Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1956 Prepared by C. Thomas, NVI, Inc./GSFC Refer to http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/program/descrip2020.html#r1 for the session purpose. =========================================================== ----- Parameter listing -------------------------------------- Experiment: R1956 Description IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Start: 2020-202-17:00:00 End: 2020-203-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2020202 (2020.55) ( 19051 MJD, MON. 20JUL.) Greenwich sidereal time: 12:55:44 (17:00:00 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 8h 2.2m 20d 28.4 =========================================================== Important Station Information Noto was tagged along to this schedule file. Ny Alesund will participate in this session with a warm receiver so the SEFDs were adjusted. =========================================================== 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 Ag Ft Ht Ho Kk Ma Nt Ny Sh Wz Yg Ys 1124-186 20202-170000| 263 210 82 233 263 142 263| 3C446 20202-170000| 20 47 20 47 | 0202+319 20202-170211| 26 26 23 | 0133+476 20202-170318| 125 88 125 | =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ag Ft Ht Ho Kk Ma Nt Ny Sh Wz Yg Ys 1144-379 20203-165104| 395 395 190 261| 2353-686 20203-165116| 99 99 | 1255-316 20203-165118| 20 20 | 0642+449 20203-165337| 51 44 52 52 52 | 1424-418 20203-165508| 90 142 142 | 0202+319 20203-165529| 20 20 | 0133+476 20203-165625| 210 210 | 1351-018 20203-165631| 22 36 36| 1639-062 20203-165811| 104 104 104 104 104 104| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1956.skd for experiment R1956 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 8.3 Min = 0.0 Max = 102.9 (Baseline Ft-Ny on 0458-020) RMS = 12.1 Total time: 1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ag=AGGO Ft=FORTLEZA Ht=HART15M Ho=HOBART26 Kk=KOKEE Ma=MATERA Nt=NOTO Ny=NYALES20 Sh=SESHAN25 Wz=WETTZELL Yg=YARRA12M Ys=YEBES40M Ag Ft Ht Ho Kk Ma Nt Ny Sh Wz Yg Ys Avg % obs. time: 68 59 58 38 45 52 36 53 39 62 50 56 51 % cal. time: 3 3 4 4 5 5 3 5 6 5 5 5 4 % slew time: 5 35 24 48 26 35 34 21 46 13 15 30 28 % idle time: 23 2 13 8 24 7 26 21 8 19 29 8 16 total # scans: 252 253 372 377 410 423 281 407 491 458 403 448 381 # scans/hour : 11 11 16 16 17 18 12 17 20 19 17 19 16 Avg scan (sec): 234 200 134 87 95 107 111 112 68 116 106 108 122 # data tracks: 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 # Mk5 tracks: 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 Total TB(M5): 3.78 3.24 3.18 2.11 2.49 2.89 2.00 2.91 2.14 3.41 2.75 3.10 2.83 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ag Ft Ht Ho Kk Ma Nt Ny Sh Wz Yg Ys Total ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ag| 227 153 39 30 86 58 21 0 81 5 114 814 Ft| 147 26 23 95 69 33 4 91 6 129 850 Ht| 96 0 175 110 72 101 173 125 201 1353 Ho| 150 17 10 14 168 18 290 6 834 Kk| 122 88 208 247 158 134 118 1278 Ma| 239 269 192 384 69 356 2004 Nt| 192 141 236 45 225 1413 Ny| 262 293 51 243 1658 Sh| 221 219 178 1733 Wz| 70 376 2101 Yg| 60 1074 Ys| 2006 Number of 2-station scans: 266 Number of 3-station scans: 269 Number of 4-station scans: 237 Number of 5-station scans: 103 Number of 6-station scans: 127 Number of 7-station scans: 117 Number of 8-station scans: 24 Number of 9-station scans: 0 Number of 10-station scans: 0 Number