Research Journal for Kayla

August 5:

• PRESENTATIONS

August 4:

• ran another 50 events from run 328867

• finalized final presentation, made some final edits

• got some clarification on dropped packets in camera images - the problem is in the data acquisition process

August 3:

• met with Massimo to discuss presentation edits

• edited and redrafted presentation

• reviewed some silicon photomultipliers readings in preparation for Wednesday

July 31:

• downloaded and looked through all 457 camera images from run 328555

• ran the list of events from run 328867 with more than 5 splits - most of these events have a much lower baseline pixel brightness than events from run 328555
  • events 100001, 100018, and 100044 stand out - they have a much higher baseline pixel brightness than the rest of the events from run 328867, as well as a bright patch in two lower left modules

• worked on draft of final status update/presentation

July 30:

• attended Kaitlyn Kratter summer colloquium

• ran every tenth event in run 328555 - total of 457 camera images to look through
  • haven't encountered any new trends or phenomena than those in the first 100

• resolved some issues with jupyter - switched from python 2 to python 3

July 29:

• started looking at ways to run multiple events at once in the SCT_camera_plot script

• started drafting final presentation/status update

• read article for journal club

July 28:

• attended Chris Tenzer summer colloquium

• ran another 50 events through the camera image script, looked through all camera images
  • pretty much all images follow the same trends as the first 50

• event 262378 has a pretty uniform background, with one very bright pixel ~360 photoelectrons

July 27:

• generated and looked through the first 50 camera images from Qi's list of events in run 328555

• vast majority of these events seem to be noise

• a couple of interesting things:
  • in two of the events, half of every module is dead - unsure what's going on there
  • one of the events is not noise - event 261831

July 24:

• got sct_camera_plot.py running

• generated 12 camera images from the events Milutin looked at last week
  • most camera images look like noise events - will clarify in Monday meeting with Massimo

July 22:

• attended some VERITAS Collaboration meeting sessions

• started working with analysis scripts from Brent's manual

July 21:

• attended some VERITAS Collaboration meeting sessions

• attended Jodi Christiansen summer colloquium on the dusty universe

• got Brent's test code snippet running

July 20:

• connected cobalt to Jupyter - was able to run some code on Jupyter

• met with Massimo - resolved several problems with port numbers

• confirmed that Brent's environment is functioning

• now working on running Brent's code snippet from the installation manual

July 15-16:

• completed SVN checkout - somehow I ended up with the wrong username in a config file, once I corrected that, I was able to download the camera analysis software from CTA SVN

• attended camera call

• attended Fritz Paerels summer colloquium

July 14:

• attended some VERITAS Collaboration sessions

• attended Massimo's summer colloquium

• tried copying Colin's pSCT analysis software - having issues with creating a shortcut to log into cobalt

July 13:

• In contact with Cecile Barbier to figure out SVN access issues
  • Unable to connect to repository - unclear why

• Getting a “permission denied” message in jupyter for some code that was working fine last week

• Continuing work with time voltage plots
  • Restructuring my file system with csvs
  • Eliminates some awkward code

July 9:

• attended Naoko Kurahashi Neilson summer colloquium

• talked with Massimo about SVN access issues - it seems that my SVN public key does not match the one that appears in my confirmation email
  • I need to contact Cécile Barbier for help with this

• journal club on shock

July 8:

• anti-racism reading group

• continued watching consortium meeting talks

• still having issue with SVN checkout

July 7:

• attended Elisabetta Bissaldi summer colloquium

• went to pSCT analysis meeting

• used pSCT software installation manual to enable python 3

• currently having issues with SVN checkout - unable to connect to repository

July 6:

• watched Brent's pSCT analysis CTA consortium meeting talk

• got SVN access
  • resolved some issues installing Anaconda on the cobalt server

• working on learning pandas
  • figuring out how to split a dataframe by column value

July 2:

• attended Daniel Kabat summer colloquium

• met with Massimo to work on getting SVN access through CTA and plotting csvs

• ran journal club

July 1:

• anti-racism journal club

• extracted the csv files from Massimo's file of csvs and pngs

• began watching CTAO talks

June 30:

• created person profile for Milutin on the VERITAS website

• attended John Parsons summer colloquium

• CTA account was confirmed, now waiting for SVN access (requested to change SVN key)

• set up MobaXterm a second time, seems to be working now

June 29:

• began pSCT Data Analysis Installation Manual
  • need SVN access from CTA - I created a CTA account, waiting for account approval

• continued background readings

June 25:

• attended Marcos Santander Summer Colloquium

• completed Massimo's tutorial - found waveform minimum and time of minimum

• talked with Massimo to discuss next steps: select all traces for 001LED, plot all traces, then build a histogram of of minimum amplitude and time of minimum amplitude

June 24:

• gave silicon photomultipliers presentation

• attended APS webinar

• continued background python readings

June 23:

• went to Zsuzsa Marka Summer Colloquium

• continued readings from Jupyter tutorial

• finalized silicon photomultipliers slides

June 22:

• explored Jupyter Notebook, began Scipy and Numpy tutorials

• continued readings on silicon photomultipliers
  

June 18:

• went through tutorial in MobaXterm with Massimo - encountered an issue with the CygUtils plugin - Moba says I need it and don't have it (I've downloaded it repeatedly, I know it's in the right folder, I'm not quite sure what's going on)

• started getting familiar with file navigation in Moba

June 16-17:

• reviewed silicon photomultipliers slides with Massimo - discussed presentation outline, dark events, avalanche photodiodes, photon detection efficiency, breakdown voltage, overvoltage

• went to Reshmi's Summer Colloquium talk

• continued readings

June 15:

• Finished silicon photomultipliers slides

• Continued thesis readings - Development of a NUV Camera for Cherenkov Telescope Applications (Massimo’s thesis)

• Began sorting through readings and resources for Anti-racism Reading Group

June 10:

• 9:00: read Introduction to silicon photomultipliers Structure and Operation

• 1:00-2:30: talked with Massimo about p/n junctions, photoelectric effect, GM-APGs

  • Started prep for silicon photomultipliers presentation

• Continued thesis readings

June 9:

• 9:00-10:00: continued Unix tutorial, started exploring GNU nano

• Completed MobaXterm demo

• 10:00-10:30: met with Mukherjee to discuss silicon photomultipliers
  

• 11:00-1:00, 1:45-3:00: read Miles Winter thesis

June 8

• Continued Unix tutorial

• Continued reading theses

• Downloaded MobaXterm (free server - tabbed ssh terminal for Windows), explored the Demo

June 1-3:

• Read/reviewed Peter Cogan thesis: Nanosecond Sampling of Atmospheric Cherenkov Radiation Applied to TeV Gamma-ray Observations of Blazars with VERITAS

• Began reading Miles Winter thesis: Characterizing the Charge Spectrum of the CTA pSCT

• Completed Vim tutorial (https://www.openvim.com/)

• Began working on Unix tutorial

-- Kayla Docher - 2020-06-08

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