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
  • Antenna Position (Baseline Calibration)
  • Reference Gain Calibration
  • Daily Gain Calibration
  • Delay Calibration
  • Bandpass Calibration
  • Polarization Calibration
  • Calibrator Survey

• Starburst

Using EOVSA Data

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

• EOVSA Data Analysis Guide
  • Spectrogram Software
  • Imaging
  • Flare Imaging
  • Fast Gyrosynchrotron Codes (Alexey Kuznetsov's website)

• EOVSA Modeling Guide
  • GX Simulator

• EOVSA Imaging Workshop

System Software

• LabVIEW software
• Python code Github repository

Observing Log

2016 November

2016 December

2017 January

2017 February

2017 March

2017 April

2017 May

2017 June

2017 July

2017 August

2017 September

2017 October

2017 November

2017 December

2018 January

2018 February

2018 March

2018 April

2018 July

Tohbans

Trouble Shooting Guide

Tohban Records

EOVSA Flare List

See this link for a list of EOVSA flares as a Google Spreadsheet.

Another link available at the EOVSA website.

EOVSA Publications

This is the list of links to the publications (including posters) related to EOVSA.

Kuroda et al. (2018): “Three-dimensional Forward-fit Modeling of the Hard X-ray and the Microwave Emissions of the 2015 June 22 M6.5 flare”, ApJ, 852, 32