Tohban Report 2017-01-25

Tohban Reports
Start Date:	18 January 2017
End Date:	25 January 2017
Tohban:	Martin Fivian
Tohban email:	mfivian@ssl.berkeley.edu
Next Tohban:	TBD
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Solar Activity

Two new active regions (12627, 12628) developed and are currently roughly speaking in the center of the solar disk.

However, the Sun was mostly quiet with a goes base level around B0. On January 21, three C-flares occurred with good RHESSI coverage.

The hsi_tohban_flare_counter is currently not working because the quicklook data processing doesn't recognize the flares.

Memory Management

Decimation was normal/vigorous for the full time period, with the SSR at about 0% at the end of each day's BGS contacts.

Spacecraft Status

On January 19, Detector 8 has been switched off and Detector 1 has been switched on.

Detectors 1 and 3 are recording events.

The Cryocooler power is steady at 75W. The cold tip and cold plate temperatures have come down with the sun fraction running through a maximum on January 21. The cold tips are currently at about 124 and 126K, and the cold plates are at about 147 and 148K. For details see:

http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~ayshih/soh/latest_temperatures.pdf

The Attenuators logic has been re-enabled on January 23 because of increasing probability of flares around 50% for C-flares, 10% for M-flares and non-zero for X-flares.) Det 3 is used for the attenuator logic and the thresholds have been set to corresponding to a deadtime of 9%. The current deadtime Det.3 is about 5%. However, it's expected that the deadtime will slightly increase with decreasing sun fraction and rising detector temperatures.

Data Gaps

None:

Spacecraft Management

Decimation	Normal/Vigorous
HLAT Decimation	Rear decimation
Night time data (fronts)	plus/minus 4 minutes from daylight
Night time data (rears)	plus/minus 4 minutes from daylight
Require extra passes?	No
Requirement for moving pointer?	No
Attenuator operation	logic enabled
Detector problems?	See notes above.