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
  • Imaging
  • Flare Imaging

• EOVSA Modeling Guide
  • GX Simulator

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

Tohbans

Trouble Shooting Guide

Tohban Records

Flare List

Date	RHESSI Time	RHESSI Lightcurve	XSP Data	RHESSI Coverage	RHESSI Energy Range (keV)	EOVSA Time	EOVSA Image	GOES Class	Baseline Plot
Jun 3, 2017	21:43:25	Lightcurve	XSP	Yes	6 - 12	21:42:00		B2.0	Error
"	19:29:19	Lightcurve	XSP	Yes	12 - 25	19:24:00		C2.5	Plot
Jun 2, 2017	19:55:54	Lightcurve	XSP	Yes	6 - 12	19:50:00		B7.0	Plot
"	-	Lightcurve	XSP	No		17:55:00		C8.0	Plot
Jun 1, 2017	20:27:40	Lightcurve	XSP	Yes	6 - 12	20:25:00		C1.1	Plot
"	18:04:25	Lightcurve	XSP	Yes	6 - 12	17:55:00		C1.4	Plot
"	-	Lightcurve	XSP	No		17:37:00		C1.0	Plot
May 31, 2017	23:14:45	Lightcurve	XSP	Yes	12 - 25	23:12:00		C2.0	Error
"	TBD	Lightcurve	XSP	Yes		22:20:00		B9.8	Error
"	-	Lightcurve	XSP	No		20:54:00		C1.3	Error
May 28, 2017	19:28:10	Lightcurve	XSP	Yes	25 - 50	19:27:00		C3.2	Plot
May 6, 2017	20:07:24	Lightcurve	XSP	Yes	6 - 12	20:06:49		B3.5	Plot
April 21, 2017	17:27:25	Lightcurve	XSP	Yes	6 - 12	17:26:51		B4.1	Plot
April 17, 2017	-	Lightcurve	XSP	No		23:45:51		B2.0	Plot
"	21:40:04	Lightcurve	XSP	Yes	6 - 12	21:38:51		B7.5	Plot
April 10, 2017	-	Lightcurve	XSP	No		18:26:51		B4.8	Plot
April 8, 2017	23:58:40	Lightcurve	XSP	Yes	6 - 12	23:53:53		B2.3	Plot
April 7, 2017	-	Lightcurve	XSP	No		19:47:52		C4.3	Plot
"	00:23:45	Lightcurve	XSP	Yes	12 - 25	00:23:52		C2.7	Plot
April 5, 2017	17:38:20	Lightcurve	XSP	Yes	6 - 12	17:38:51		B9.1	Plot
"	-	Lightcurve	XSP	No		15:52:50		B5.9	Plot
April 4, 2017	23:42:10	Lightcurve	XSP	Yes	25 - 50	23:40:51	Image Movies	C4.9	Plot
"	-	Lightcurve	XSP	No		19:42:52		B9.4	Plot
"	00:39:35	Lightcurve	XSP	Yes	12 - 25	00:37:49		C1.4	Plot
April 3, 2017	23:51:49	Lightcurve	XSP	Yes	12 - 25	23:44:49		C1.7	Plot
"	-	Lightcurve	XSP	No		20:11:53		C5.0	Plot
"	01:00:44	Lightcurve	XSP	Yes	25 - 50	01:00:52		M1.2	Plot
April 2, 2017	-	Lightcurve	XSP	No		20:31:49		M5.7	Plot
"	-	Lightcurve	XSP	No		18:48:52		M2.1	Plot
"	16:25:30	Lightcurve	XSP	Yes	12 - 25	16:24:50	6 sfu	C3.0	Plot
April 1, 2017	23:08:10	Lightcurve	XSP	Yes	12 - 25	23:01:51	49 sfu	C5.1	Plot
"	21:48:35	Lightcurve	XSP	Yes	50 - 100	21:46:51	286 sfu	M4.4	Plot
"	19:57:23	Lightcurve	XSP	Yes	12 - 25	19:42:50	15 sfu	C3.7	Plot
"	15:37:25	Lightcurve	XSP	Yes	12 - 25	15:55:21	2.5 sfu	B8.1	Plot
March 31, 2017	-	Lightcurve	XSP	No		22:57:49		C1.1	Plot
March 29, 2017	23:27:10	Lightcurve	XSP	Yes	6 - 12	23:40:50		B6.5	Plot
March 25, 2017	23:34:44	Lightcurve	XSP	Yes	6 - 12	23:44:50		B2.3	Plot
February 23, 2017	20:52:00	Lightcurve	XSP	Yes	6 - 12	20:52:50		C1.3	Plot
"	-	Lightcurve	XSP	No		20:25:50		B5.8	Plot
February 21, 2017	-	Lightcurve	XSP	No		22:51:10		B3.0	Plot
January 25, 2017	21:27:14	Lightcurve	XSP	Yes	12 - 25	21:26:57		B8.5	Plot