Tohban Report 2015-09-30

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Tohban Reports
Start Date: 23 Sep 2015
End Date: 30 Sep 2015
Tohban: Lindsay Glesener
Tohban email: glesener@ssl.berkeley.edu
Next Tohban: TBD
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Contents

Solar Activity

Very active week! There were two active regions (12422 and 12423) that produced many C and M flares. 2423 is now just rotated off (so keep an eye out for awesome occulted events...) and 2422 is a few days away from the west limb. A Major Flare Watch was called a few days ago and is still in effect, so high activity is expected to continue.

How many GOES flares occurred?
  Flares above B, C, M, X class were     17    47    15     0
And how many of these are listed in the RHESSI flare list?
  Flares above B, C, M, X class were     10    26     9     0
And how many had EXCELLENT coverage?
  Flares above B, C, M, X class were      0     0     0     0

There were RHESSI flares/GOES flares         162 /           79
over the time range 23-Sep-15 30-Sep-15

Memory Management

The SSR is a bit high due to high solar activity, with a max of 48% and at 28% after the last pass set today.

The SSR started the week almost emptying. However, after the HV drop on D4, slow events from D4 and D6 were high enough to keep steadily increasing the SSR fill. This was even BEFORE solar activity picked up. Because of this, I proposed that it might be a good idea to disable events on D4, with the reasoning that those events aren't giving us good data and are just eating up the SSR. Because things didn't quite get bad enough that we were really in trouble, I did not implement this suggestion. Future tohbans should keep it in mind as a last resort.

Temperatures

The cold plate temps have come down a bit, consistent with solar fraction. CP1 = 134.7K, CP2 = 133.1K.

Data Gaps

No data gaps as of Tuesday evening.

Detector issues

2015-266-19:24:00 /IDPUTABLE3 OFFSET=FRONTSLOWDAC
2015-266-19:24:12 /IDPLOAD VALUE=0x1C   ;was 0x80
2015-266-19:25:51 /IHVDAC DETECTOR=4, VOLTAGE=134 (2598 V)

again at eclipse entry. The detector remained segmented. The events should be checked to see what the ULD rate actually was before (and after) the HV turndown.

2015-273-03:00:43 /itmon value=AFE8 (Detector 9 events on)
2015-273-03:01:09 /IHVDAC DETECTOR=9, VOLTAGE=26


Other notes

The idea was brought up to turn OFF one or multiple detectors (both HV and preamp) in order to save power and thus cooling ability. We could try this initially with D9, since we're not taking events from this detector. But first, we should assess the data from the time when the D9 events were turned back on just prior to the HV drop on the 29th/30th.

Spacecraft Management

It's about time for a spinup.


Decimation Active/Vigorous
HLAT Decimation Rear decimation weight 6, no front decimation
Night time data (fronts) +/- 4 minutes
Night time data (rears) +/- 4 minutes
Require extra passes? No
Requirement for moving pointer? No
Attenuator operation Looks ok.
Detector problems? See notes above.
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