Daily Reports
Bilal Ladjelate, Thomas Rose, Laurence Perotto, Stavroula Katsioli, Marco De Petris, Carsten Kramer arrive at the telescope for the 3rd NIKA2 week of the summer semester.
Oct 29th, Tuesday
16:00UT Thomas & Bilal start. Bilal gives a training session to the first-time users. One issue was noticed by AS/BL: periodic tracking glitches in Azimuth by up to +/-6". These are seen in all subscans. Pattern changes with scanning direction. Glitches are a bit reduced in height when reducing scanning speed. There is practically no wind. Elevation tracking shows no problems. However, no action was taken until Robert's mail the following morning, i.e. the pool projects were observed
21:00UT Lawrence & Stavroula take over night shift. No other issues: NIKA2, IMBfits, piic all working well. Variable weather between 0.4 and >0.8.
Oct 30th, Wednesday
05:00UT Marco & Carsten take over the morning shift. tau~0.4 (225GHz) mostly and rather stable. 091-19 continued. Pointing on nearby 0716+714. Focus on 0316+413.
around 8:00UT tau_225GHZ decreased down to 0.3. Still on the Project 091-19.
09:00UT: The periodic Az-tracking glitches are somewhat reduced in amplitude when reducing scanning speeds. For 091-19, we decide to continue scanning with 40"/s, not 60"/s for 40<El<60. A few NCS alarms: "antMD bad trace".
12:00UT: stopped. Reboot of vac1. Reset of encoders. Reboot of all mrt-lx* and vme machines became necessary.
18:00UT: Up and running again, the Az-glitches are still there. No wind. tau225~0.5 and very variable with clouds.
Oct 31st, Thursday
tau225>1. Only test observations. A possible timeline for EMIR 3mm backup projects has been prepared.
07:00: Clear sky. Only few high clouds. tau225 still above 1.0. Decision to go to EMIR.