MIRC current status---updated on 2011May26th

1. Data saving. The data saving is fine when we use a prism mode, it sometimes lose frames, but it won't crash. However when we use prism mode, it crashes randomly. We figured out the reason is that the socket that RTscheduel uses to send data frames to spooler sometimes is overwhelmed, it isn't able to send all the data frames, and also it won't send "END" command to let spooler know the file should be closed. Ettore mentioned that there is a parameter called POOLSIZE in RTschedule.h we should play with, I haven't had time to try that out. Fabien has also added real time signature on header to synchronize MIRC and CHAMP. We took some data, but haven't analyzed.

2. Fiber problem. Beam 5 is very likely to have some problem. the intensity is about half of that of the rest beams. And the fringes of beam45 and beam56 are curved, meaning there is some dispersion problem. We should probably take it off and clean it during the July run.

Media:beam56_grism_fringe_stretched

3. The fiberexplorer gui seems to be working fine now, except that when you do 6 beam fiberexplorer, it doesn't show up all the six images at the beginning, and they will all be shown when it is finished. This is a small problem to be fixed.

4. The gdt control gui seems to be able to update the weights and opds properly, and the bootstrapping method for 6T works on simulated data. But we haven't tested on real observation yet.

5. on Pythonconfigure gui, several numbers should be changed. I changed he peaks of the power spectrum for each baseline, but it seems they are all one column off. All the number should be added by 1. The bkg noise row should be set to some number like 50.