of 11-station scans: 0 Number of 12-station scans: 0 Total number of scans: 1143 Total number of obs: 8559 Total integrated obs-time: 830316 Average obs-time: 97.0 Histogram of observation durations Dur: 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200 220 240 260 280 300 320 340 360 380 400 #Obs: | 2458| 1411| 833| 665| 644| 459| 456| 409| 259| 285| 163| 121| 80| 59| 68| 37| 32| 31| 89| Average X-band SNRs by baseline | Ag Ft Ht Ho Kk Ma Nt Ny Sh Wz Yg Ys AVG --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ag| 23 27 20 18 22 21 20 - 31 19 53 28 Ft| 64 39 38 62 58 47 64 83 37 160 67 Ht| 57 - 94 88 51 73 139 41 242 99 Ho| 45 62 42 43 75 82 45 177 53 Kk| 41 37 37 72 67 33 111 55 Ma| 84 49 69 132 43 239 108 Nt| 48 66 126 37 215 97 Ny| 54 79 34 127 64 Sh| 102 51 168 80 Wz| 63 346 146 Yg| 102 47 Ys| 210 Average S-band SNRs by baseline | Ag Ft Ht Ho Kk Ma Nt Ny Sh Wz Yg Ys AVG --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ag| 15 25 19 25 16 36 15 - 22 17 19 20 Ft| 41 31 37 29 61 23 23 37 22 33 31 Ht| 41 - 49 102 32 36 68 30 60 50 Ho| 38 24 37 18 28 29 24 33 30 Kk| 31 71 33 49 48 33 40 42 Ma| 81 23 26 51 22 45 42 Nt| 52 55 113 44 94 79 Ny| 24 36 20 28 31 Sh| 37 24 30 34 Wz| 31 63 55 Yg| 25 27 Ys| 49 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode for: AGGO FORTLEZA HART15M HOBART26 KOKEE MATERA NOTO NYALES20 SESHAN25 WETTZELL YARRA12M YEBES40M Mode Tot.Rate #Chan Chan.BW Tot.BW #BBC #bits Tracks*(fan) Tot.tracks Barrel Mk341:1 512 Mbps 16 8 Mhz 128 Mhz 14 2 32*(1) 32 NONE X-band spanned bw= 720.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 277.7 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 19.13 11.48 30.61 =========================================================== Monitoring Sources Source Min Max Actual #Num #Scans 1255-177 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 2205+166 1.00 1.50 0.01 1 1 1036-529 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0 1417+273 1.00 1.50 0.12 10 4 0534-340 1.00 1.50 0.16 14 7 1737-081 1.00 1.50 0.53 45 12 2353-686 1.00 1.50 0.81 69 29 0342+147 1.00 1.50 1.07 92 9 0802-010 1.00 1.50 0.15 13 4 1221+809 1.00 1.50 1.90 163 11 Total 4.76 407 77 =========================================================== Minor Options Astro Abs 3.00 BegScan Rel 1.00 EndScan Rel 1.00 NumObs Rel 1.00 StatWt Abs 2.00 =========================================================== Major Options Subnet AgFtHtHoKkMaNtNyShWzYgYs 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 SplitTwins No =========================================================== Weighted Station 1 AGGO 2.00 2 FORTLEZA 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) Ag Ft Ht Ho Kk Ma Nt Ny Sh Wz Yg Ag Ft Ht Ho Kk Ma Nt Ny Sh Wz Yg Ft 15 Ft 13 Ht 15 20 Ht 13 15 Ho 15 20 20 Ho 13 15 15 Kk 15 20 20 20 Kk 13 15 15 15 Ma 15 20 20 20 20 Ma 13 15 15 15 15 Nt 15 20 20 20 20 20 Nt 13 15 15 15 15 15 Ny 15 20 20 20 20 20 20 Ny 13 15 15 15 15 15 15 Sh 15 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 Sh 13 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 Wz 15 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 Wz 13 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 Yg 15 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 Yg 13 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 Ys 15 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 Ys 13 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15