Tohban Report 2015-03-04
| Tohban Reports | |
|---|---|
| Start Date: | 25 Feb 2015 |
| End Date: | 4 Mar 2015 |
| Tohban: | Milo Buitrago-Casas & Lindsay Glesener |
| Tohban email: | milo@ssl.berkeley.edu |
| Next Tohban: | Lindsay Glesener |
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Solar Activity
Overall, solar activity this week was a bit higher than last. There are 2 active regions on the disk, both at the west limb producing many C and M class flares. This is a fairly recent burst of activity that started early Tuesday; before that time solar activity was quiet-to-moderate. These two AR will rotate off any second, and there isn't a lot else active, so solar activity is expected to drop soon. There should be a day or two of good opportunity for occulted flares.
How many GOES flares occurred?
Flares above B, C, M, X class were 6 26 4 0
And how many of these are listed in the RHESSI flare list?
Flares above B, C, M, X class were 4 17 4 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 208 / 36 over the time range 24-Feb-15 03-Mar-15
Memory Management
The SSR fill slowly crept up over the week, and by Tuesday was reaching a max of almost 50%. That coincided with the burst of solar activity during last couple of days, so nighttime events were asked to be turned off this morning. Other actions should be consider for the next Tohban, like changing decimation even if solar activity is draping down and change D6 and D9 thresholds to their previous values. Currently SSR is around 23% filled.
Spacecraft Status
Data Gaps
No Data Gaps this week.
Temperatures
Cold Plate Temperatures 1 and 2 showed a similar behaviour to the one of the last week. Cryocooler is still running at 97% of maximum allowed power. Next Tohban should keep an eye on the Cryocooler parameters.
Detector issues
On January 26 we changed Rear Fast threshold for detector nine [G9] in two steps at 18:43 and 20:22 UTC
| Threshold [G9] | Rear Fast |
| Initial | 0x60 |
| Final | 0x70 |
D6 Front Fast threshold was changed on February 27, 2015 at 21:41 UTC.
| Threshold [G6] | Front Fast |
| Initial | 0x30 |
| Final | 0x40 |
Both changes seem to have done the trick in terms of reducing rates for D6 Front Fast and D9 Rear Fast.
Other notes
Is it maybe a time for an spin up?
Spacecraft Management
| Decimation | Normal/Vigorous |
| Night time data (fronts) | No full nighttime events |
| Night time data (rears) | No full nighttime events |
| Require extra passes? | No |
| Requirement for moving pointer? | No |
| Attenuator operation | Normal |