Kv Ww Wz Yg 1334-127 18212-164745| 43 43 43 | 2000+472 18212-164929| 43 43 43 | 1936-155 18212-165010| 43 185 185 163 166| 3C274 18212-165228| 85 85 64 | 3C446 18212-165407| 108 61 166 166 97| 1324+224 18212-165429| 121 129 129 | 2215+150 18212-165623| 165 165| CTA26 18212-165734| 53 53 | 1758+388 18212-165740| 112 121 121 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1853.skd for experiment R1853 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 5.2 Min = 0.0 Max = 250.4 (Baseline Ft-Ny on 1741-038) RMS = 13.5 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ft=FORTLEZA Ht=HART15M Ke=KATH12M Kk=KOKEE Ny=NYALES20 Kv=SEJONG Ww=WARK12M Wz=WETTZELL Yg=YARRA12M Ft Ht Ke Kk Ny Kv Ww Wz Yg Avg % obs. time: 45 50 61 47 53 51 56 45 59 52 % cal. time: 3 4 5 5 5 4 4 4 4 4 % slew time: 38 22 16 24 20 16 13 13 15 20 % idle time: 12 23 18 23 22 29 27 37 20 24 total # scans: 279 369 410 429 423 313 364 382 386 372 # scans/hour : 12 15 17 18 18 13 15 16 16 16 Avg scan (sec): 140 117 128 95 107 140 132 102 133 121 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total TB(M5): 1.25 1.38 1.68 1.30 1.45 1.40 1.54 1.25 1.64 1.43 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ft Ht Ke Kk Ny Kv Ww Wz Yg Total ------------------------------------------------------- Ft| 263 0 14 43 0 1 143 0 464 Ht| 34 0 100 29 25 211 32 694 Ke| 90 17 146 260 21 362 930 Kk| 192 165 148 64 79 752 Ny| 114 13 248 12 739 Kv| 88 61 133 736 Ww| 1 244 780 Wz| 22 771 Yg| 884 Number of 2-station scans: 623 Number of 3-station scans: 392 Number of 4-station scans: 151 Number of 5-station scans: 61 Number of 6-station scans: 4 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Number of 8-station scans: 0 Number of 9-station scans: 0 Total number of scans: 1231 Total number of obs: 3375 Total integrated obs-time: 369186 Average obs-time: 109.4 Histogram of observation durations Dur: 30 45 60 75 90 105 120 135 150 165 180 195 210 225 240 255 270 285 300 720 #Obs: | 628| 364| 366| 272| 323| 226| 259| 131| 207| 148| 106| 75| 46| 67| 47| 61| 16| 21| 12| Average X-band SNRs by baseline | Ft Ht Ke Kk Ny Kv Ww Wz Yg AVG ------------------------------------------------------ Ft| 26 - 21 31 - 32 33 - 28 Ht| 31 - 52 25 29 73 36 45 Ke| 33 41 32 36 37 35 35 Kk| 34 27 30 33 25 30 Ny| 35 34 83 34 53 Kv| 25 43 26 30 Ww| 44 33 32 Wz| 32 61 Yg| 32 Average S-band SNRs by baseline | Ft Ht Ke Kk Ny Kv Ww Wz Yg AVG ------------------------------------------------------ Ft| 18 - 22 15 - 15 15 - 17 Ht| 18 - 25 17 19 36 22 25 Ke| 26 15 16 17 16 18 18 Kk| 23 21 26 23 25 23 Ny| 15 15 25 18 22 Kv| 16 17 16 17 Ww| 15 18 19 Wz| 19 25 Yg| 19 =========================================================== 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 KATH12M KOKEE NYALES20 SEJONG WARK12M WETTZELL 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 3C166 1.00 1.50 0.03 1 1 2005+642 1.00 1.50 0.83 28 14 1600+43B 1.00 1.50 0.65 22 14 1511-100 1.00 1.50 1.10 37 10 1717+178 1.00 1.50 0.71 24 13 0440+345 1.00 1.50 0.06 2 2 2325+093 1.00 1.50 0.53 18 10 1925-610 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 1420-679 1.00 1.50 0.12 4 4 OK290 1.00 1.50 0.44 15 15 Total 4.47 151 83 =========================================================== 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 FtHtKeKkNyKvWwWzYg 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 =========================================================== Weighted Station 1 FORTLEZA 2.00 2 HART15M 1.00 =========================================================== 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 Ke Kk Ny Kv Ww Wz Ft Ht Ke Kk Ny Kv Ww Wz Ht 20 Ht 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 Kv 20 20 20 20 20 Kv 15 15 15 15 15 Ww 20 20 20 20 20 20 Ww 15 15 15 15 15 15 Wz 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 Yg 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 Yg 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15