JADE-1303 (Japanese Dynamic Earth observation by VLBI) 2013 March 14-15 Notes prepared by Y. Mukai, GSI/AES Geospatial Information Authority of Japan Session JD1303 Start 2013-073 02:00:00 MAR. 14 End 2013-074 01:51:34 MAR. 15 Stations 7 Ai AIRA A Cc CHICHI10 C K1 KASHIM11 R Kg KOGANEI G Ts TSUKUB32 T Vs VERAISGK S Vm VERAMZSW M Duration: 24 hours Correlator: TSUKUBA(GSI) Purpose ====================================================================== The purpose of the JADE sessions is to monitor the plate motion and the local crustal movement around Japan. In 2013 fiscal year, JADE session will be carried out once a month. Parameter listing ====================================================================== Experiment: JD1303 Description AICCK1KGTSVMVS Scheduler: GSI Correlator: GSI Start: 2013-073-02:00:00 End: 2013-074-02:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2013073 (2013.20)( 16366 MJD, THUR 14 MAR.) Greenwich sidereal time: 13:27: 0.00 ( 2: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 23h 36.7m -2d 31.2 First observations ====================================================================== Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Ai Cc K1 Kg Ts Vm Vs 1921-293 13073-020000| 20 20 20 20 20 20 20| Last observations ====================================================================== Source Start DURATIONS 3C418 13074-014015| 480 480 480 90 | 1636+473 13074-014217| 360 360 | 1954-388 13074-014910| 470 460 100 470| 2155+312 13074-015134| 340 340 | ====================================================================== SKED Summary from file /opt/sked/skd_files/jd1303.skd for experiment JD1303 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 2.8 Min = 0.0 Max = 25.8 (Baseline K1-Kg on 0537-441) RMS = 5.6 Total time: 1437 minutes ( 24.0 hours). Key: Ai=AIRA Cc=CHICHI10 K1=KASHIM11 Kg=KOGANEI Ts=TSUKUB32 Vm=VERAMZSW Vs=VERAISGK Ai Cc K1 Kg Ts Vm Vs Avg % obs. time: 72 61 68 67 31 75 62 62 % cal. time: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 % slew time: 8 7 10 10 18 14 13 12 % idle time: 18 31 21 22 50 10 24 26 total # scans: 194 182 268 262 344 198 184 233 # scans/hour : 8 8 11 11 14 8 8 10 Avg scan (sec): 322 290 219 221 77 326 290 248 # data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 # Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Total GBytes: 1123 949 1057 1042 478 1161 962 968 Total GB(M5): 998 844 940 927 425 1032 855 860 # of tapes : 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 tape change times (hhmm): Total number of tapes: 7.0 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 6020.2 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Ai Cc K1 Kg Ts Vm Vs StnTotal --------------------------------------------- Ai| 134 173 174 186 155 140 962 Cc| 143 143 179 136 131 866 K1| 258 261 187 149 1171 Kg| 255 187 150 1167 Ts| 193 175 1249 Vm| 139 997 Vs| 884 Number of 2-station scans: 88 Number of 3-station scans: 51 Number of 4-station scans: 34 Number of 5-station scans: 44 Number of 6-station scans: 26 Number of 7-station scans: 113 Total # of scans, observations: 356 3648 Recording mode ====================================================================== EUR2-SX SX Recording mode setup for: AIRA CHICHI10 KASHIM11 KOGANEI TSUKUB32 VERAISGK VERAMZSW Mode Tot.Rate Tot.BandW #chan #bits Barrel Mk341:1 128.000 Mbits 64.000 MHz 14 1 NONE Chan.BW #Subpasses Tracks(*fan) Tot.tracks Speed 4.00 MHz 1 16(*1) 16 0.00 X-band spanned bw= 360.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 140.2 MHz S-band spanned bw= 80.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 30.2 MHz Effective number of channels recorded per sub-pass X S Total 10.000 6.000 16.000 Major Options ====================================================================== Subnet AiCcK1KgTsVmVs SkyCov Yes AllBlGood Yes MaxAngle 180 MinAngle 15 MinBetween 60 MinSunDist 15 MaxSlewTime 300 TimeWindow 24.00 MinSubNetSize 2 NumSubNet 1 Best 20 FillIn Yes FillMinSub 3 FillMinTime 120 FillBest 80 Add_ps 30.0 SNRWts Yes Minor Options ====================================================================== Option Norm Wt Aux_Parm NumObs Rel 5.00 SkyCov Rel 1.00 StatIdle Rel 1.00 StatWt Abs 1.00 SNR ====================================================================== Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans X-band (margin 3) S-band (margin 2) Ai Cc K1 Kg Ts Vm Ai Cc K1 Kg Ts Vm Cc 16 Cc 14 K1 17 16 K1 14 14 Kg 17 16 18 Kg 14 14 15 Ts 20 19 20 20 Ts 16 15 16 16 Vm 17 16 18 18 20 Vm 14 14 15 15 16 Vs 17 16 18 18 20 18 Vs 14 14 15 15 16 15