Tohban Report 2010-10-27

Tohban Reports
Start Date:	20 Oct 2010
End Date:	27 Oct 2010
Tohban:	Lindsay Glesener
Tohban email:	glesener@ssl.berkeley.edu
Next Tohban:	Claire Raftery
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Ops: Trouble with PDP on BGS station; "manual" processing necessary. Not losing data, but showing up as many gaps, which will be filled in. Needs replacement.

SSR: 5% at end of passes. Max 40%. CP2 temp 98.5 K. Spun up on Monday, no HV changes.

Solar Activity

The quieter

This week NOAA AR 11112 further evolved and produced a number of C class flares and an M class flare. AR 11112 will rotate off the disk in the next 2 days. There are currently 6 active regions on disk.

How many GOES flares occurred?
  Flares above B, C, M, X class were     29     7     1     0
And how many of these are listed in the RHESSI flare list?
  Flares above B, C, M, X class were     15     4     1     0
And how many had EXCELLENT coverage?
  Flares above B, C, M, X class were     10     1     1     0

Memory Management

The minimum SSR level is around ~16% with a maximum of ~36%. Some extra weilheim passes have been scheduled to account for this.

Data Gaps

N_GAPS 1 GAP START TIME GAP END TIME GAP (SEC) 2010-10-17T09:20:00.000 -- 2010-10-17T17:35:00.000 29700.000

Spacecraft Status

No commanding changes this week. Spin rate is 14.65 and we remain in normal/vigorous decimation mode, with 4 minutes of data taken on each side of the eclipse.