Expanded Owens Valley Solar Array

EOVSA (Expanded Owens Valley Solar Array) is a new solar-dedicated radio interferometer operated by the New Jersey Institute of Technology. This wiki serves as the site for EOVSA documentation.

EOVSA Documentation

• General
  • Downconversion and Frequency Tuning
  • Dealing with Radio Frequency Interference
  • Switching between 200 MHz and 300 MHz Correlator

• Computer-Network
  • Computing Systems
  • Network

• Control System
  • 27-m Antenna Commands
  • Schedule Commands
  • Control Commands
  • Attenuation and Level Control

• Hardware
  • Hardware Overview
  • 2.1-m Antennas
  • 27-m Antennas

• Software
  • Calibration Database
  • Stateframe Database
  • Create CASA measurement sets

• Calibration
  • Calibration Overview
  • Pointing Calibration
  • Total Power Calibration
  • System Gain Calibration
  • Reference Gain Calibration
  • Daily Gain Calibration
  • Delay Calibration
  • Bandpass Calibration
  • Polarization Calibration
  • Antenna Position
  • Calibrator Survey

• Starburst

Using EOVSA Data

• Software Basics
  • CASA Guides
  • Miriad Guides
  • SolarSoft IDL
  • Basic GitHub Tutorial

• EOVSA Data Analysis Guide
  • Spectrogram Software

System Software

• LabVIEW software
• Python code Github repository

Observing Log

2016 November

2016 December

2017 January

2017 February

2017 March

2017 April

2017 May

Tohbans

Trouble Shooting Guide

Tohban Records

Flare List

Date	RHESSI Time	RHESSI Lightcurve	XSP Data	RHESSI Coverage	RHESSI Energy Range (keV)	EOVSA Time	GOES Class	Baseline Plot
May 6, 2017	20:07:24	[1]	[2]	Yes	6 - 12	20:06:49	B3.5
April 21, 2017	17:27:25	[3]	[4]	Yes	6 - 12	17:26:51	B4.1
April 17, 2017	23:44:20	[5]	[6]	No		23:45:51	B2.0
	21:40:04	[7]	[8]	Yes	6 - 12	21:38:51	B7.5
	01:31:18	[9]	[10]	No		-	B3.6
April 10, 2017	18:20:52	[11]	[12]	No		18:26:51	B4.8
April 8, 2017	23:58:40	[13]	[14]	Yes	6 - 12	-	B2.3
	19:26:44	[15]	[16]	Yes	6 - 12	-	B4.9
April 7, 2017	19:46:57	[17]	[18]	No		19:47:52	C4.3
	00:23:45	[19]	[20]	Yes	12 - 25	00:23:52	C2.7
April 5, 2017	17:38:20	[21]	[22]	Yes	6 - 12		B9.1
April 4, 2017	23:42:10	[23]	[24]	Yes	25 - 50	23:40:51	C4.9
	19:41:44	[25]	[26]	No		19:42:52	B9.4
	00:39:35	[27]	[28]	Yes	12 - 25	00:37:49	C1.4
April 3, 2017	22:55:45	[29]	[30]	Yes	12 - 25	-	C2.3
	20:12:00	[31]	[32]	No		20:11:53	C5.0
	01:00:44	[33]	[34]	Yes	25 - 50	01:00:52	M1.2
April 2, 2017	20:31:18	[35]	[36]	No		20:31:49	M5.7
	18:49:33	[37]	[38]	No		18:48:52	M2.1
	16:25:30	[39]	[40]	Yes	12 - 25	16:24:50	C3.0
April 1, 2017	23:08:10	[41]	[42]	Yes	12 - 25	23:01:51	C5.1
	21:48:35	[43]	[44]	Yes	50 - 100	21:46:51	M4.4
	19:57:23	[45]	[46]	Yes	12 - 25	19:42:50	C3.7
	15:37:25	[47]	[48]	Yes	12 - 25	-	B8.1
March 31, 2017	23:05:13	[49]	[50]	No		22:57:49	C1.1
	20:49:35	[51]	[52]	Yes	6 - 12	-	B3.6
	19:15:00	[53]	[54]	Yes	6 - 12	-	B2.9
	17:36:15	[55]	[56]	Yes	12 - 25	-	C1.7
	14:46:57	[57]	[58]	No		-	B3.7
March 29, 2017	23:27:10	[59]	[60]	Yes	6 - 12	23:40:50	B6.5
March 28, 2017	00:25:30	[61]	[62]	Yes	6 - 12	-	C1.1
March 25, 2017	23:34:44	[63]	[64]	Yes	6 - 12	23:44:50	B2.3
February 23, 2017	20:52:00	[65]	[66]	Yes	6 - 12		C1.3
February 21, 2017	22:57:23	[67]	[68]	No			B3.0