CALLISTO & e-CALLISTO status report #16

To:
Arnold O. Benz	ETHZ, Switzerland	benz@astro.phys.ethz.ch 	
Tim Bastian
R. Bradley	NRAO, USA
	tbastian@nrao.edu
rbradley@nrao.edu 	
Frédéric Clette	ROB, Belgium	frederic.clette@oma.be 	
P. K. Manoharan
D. Nandagopal
R. Venkatasubramani
A. J. Selvanayagam	NCRA Ooty, India	mano@wm.ncra.tifr.res.in
dng@mailhost.tifr.res.in 
rvs@mailhost.tifr.res.in
selvan@mailhost.tifr.res.in 	
R. Ramesh
V. C. Kathiravan	IIA Bangalore, India	ramesh@iiap.res.in
kathir@iiap.res.in 	
Alexander Altyntsev
Sergey Lesovoi
Andrey Maslov 	SSRT Badary/Irkutsk
Russian Federation	altyntsev@iszf.irk.ru 
lesovoi@iszf.irk.ru
mac88@yandex.ru 	
Jorge Paez 
Marco Barantes	CINESPA, Costa Rica	jpaezp@cariari.ucr.ac.cr
mnbarrantes@gmail.com 	
Alejandro Lara 	UNAM, Mexico	alara@geofisica.unam.mx 	
Kyungsuk Cho	Daejeon, Rep. of Korea	kscho@kasi.re.kr 	

Cc:
Hansueli Meyer	ETHZ	meyerh@astro.phys.ethz.ch 	
Peter Messmer	TXCORP, USA	messmer@txcorp.com 	
N. Gopalswamy	NASA, USA	gopals@fugee.gsfc.nasa.gov 	
H. Haubold	UN Office, Vienna	hans.haubold@unvienna.org 	

From:
Christian Monstein	ETHZ	monstein@astro.phys.ethz.ch 	

Since February 2006, when the last report was sent out most Callisto spectrometers operate quite stable. No new instrument went into operation but close cooperation with South Korea takes place.

If you are not interested to get these reports or if you think that somebody else should have this document, don’t hesitate to email one of us.
Recently we set into operation our new Callisto data archive connected to a website. The software project is called DiRaC (something like Distributed Radiospectrometer Control) and it gives data access to all running Callisto spectrometer. To use it, you may first select a day between November 2006 when data collection started and present date. Then you may select one of the locations (Bleien/Switzerland, Ooty/India (2 linear polarizations), Gauribidanur/India, Irkutsk/Russian Federation, Santa Cruz/Costa Rica or Zurich/Switzerland). Then you need to select one of the source instruments (at Bleien observatory we have 3 different sources, namely PHOENIX2, PHOENIX3 and CALLISTO). And then you need to select a polarization. If there are data available for the above selected conditions, the corresponding day-field will be highlighted. Then click onto one of the highlighted days and press the button “Get Images”. After a few seconds, when the previews are prepared they should appear one after the other. If you then click onto one of these previews it should be displayed enlarged onto your screen. On the right side there is an additional selection button to zoom into the spectrum which takes again a few seconds to prepare. On the bottom of the screen you may download Callisto spectra either in PNG- or JPG- or the original FITS-format. There are a couple of days with up to 4 instruments observing the same flare, like on June 2nd, 3rd or 4th at different times. The software status of this website is still preliminary but nevertheless you may use it. Additional information in the files “help” and “about” is still missing but, will be filled soon; sorry about that. The new website can be found here: http://www.astro.phys.ethz.ch:8080/frontend/
If you have ideas for improvements, don’t hesitate to contact one of us.

New spectral overviews (7 x Switzerland and 1 x Latvia) since the last report was sent out (base band spectra) are available here: 
 
http://www.astro.phys.ethz.ch/instrument/callisto/RFSPEC2/IRSOL/spectrum91.html
http://www.astro.phys.ethz.ch/instrument/callisto/RFSPEC2/Specola/spectrum92.html
http://www.astro.phys.ethz.ch/instrument/callisto/RFSPEC2/Sonogno/spectrum93.html
http://www.astro.phys.ethz.ch/instrument/callisto/RFSPEC2/Brione/spectrum94.html
http://www.astro.phys.ethz.ch/instrument/callisto/RFSPEC2/Altanca/spectrum95.html
http://www.astro.phys.ethz.ch/instrument/callisto/RFSPEC2/GotthardTunnel/spectrum96.html
http://www.astro.phys.ethz.ch/instrument/callisto/RFSPEC2/Bleien07/spectrum97.html
http://www.astro.phys.ethz.ch/instrument/callisto/RFSPEC2/Latvia/spectrum92.html

Overview of actual installed frequency files at different host sites can be found here: 
http://www.astro.phys.ethz.ch/instrument/callisto/IHYconfig/config.htm

Status host sites:
Spectrometer Ooty/India (Manoharan) operational
Spectrometer Gauribidanur/India (Ramesh) operational
Spectrometer Badary/Irkustk/Russia (Lesovoi) operational at a new antenna position
Spectrometer CINESPA/Costa Rica (Jorge Paez) data sporadic available
Spectrometer South Korea (Cho) in advanced planning phase
Spectrometer Mexico (Alejandro Lara) instrument delivered
Spectrometer Switzerland (Benz) 2…3 operational
Spectrometer NRAO (Bastian) no news, status unknown
Spectrometer for mobile IHY-exhibition Europe (Hartmann) operational