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Array parameters November 2009 (28/10-03/12)

SABOCA was cold an in use between 28th of October and 3rd of December.

Main parameter file: saboca-2009-11.rcp

Individual scans

Scan #Date Parameter fileArray plotIndividual channel maps
79146 2009-11-10T03:59 Uranus_79146_Saboca.rcp array_79146.pdf beams_79146.pdf
79266 2009-11-10T07:58 Mars_79266_Saboca.rcp array_79266.pdf beams_79266.pdf
85550 2009-12-03T09:08 Mars_85550_Saboca.rcp array_85550.pdf beams_85550.pdf
85558 2009-12-03T09:33 Mars_85558_Saboca.rcp array_85558.pdf beams_85558.pdf

Notes on individual channels

All 37 channels of SABOCA are working fine. Between March 2009 and March 2010, all backend signals are inverted, which has to be taken care of during data reduction:

# Handle inverted channels (all):
data.Data *= array(-1,'f')