Daily Reports
Oct 10th, Monday
Special session before the beginning of the NIKA2 Pool - Summer 2022
10:30-13:00; Martino, Alessandro, Dave, Santiago, Angel: (transcription of the e-mail from Martino) "(...)this morning we have prepared the new sweeps for NIKA2. They are ready to be used: when starting the acquisition with the config file 'run73.ini' you'll get the 'new sweep'. To use the 'old sweep', you have to use the 'run72.ini' configuration file. Unfortunately, it looks like tonight the opacity could be pretty high, but let's hope for the best. Just as a reminder: the new sweep is made with the cryostat window closed."
Before the official time for starting the scheduled tests of the Pool, we started the DAQ twice to get some samples of noise traces (NIKA2 window still being closed, telescope stopped due to bad weather) using the run72.ini ('old sweep') and run73.ini ('new sweep') configuration files. Corresponding screen-shots are given below.
Monitor status and noise traces, 'old sweep', bad KIDs Ar1: 36/1055; Ar2: 172/573; Ar3: 39/1056.
Monitor status and noise traces, 'new sweep', bad KIDs Ar1: 31/1061; Ar2: 7/581; Ar3: 57/1077.
18:00-22:00; Angel: tonight's plan includes a discrete pointing session, getting beam maps and other calibrations with NIKA2. If conditions are cool, we would start science observations. Unfortunately, the telescope is stopped since 13:30 (rainy, foggy). At 18:00, tau_225GHz > 1 with thick cloud intervals. Conditions improved (tau_225GHz ~0.6) at ~19h for EMIR-backup project 019-22 (3 mm). Forecasts improved a bit too. G34.3+0.2 line calibrator, reference off-position, and EMR observed once (submap5_beta) for project 019-22. The target is too low for continuing. Switched to project 083-22. Opacity ~0.7 and a bit unstable. Scans 20221010s174 and s175 got stuck. After pointing/focus, 3 reps. on 39568-high were observed.
22:30-02:30; Pablo: Opacity dropped to ~0.6; EMIR backup project 018-22 (3 mm, Psw) observed. One rep. of domapC1 and domapC2, both with setup 1. Telescope got stuck when OTFmap 20221010s222 was running. Repeated.
02:30-XX; Angel: