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<p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Here are some resources to get you started. Usual ara username and password apply in all cases.</p> <ul> <li>On this page, you can scroll down to "Monitoring Shifts": <a href="http://ara.icecube.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/ARA_Operations">http://ara.icecube.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/ARA_Operations</a></li> <li>This is a link to an example report with very nice commentary about what to expect as normal, etc: <a href="http://ara.physics.wisc.edu/docs/0016/001610/002/edited_notes_for_monitoring_report.pdf">http://ara.physics.wisc.edu/docs/0016/001610/002/edited_notes_for_monitoring_report.pdf</a></li> <li>This is a link to another example report that is considered typical: <a href="http://ara.physics.wisc.edu/docs/0013/001317/001/Monitor-May-11_May-18.pdf">http://ara.physics.wisc.edu/docs/0013/001317/001/Monitor-May-11_May-18.pdf</a></li> <li>And another: <a href="http://ara.physics.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/DocDB/ShowDocument?docid=1616">http://ara.physics.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/DocDB/ShowDocument?docid=1616</a></li> </ul> <p>Also, the page where all of the plots live is here: <a href="http://aware.wipac.wisc.edu/">http://aware.wipac.wisc.edu/</a></p> <p>Thanks, and good luck monitoring! Ask someone whose done it before when in doubt.</p> <p>Brian</p> Encoding: HTML ELCode plain Suppress Email notification

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