So, ARA has five stations down in the ice that are taking data. Weekly, a member of the collaboration checks on the detectors to make sure that they are healthy.

This means things like making sure they are triggering at approximately the right rates, are taking cal pulsers, that the box isn't too hot, etc.

Here are some resources to get you started. Usual ara username and password apply in all cases.

• On this page, you can scroll down to "Monitoring Shifts": http://ara.icecube.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/ARA_Operations
• This is a link to an example report with very nice commentary about what to expect as normal, etc: http://ara.physics.wisc.edu/docs/0016/001610/002/edited_notes_for_monitoring_report.pdf
• This is a link to another example report that is considered typical: http://ara.physics.wisc.edu/docs/0013/001317/001/Monitor-May-11_May-18.pdf
• And another: http://ara.physics.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/DocDB/ShowDocument?docid=1616

Also, the page where all of the plots live is here: http://aware.wipac.wisc.edu/

Thanks, and good luck monitoring! Ask someone whose done it before when in doubt.

Brian