NIKA October 10th, 2015 / S1

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2015-10-10


Following not updated

.Cryostat Temperature: 170mK cooling down slowly

Modulation frequency: 10kHz 1mm, 5kHz 2mm

Opacity is measured with the new taumeter at 225 GHz

Nasmyth offsets : 0, 0

Set Focus : we start at -2mm (not at all optimised, first task is try to improve on this!)


Data Repository: /home/nika2/NIKA/Data/run13_X/scan24_X

Scan

UT

Source

Command

Az

El

Pointing X, Y, Focus

Tau225

Comment

12

12h10m

Mars

Track

240

46

0,0,-1.3

0.3

going on source, checking that tuning is ok...

13-17

12h14m

Mars

Focuslissold

240

45

0,0, (-1.3 -1.9 -2.5 -0.7 -0.1)

0.25

start with a focuslissold : pb, no good data (disk not mounted)

18-22

12h14m

Mars

Focuslissold

240

45

0,0, (-1.3 -1.9 -2.5 -0.7 -0.1)

0.25

no subscan gt 0 and very small data recorded ?

23

12h14m

Mars

pointingcross

240

45

0,0, -1.3

0.25

ditto

24

12h14m

Mars

pointingcross

240

45

0,0, -1.3

0.25

ditto

30

13h08m

Mars

pointingcross

240

45

0,0, -1.3

0.25

ditto

31

13h08m

Mars

pointingcross

240

45

0,0, -1.3

0.25

Ok, data are finally coming! Alain repaired a problem in the C read_data procedure as well as a bug in the tuning. Great!

32-36

13h30m

Mars

focuslissold

258

30

0,0, -1.3

0.3

Focus seems better towards high values..

37

13h40m

Mars

focuslissold

258

30

0,0, 0

0.3

Canceled! Doesn't like to have focus set to 0...

38-42

13h43m

Mars

focuslissold

258

28.5

0,0, 0.1

0.3

New focus procedure centered on 0.1