Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1963 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: R1963 Description IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN Start: 2020-252-17:00:00 End: 2020-253-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2020252 (2020.69) ( 19101 MJD, TUES 8SEP.) Greenwich sidereal time: 16:12:52 (17:00:00 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 11h 10.3m 5d 19.7 =========================================================== Important Station Information Ny Alesund's SEFDs were increased to 3000 for both bands to compensate for their warm receiver. =========================================================== 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 On Kv Sh Wz Ys 0322+222 20252-170000| 137 163 138 163 132 | 1334-127 20252-170000| 125 68 120 54 53 125 79 67| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ag Ft Ht Ho Kk Ma Nt Ny On Kv Sh Wz Ys 1424-418 20253-165243| 310 218 310 | 1606+106 20253-165355| 27 20 40 49 49 44| 0458-020 20253-165408| 23 20 57 57 | 1741-038 20253-165537| 128 133 142 142 136| OJ287 20253-165558| 103 103 | 0104-408 20253-165649| 44 44 20 | 1057-797 20253-165844| 71 71 | 1936-155 20253-165856| 59 59 59 59 59 59| 0402-362 20253-165918| 37 37 | =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1963.skd for experiment R1963 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 8.7 Min = 0.0 Max = 160.0 (Baseline Ag-Kk on 2243-123) 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 On=ONSALA60 Kv=SEJONG Sh=SESHAN25 Wz=WETTZELL Ys=YEBES40M Ag Ft Ht Ho Kk Ma Nt Ny On Kv Sh Wz Ys Avg % obs. time: 70 57 54 36 48 57 44 64 65 60 40 64 59 55 % cal. time: 3 3 4 4 4 5 5 4 5 5 6 5 5 4 % slew time: 5 36 22 40 23 32 44 20 24 21 47 11 28 28 % idle time: 21 3 18 20 24 5 5 11 6 13 7 18 7 13 total # scans: 258 277 370 312 379 416 434 371 391 435 481 451 449 386 # scans/hour : 11 12 15 13 16 17 18 15 16 18 20 19 19 16 Avg scan (sec): 235 179 126 99 110 119 88 150 143 120 72 123 113 128 # data tracks: 32 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 32 Total TB(M5): 3.88 3.17 2.98 1.97 2.67 3.17 2.45 3.55 3.57 3.34 2.21 3.55 3.25 3.06 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ag Ft Ht Ho Kk Ma Nt Ny On Kv Sh Wz Ys Total --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ag| 224 133 37 43 73 75 31 69 0 0 63 99 847 Ft| 150 20 38 100 107 51 89 4 3 92 129 1007 Ht| 86 0 177 198 89 133 67 83 169 197 1482 Ho| 159 16 12 33 15 153 164 14 11 720 Kk| 94 88 156 125 225 229 135 109 1401 Ma| 390 262 336 150 169 363 350 2480 Nt| 246 316 146 177 369 377 2501 Ny| 296 218 216 280 250 2128 On| 173 183 344 313 2392 Kv| 397 176 142 1851 Sh| 211 172 2004 Wz| 373 2589 Ys| 2522 Number of 2-station scans: 239 Number of 3-station scans: 240 Number of 4-station scans: 171 Number of 5-station scans: 81 Number of 6-station scans: 81 Number of 7-station scans: 94 Number of 8-station scans: 101 Number of 9-station scans: 85 Number of 10-station scans: 2 Number of 11-station scans: 0 Number of 12-station scans: 0 Number of 13-station scans: 0 Total number of scans: 1094 Total number of obs: 11962 Total integrated obs-time: 1235722 Average obs-time: 103.3 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: | 2181| 1979| 1829| 1149| 1038| 837| 696| 564| 427| 317| 189| 195| 141| 90| 93| 67| 41| 32| 97| Average X-band SNRs by baseline | Ag Ft Ht Ho Kk Ma Nt Ny On Kv Sh Wz Ys AVG -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ag| 23 32 19 24 28 21 25 26 - - 37 62 30 Ft| 63 34 42 70 55 57 64 23 73 92 179 70 Ht| 56 - 87 67 58 73 42 82 122 217 91 Ho| 50 77 46 51 82 43 96 163 150 63 Kk| 45 35 43 39 40 76 65 106 54 Ma| 90 65 106 38 75 162 284 119 Nt| 47 76 28 60 120 215 94 Ny| 66 34 63 99 158 72 On| 37 69 152 254 106 Kv| 78 58 87 52 Sh| 108 171 86 Wz| 397 157 Ys| 228 Average S-band SNRs by baseline | Ag Ft Ht Ho Kk Ma Nt Ny On Kv Sh Wz Ys AVG -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ag| 16 28 22 29 18 33 15 19 - - 24 21 22 Ft| 40 32 37 28 54 22 27 16 21 36 35 31 Ht| 48 - 45 81 31 41 27 41 59 55 49 Ho| 46 27 50 24 25 21 36 39 32 35 Kk| 41 79 40 37 35 53 55 46 46 Ma| 75 28 38 19 30 53 48 44 Nt| 48 65 34 57 92 85 70 Ny| 28 19 27 40 32 32 On| 19 28 52 44 40 Kv| 31 27 21 26 Sh| 40 33 37 Wz| 63 55 Ys| 50 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX SX Recording mode for: AGGO FORTLEZA HART15M HOBART26 KOKEE MATERA NOTO NYALES20 ONSALA60 SEJONG SESHAN25 WETTZELL 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 1147+245 1.00 1.50 1.05 126 9 0711+356 1.00 1.50 0.01 1 1 0202+149 1.00 1.50 0.99 118 11 1647-296 1.00 1.50 0.05 6 2 1928+154 1.00 1.50 0.14 17 6 2142-758 1.00 1.50 0.10 12 12 2243-123 1.00 1.50 0.43 52 17 1116-462 1.00 1.50 0.05 6 4 0818-128 1.00 1.50 0.94 113 16 0615+820 1.00 1.50 1.62 194 10 Total 5.39 645 88 =========================================================== 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 AgFtHtHoKkMaNtNyOnKvShWzYs 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 On Kv Sh Wz Ag Ft Ht Ho Kk Ma Nt Ny On Kv Sh Wz 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 On 15 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 On 13 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 Kv 15 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 Kv 13 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 Sh 15 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 Sh 13 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 Wz 15 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 Wz 13 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 Ys 15 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 Ys 13 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15