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'''17h40 UT:''' T4K=272K. Tstill=280K. == January 21th 2015 == Cooling down still going on. Tests on acquisition software in Grenoble still going on. STATUS OF THE INSTRUMENT '''06h00 UT:''' T4K=43K. Tstill=47K. '''06h00 UT:''' Lowering to 550mbar. '''08h20 UT:''' T4K=23.6K. Tstill=30K. Flux set at 360mbar '''10h00 UT:''' T4K=11K. Tstill=18K. Flux at 280mbar '''11h30 UT:''' T4K=7K. Tstill=8K. Flux at 200mbar. We pump directly from ev17 (ev17, ev19,ev1,ev6 open, ev5 closed). The slope is much better. '''12h30 UT:''' T4K=5.5K. Tstill=4.5K. Ready to condensate, but we lost connection with the automate. Waiting the end of the lunch at IRAM to call somebody. '''13h30 UT:''' T4K=5.4K. Tstill=4.27K, R_BM=1.35kOhm Flux at 170mbar. '''Condensation Started'''. '''15h50 UT:''' Turbo on. ev11 closed with 40mbar on J5. '''17h00 UT:''' '''84mK!!!''' '''18h00 UT:''' Stop compressor. Injection pressure very low. == January 22nd 2015 == Nothing happened. The cryostat is still cold at 84mK with injection pressure low. == January 23rd 2015 == - Martino, Nicolas and Andrea arrived to the telescope. The control room is arranged with all the NIKA computers. Mini mac 2 seems to work weel so we chose to put all the instruments here (nikel1, nikel2, antenna, elvin, control). - Arrays are connected. Tuning is not working well for the moment so we optimized detectors with traditional balayage procedure. - Mppsync is connected. - 150mK stage regulated at 150mK - We got the telescope at 7pm and started to observe almost right away. We could find the focus in two iterations: - We then derived a first OTF geometry to compute kid offsets. Then, choosing kid 494 as the reference detector (like in the previous run), we could derive the Nasmyth offsets required to center the planet on this reference kid, and redo a geometry. - We could check on a bright quasar that we were indeed centered and that our reduction scripts were still ok. - We also did two skydips that went fine as far as acquisition is concerned. We'll look at them in detail tomorrow. |
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January 20th 2015
9h00 UT: Santiago stars operations to cool down the NIKA cryostat in contact with Andrea and Martino from Grenoble
STATUS OF THE INSTRUMENT
9h00 UT: Connection with automate restored. It does not work well, we lost connection few times in the morning. We probably need to change but for the moment we choose to continue.
9h00 UT: Status of the Camera pulse tube : J5=352mbar
09h30 UT: Santiago connected the cryostat to the leak detector.
10h00 UT: Pumped the dilution circuit (until Jpi=8x10e-3mbar). Trap pumped and emptied.
10h30 UT: Warm impedance test: about 30mbar/min at 3bar. Consistent with the last cooling down.
11h00 UT: Circulation throught the capillar starts.
12h00 UT: Leak test: OK
13h30 UT: M5 and M6 mounted. Optical alignment of the cryostat with Santiago, OK.
14h00 UT. Pulse Tube on. Low pressure and High pressure OK. Mixture circulates at 2.95bar (J4) and 950mbar (J2 with preref on).
16h20 UT: Lowering to 850mbar. Keep this value for the night.
17h40 UT: T4K=272K. Tstill=280K.
January 21th 2015
Cooling down still going on. Tests on acquisition software in Grenoble still going on.
STATUS OF THE INSTRUMENT
06h00 UT: T4K=43K. Tstill=47K.
06h00 UT: Lowering to 550mbar.
08h20 UT: T4K=23.6K. Tstill=30K. Flux set at 360mbar
10h00 UT: T4K=11K. Tstill=18K. Flux at 280mbar
11h30 UT: T4K=7K. Tstill=8K. Flux at 200mbar. We pump directly from ev17 (ev17, ev19,ev1,ev6 open, ev5 closed). The slope is much better.
12h30 UT: T4K=5.5K. Tstill=4.5K. Ready to condensate, but we lost connection with the automate. Waiting the end of the lunch at IRAM to call somebody.
13h30 UT: T4K=5.4K. Tstill=4.27K, R_BM=1.35kOhm Flux at 170mbar. Condensation Started.
15h50 UT: Turbo on. ev11 closed with 40mbar on J5.
17h00 UT: 84mK!!!
18h00 UT: Stop compressor. Injection pressure very low.
January 22nd 2015
Nothing happened. The cryostat is still cold at 84mK with injection pressure low.
January 23rd 2015
- Martino, Nicolas and Andrea arrived to the telescope. The control room is arranged with all the NIKA computers. Mini mac 2 seems to work weel so we chose to put all the instruments here (nikel1, nikel2, antenna, elvin, control).
- Arrays are connected. Tuning is not working well for the moment so we optimized detectors with traditional balayage procedure.
- Mppsync is connected.
- 150mK stage regulated at 150mK
- We got the telescope at 7pm and started to observe almost right away. We could find the focus in two iterations:
- We then derived a first OTF geometry to compute kid offsets. Then, choosing kid 494 as the reference detector (like in the previous run), we could derive the Nasmyth offsets required to center the planet on this reference kid, and redo a geometry.
- We could check on a bright quasar that we were indeed centered and that our reduction scripts were still ok.
- We also did two skydips that went fine as far as acquisition is concerned. We'll look at them in detail tomorrow.