Daily Reports
Oct 22nd, Tuesday
Special session before the beginning of the NIKA2 Pool - Summer 2024
10:30-13:00; Martino, Dave, Jean, Angel: New sweep for NIKA2; old sweep files: run79*.ini; new sweep files: run80*.ini. NIKA2 cold since Oct. 21st afternoon. Cryostat window closed and Al-tape sealed.
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 run79.ini ('old sweep') and run80.ini ('new sweep') configuration files. Corresponding screen-shots are given below (pending).
In order to simplify swapping procedures between old and new sweep or viceversa, and keep the same run number after the last cooling down (80), new filenames have been defined in the nika2@nika2-a:~/NIKA/Processing/NIKA_lib_V3_IRAM/Acquisition/experiments/ folder: * To activate the old sweep, total power, do 'cp -p run80_tp_old_sweep.ini run80.ini' * To activate the new sweep, total power, do 'cp -p run80_tp_new_sweep.ini run80.ini' Then prepare final 'tp' to 'pol' files for science observations. Don't forget changing run definition in nika2@nika2-a:~/ folder.
Note:
Monitor status and noise traces, 'old sweep', bad KIDs Ar1: x/1055; Ar2: y/573; Ar3: z/1056.
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Monitor status and noise traces, 'new sweep', bad KIDs Ar1: xx/1061; Ar2: yy/581; Ar3: zz/1077.
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Oct 23rd, Wednesday
00:00-03:33; Ioannis, Jean, Angel: tonight's plan includes (i) checking instrument health, pointing and focus (old sweep: run79_tp.ini file), (ii) getting beam maps in TP & POL (new sweep: run80*.ini files), (iii) getting NIKA2-POL efficiency measurements (primary and secondary calibrators) pending from first tests of telescope's behaviour after painting (see this site), with (iv) NIKA2-POL calibration of selected polarised sources recently observed with SMA.