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Daily Reports (2025/10/21-28, NIKA2 run 75, Cryo run 87)

Observers on-site: Monica Rodriguez, Samuel Leclercq, Raphaël Maris, Stefano Berta and Stergios Amarantidis (AoD).

Remote observers: Michael Mattern (Saturday-Tuesday).

Operators: Sergio and Mario.

Shifts: 10-16 Raphaël; 16-22 Samuel; 22-4 Stefano; 4-10 Monica.

All times reported are in UTC (if not mentioned otherwise).

Preparatory notes

Please, remember to use the focus value of Ar1 (roughly Ar2 + 0.65 mm, but use directly the focus Ar1 monitor if possible). Please use the custom modified focus script focusOTF-Z_2025.pako.

Therefore, importantly, when checking the quality of the beam on a pointing map to decide if a new focus is needed, it is better to do it on the Ar1 map, because that's the one focused at best.

Project D01-25 (M51) requires DAQ restarting with the run87_newSweep_M51_tp.ini file. Come back to run87_neSweep_tp.ini after observing this project.

Please fill the Table with the Ar1,2,3 focus values as follows. At best, make one table per day.

Similarly, if any beam maps are taken:

October 21st, 2025, Tuesday

15:00-22:00[All]: Maintenance finished with no issues. DAQ started at 14:10 with 21/3/47 bad KIDS for arrays 1,2 and 3, respectively. Repeating the DAQ at 14:24 with 28/3/89. Trying to point at NGC7027 and MWC349 but the weather is too unstable (p2p~10-20Jy/beam), moving to K3-50A for pointing and focus (using the modified 2025 script). Moving for calib_1scan to MWC349, etc. Switching to project 053-25 (source 1803+784 better for pointing/focus). Around 17:12 we moved to a skydip and then to the normal flux calibrators.

22:00-04:00[Stefano]: ...

October 22nd, 2025, Wednesday

04:00-10:00[Monica]: ...

10:00-16:00[Raphaël]: ...

16:00-22:00[Samuel]: ...

22:00-04:00[Stefano]: ...

21:00-03:00[]: ...