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  2. SP-3552

Produce Real-Time (per minute) Bandpass Spectra for SKA-LOW station antennas using MCCS

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      Note that early AAVS3 and array releases will be unstable and unreliable. This functionality is the fastest and easiest way to check antenna performance while observing, meaning:

       

      • Troubleshooting can occur in situ. This will save time as operators identify (and potentially fix) issues while observing.
      • Operators can communicate with people performing maintenance quickly and effectively. 
      • Operators can communicate issues to commissioning scientists and operations scientists, meaning that issues can be narrowed down more swiftly.
      • Operators will be able to identify common issues with SKALA antennas. This will help the later work of automating antenna flagging to be more accurate, as those contributing (operators) will have a greater sense of what constitutes an issue.
      • Overall greater understanding of the system from operators.
      • Storing data for later analysis allows greater understanding of the system, including understanding the antenna responses over long periods of time, allowing characterisation of temperature changes, weather changes, etc., as this response is not observation/direction-dependent.

       

      Without this functionality, there will be an extra layer of investigation involved with every piece of commissioning and data processing that will slow things down unnecessarily.

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      Note that early AAVS3 and array releases will be unstable and unreliable. This functionality is the fastest and easiest way to check antenna performance while observing, meaning:   Troubleshooting can occur in situ. This will save time as operators identify (and potentially fix) issues while observing. Operators can communicate with people performing maintenance quickly and effectively.  Operators can communicate issues to commissioning scientists and operations scientists, meaning that issues can be narrowed down more swiftly. Operators will be able to identify common issues with SKALA antennas. This will help the later work of automating antenna flagging to be more accurate, as those contributing (operators) will have a greater sense of what constitutes an issue. Overall greater understanding of the system from operators. Storing data for later analysis allows greater understanding of the system, including understanding the antenna responses over long periods of time, allowing characterisation of temperature changes, weather changes, etc., as this response is not observation/direction-dependent.   Without this functionality, there will be an extra layer of investigation involved with every piece of commissioning and data processing that will slow things down unnecessarily.
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      • Raw power spectra data for every antenna in a station, within MCCS (in order to use on AAVS3 and future AA releases), for both polarisations
      • Be averaged over a timescale of one minute, refreshing once per minute (for consistency/comparison with current AAVS2 monitoring)
      • Calculate and display RMS values for that minute for each antenna and polarisation
      • These data should be stored for later troubleshooting and long-term monitoring evaluation.
      • Antenna number, location, and associated TPM are shown
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      Raw power spectra data for every antenna in a station, within MCCS (in order to use on AAVS3 and future AA releases), for both polarisations Be averaged over a timescale of one minute, refreshing once per minute (for consistency/comparison with current AAVS2 monitoring) Calculate and display RMS values for that minute for each antenna and polarisation These data should be stored for later troubleshooting and long-term monitoring evaluation. Antenna number, location, and associated TPM are shown
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      Create functionality to retrieve and display bandpass spectral (power/gain vs frequency) responses from X and Y dipoles of all the individual SKA-LOW antennas of a station with MCCS, starting with AAVS3. These data should:

      • Be averaged over a timescale of one minute, refreshing once per minute (for consistency/comparison with current AAVS2 monitoring)
      • Calculate and display RMS values for that minute for each antenna and polarisation

      These data should be stored for later troubleshooting and long-term monitoring evaluation.

      The functionality to do this in AAVS2 is shown here: http://aavs1-server.mwa128t.org/phase1/aavs2

      As a Minimum Viable Product, we need at least the same capabilities here from AAVS2. (screenshot below)

       

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