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IRAM staff at Pico:
OoD until Tuesday morning: Gloria Liñan (day), Joaquin Santiago (night)
OoD for the rest of the week: Enrique Lobato (day), Pedro Martinez (night)
Rx & Astro: Dave John, Carlos Duran, Miguel Sanchez, Pablo Torne, Angel Bongiovanni
Relevant hardware conditions at starting:
- Air pipes, wiring, sensors and control of the vertex are being improved by Rx team along this week. Styrofoam membrane in standard position before NIKA2 observations. No petals installed yet in the vertex. Some pieces of foam layers wait to be replaced between the petals and the styrofoam membrane.
- 15:30 (LT): Last NIKA2 cooling down steps (DJ): turning on amplifiers of 1 mm arrays. No evident PT noise. Bad KIDs (window closed): 16, 1, 25 (ar1, 2, 3)
- 20:20 (LT): Opening NIKA2 window, El. 60 deg. Waiting for a final T_MC stabilization (172 mK)