Monitoring A2048 (ages) data

last month added: jan10

Sections:

Intro
How the data is processed
Median power for each strip (the system stability).
The 1 second total power samples by strip
 


Intro

    A2048 is the ages drift scan survey. It does 1200 second drift scans with a 100 Mhz bandwidth centered at 1385 Mhz. Each of these scans is called a strip. At the end of a strip the cal is fired. The observations are done close to the meridian. At the end of each month all of the strips taken during the month are processed and plots are generated showing:


How the data is processed: (top)

    A2048 does 1200 second drift scans sampling at 1 hz. It takes a 100 Mhz bandwidth centered at 1385 Mhz and uses 3 level sampling. Each 1200 second drift is a single scan or strip. After each drift scan a 1 second cal is fired and then the process repeats. For the drift scans the telescope is positioned at the meridian. The za position is set once a day. Between each drift scan a small correction is made to remain close the the J2000 declination.The processing of the drift scan data for monitoring is:
  1. compute the rms/mean by channel for n secs (1200) seconds worth of data. There must be a cal record in the file for the file to be processed.
  2. Do a robust linear fit to the rms/mean by channel throwing out outliers. The remaining channels will be the mask used to compute the total power for each spectra of the 1200 seconds (and the cal).
  3. compute the  total power (mean) for each 1 second record using the above mask.
  4. Over the entire strip compute the median of the total power using the data from 4.
  5. Compute the cal scale factor : calK/(calOn-calOff). For the cal off use the last record of the strip (the one before the cal on). If the next strip starts within 6 seconds of the cal record, include  the first record of that strip for the calOff. If there are two cal offs,  interpolate their total power to the cal On time (if not, just use the single cal off.
  6. Scale the total power data (from 4) to kelvins using the cal scale factor.
  7. Save the following to disc (one save file per day). assume there are NstripsTot total strips:
Note that the daily save files are done by ast date so they may include data from 2 different observing runs.

The save files can be input and merged using inpsav.pro. This routine creates one large array of tpI structs. It only takes strips that have 1200 seconds worth of data.


Median power for each strip. The system stability: (top)


    For each month the median power, calscale factor, and Tsys are plotted for each strip taken. The four sets of plots are:

2010  Median pwr, CalScaleFactor, and Tsys for strips
stripPwr vs 
Date
stripPwr vs
stripNumber
calSclFactor vs
stripNumber
medianTsys vs
stripNumber
  jan10.ps.pdf
jan10.ps.pdf
jan10.ps.pdf
jan10.ps.pdf
notes 2010:
2009  Median pwr, CalScaleFactor, and Tsys for strips
stripPwr vs 
Date
stripPwr vs
stripNumber
calSclFactor vs
stripNumber
medianTsys vs
stripNumber
  jan09.ps.pdf
jan09.ps.pdf
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  feb09.ps.pdf
feb09.ps.pdf
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  mar09.ps.pdf
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  apr09.ps.pdf
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  may09.ps.pdf
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  jun09.ps.pdf
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  jul09.ps.pdf
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  aug09.ps.pdf
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  nov09.ps.pdf
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nov09.ps.pdf
  dec09.ps.pdf
dec09.ps.pdf
dec09.ps.pdf
dec09.ps.pdf
notes 2009:
2008  Median pwr, CalScaleFactor, and Tsys for strips
stripPwr vs 
Date
stripPwr vs
stripNumber
calSclFactor vs
stripNumber
medianTsys vs
stripNumber
  jan08.ps.pdf
jan08.ps.pdf
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  feb08.ps.pdf
feb08.ps.pdf
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  mar08.ps.pdf
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  apr08.ps.pdf
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  may08.ps.pdf
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  jun08.ps.pdf
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  jul08.ps.pdf
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  aug08.ps.pdf
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  sep08.ps.pdf
sep08.ps.pdf
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  oct08.ps.pdf
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  nov08.ps.pdf
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nov08.ps.pdf
  dec08.ps.pdf
dec08.ps.pdf
dec08.ps.pdf
dec08.ps.pdf
notes 2008:
2007  Median pwr, CalScaleFactor, and Tsys for strips
stripPwr vs 
Date
stripPwr vs
stripNumber
calSclFactor vs
stripNumber
medianTsys vs
stripNumber
  feb07.ps.pdf
feb07.ps.pdf
feb07.ps.pdf
feb07.ps.pdf
  apr07.ps.pdf
apr07.ps.pdf
apr07.ps.pdf
apr07.ps.pdf
notes 2007:
processing: usr/a2048/mondata/compwr_do, pltcals_do


