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UVES trending system: HISTORY report
Last update: 2012-05-08T15:03:16 (UT)
same group: 346B_CD1 437B_CD2 580U_CD3 860U_CD4 580L_CD3 860L_CD4   Thermal_BLUE REDU REDL
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*Date on this monitor changes at 21:00 UT
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method value unit method value
1 QC1DB none   NONE none   153 mean_dx this | last_yr | all DX vs. temperature T4 for CD#3, all RED Upper CCD 580nm 1x1 data. The coefficiencts are displayed in red.
2 QC1DB none   NONE none   153 mean_dy this | last_yr | all DY vs. T4 for CD#3
3 QC1DB none   NONE none   160 mean_dx this | last_yr | all DX vs. T4 for CD#4, all RED Upper CCD 860nm 1x1 data
4 QC1DB none   NONE none   160 mean_dy this | last_yr | all DY vs. T4 for CD#4
*Data sources: QC1DB: QC1 database; LOCAL: local text file
Plot 1
data source:uves_fmtchk
(QC1 database)
dataset:mean_dx
average:none
thresholds:none
N_data plotted:153
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Plot 2
data source:uves_fmtchk
(QC1 database)
dataset:mean_dy
average:none
thresholds:none
N_data plotted:153
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Plot 3
data source:uves_fmtchk
(QC1 database)
dataset:mean_dx
average:none
thresholds:none
N_data plotted:160
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Plot 4
data source:uves_fmtchk
(QC1 database)
dataset:mean_dy
average:none
thresholds:none
N_data plotted:160
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This plot

This is the trending report for the UVES thermal compensations. It is based on daily FMTCHK calibrations.

Each camera (BLUE and RED) of UVES has a thermal compensation system (this was installed in December 2001). These plots present the residuals of the fitted lines of the FMTCHK calibrations with respect to the physical model as a function of temperature. Ideally if the thermal compensation was working perfectly the gradients would all be zero. However because the system is delicate to adjust there might be residual gradients which are calculated and monitored here.

As a rule of thumb the gradients should be smaller than 0.3 px/K. If the correlation plots show wild variations or a bifurcal distribution, this most likely reflects a readjustment, or a non-thermal shift (e.g. by an earthquake), during the plotted date range.

Find more information about UVES Efficiency monitoring here.  


General information

Click on any of the plots to see a close-up version. The latest date is indicated on top of the plot, data points belonging to that date are specially marked.

If configured,

  • statistical averages are indicated by a solid line, and thresholds by broken lines
  • outliers are marked by a red asterisk. They are defined as data points outside the threshold lines
  • "aliens" (= data points outside the plot Y limits) are marked by a red arrow ( or )
  • you can download the data for each parameter set if the 'Data downloads' link shows up