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== Solar Activity ==
== Solar Activity ==


Solar activity this week was moderate. A Major Flare Watch was called for AR 11726 as the active region is developing and retains its beta-gamma-delta configuration. There are currently 6 active regions on the disk. The most active being 11726 which has produced a several C class flares in the last 48 hours and one M1.0 on April 22.  
Solar activity this week was moderate. Many C class flares were produced by NOAA 11726 in the earlier half of the week and by NOAA 11730/11731 in the later half of the week. There are currently 6 active regions on the disk.  


How many GOES flares occurred?
How many GOES flares occurred?
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== Detector issues ==
== Detector issues ==


Detector 9 didn't show any dropouts this week. Jeremy followed the issue trying to find a correlation between spacecraft systems and the dropouts, however he didn't find any correlation.
 


== Other notes ==
== Other notes ==


Brian reported an overall increase in temperature and cryocooler power. Also, an increase in cryocooler accelerometer amplitude is seen with a decrease in cryocooler efficiency. A rebalancing of the cryocooler was proposed as a measure to lower the power consumption and the overall increase trend in temperature. The most likely cause for this effect is contamination.
On April 25, a rebalancing of the cryocooler was performed as a measure to lower the power consumption and the overall increase trend in temperature. However, increasing/decreasing of both amplitude and phase of the balancer only led to vibration increase. The amplitude and phase were put back to original values.
 
Brian reported further changes in state-of-health plots.  Since last week, the Sun fraction has increased to peak at 0.71 and the Cold Plate 2 temperature has decreased to 111 K. This is to be compared with 106.5 K at the time of the previous similar peak in the Sun fraction that occurred about Feb. 10. So there has been a 4.5 K increase in about 2.5 months or about 20 K per year. The accelerometer reading has stayed constant just below 16 mg for the last week or so.


== Spacecraft Management ==
== Spacecraft Management ==

Revision as of 17:00, 1 May 2013


Tohban Reports
Start Date: 24 Apr 2013
End Date: 01 May 2013
Tohban: Mitsuo Oka
Tohban email: moka@ssl.berkeley.edu
Next Tohban: TBD
List all reports



Solar Activity

Solar activity this week was moderate. Many C class flares were produced by NOAA 11726 in the earlier half of the week and by NOAA 11730/11731 in the later half of the week. There are currently 6 active regions on the disk.

How many GOES flares occurred?

 Flares above B, C, M, X class were      3    72     0     0

And how many of these are listed in the RHESSI flare list?

 Flares above B, C, M, X class were      3    55     0     0

And how many had EXCELLENT coverage?

 Flares above B, C, M, X class were      1    30     0     0

There were RHESSI flares/GOES flares 507 / 75 over the time range 23-Apr-13 30-Apr-13


Memory Management

The SSR was mostly emptying at the end of the daily passes during the beginning of the week.


Spacecraft Status

The cold plate 1 and 2 are at 114 K and 112 K respectively. Spint rate is a 14.6 rpm


Data Gaps

There was no data gaps this week.

Detector issues

Other notes

On April 25, a rebalancing of the cryocooler was performed as a measure to lower the power consumption and the overall increase trend in temperature. However, increasing/decreasing of both amplitude and phase of the balancer only led to vibration increase. The amplitude and phase were put back to original values.

Brian reported further changes in state-of-health plots. Since last week, the Sun fraction has increased to peak at 0.71 and the Cold Plate 2 temperature has decreased to 111 K. This is to be compared with 106.5 K at the time of the previous similar peak in the Sun fraction that occurred about Feb. 10. So there has been a 4.5 K increase in about 2.5 months or about 20 K per year. The accelerometer reading has stayed constant just below 16 mg for the last week or so.

Spacecraft Management

Decimation Normal/vigorous
HLAT Decimation Rear decimation weight 6, no front decimation
Night time data (fronts) +/- 4 minutes
Night time data (rears) Taking data at nights
Require extra passes? No
Requirement for moving pointer? No
Attenuator operation Normal
Detector problems? No