1 second total power samples vs position in strip  (top)

    The 1 second total power for a strip versus sample number of the strip are plotted for the first 10 strips of each day  ( days start at AST midnite).  Each link has 10 pages with each page holding 1 strip. The top plot on a page  is polA and the bottom plot is polB. The 7 pixels are color coded and offset for display. Black (at the bottom) is pixel 0, red pixel1, green pixel 2, etc.. These units are Tsys.  The median power value for each strip is also printed on at the page with  units of measured/optimum power (linear scale). The files are .pdf .
     Rfi has been removed from the total power computation by excluding channels with large rms/mean. 5 channels adjacent to any rfi channels are also excluded.
    You can see sources drifting through the beams.  Occasionaly  there are jumps in power with  long recovery times. These are being caused by the FAA radar in our system.
 
2010 1 second total power by strip
jan
01jan10 02jan10 03jan10 04jan10 05jan10 06jan10 07jan10
08jan10 29jan10 30jan10 31jan10
notes: 2010

 
2009 1 second total power by strip
jan
02jan09 03jan09 04jan09 05jan09 12jan09 16jan09 17jan09
18jan09 19jan09 20jan09 21jan09 22jan09
feb
27feb09 28feb09
mar
06mar09 07mar09 08mar09 09mar09 18mar09 19mar09 20mar09
21mar09 22mar09
apr
01apr09 21apr09
may
14may09 15may09 16may09 17may09 18may09 30may09 31may09
jun
01jun09 03jun09 04jun09 05jun09 06jun09 07jun09 09jun09
10jun09 11jun09 12jun09
jul
05jul09 06jul09 07jul09 08jul09 09jul09 10jul09 11jul09
12jul09 13jul09 14jul09 15jul09 16jul09 30jul09 31jul09
aug
01aug09 02aug09 04aug09 05aug09 12aug09 13aug09 15aug09
23aug09 24aug09 25aug09 26aug09 27aug09 28aug09
nov
05nov09 06nov09 11nov09 12nov09 13nov09 23nov09 24nov09
25nov09
dec
14dec09 15dec09 16dec09 17dec09 18dec09 23dec09 25dec09
26dec09 27dec09 28dec09 29dec09 30dec09 31dec09
notes: 2009
 
2008 1 second total power by strip
jan
29jan08 30jan08 31jan08
feb
05feb08 06feb08 07feb08 14feb08 16feb08 17feb08
mar
18mar08 19mar08
apr
13apr08 14apr08 15apr08 16apr08 17apr08 18apr08 21apr08
22apr08 23apr08 24apr08 25apr08 26apr08 27apr08 28apr08
29apr08 30apr08
may
01may08 02may08 03may08 09may08 10may08 11may08 12may08
13may08 14may08 15may08 16may08 19may08 22may08 23may08
24may08 25may08 26may08 27may08 28may08 29may08 30may08
jun
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jul
01jul08 04jul08 05jul08 06jul08 07jul08 08jul08 15jul08
16jul08 17jul08 18jul08 19jul08 20jul08 21jul08 22jul08
23jul08 24jul08 25jul08 27jul08 28jul08 29jul08 30jul08
aug
08aug08 09aug08 10aug08 11aug08 12aug08 13aug08
sep
23sep08
oct
31oct08
nov
05nov08 06nov08 07nov08 08nov08 09nov08 11nov08 13nov08
14nov08 15nov08 16nov08 17nov08 18nov08 19nov08 20nov08
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dec
01dec08 02dec08 03dec08 04dec08 05dec08 06dec08 07dec08
08dec08 09dec08 10dec08 11dec08 12dec08 13dec08 16dec08
17dec08 19dec08 20dec08 21dec08
notes: 2008
 
2007 1 second total power by strip
feb
01feb07 02feb07 03feb07 05feb07 06feb07 07feb07 08feb07
09feb07 10feb07 11feb07 16feb07 17feb07
apr
05apr07 06apr07 07apr07 08apr07 09apr07 10apr07

 
 
processing: usr/a2048/mondata/montp_do
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