compilation test...

Randgen - compiles fine of course (I never wrote it...)
atom - one array too big, sorted
cross - one array to small, sorted
electron - statement number error, sorted
strike - fine
proton1 - fine
hit - fine
back - fine
selectron - same statement error as electron, sorted
recoil - fine
proton - fine
Jupiter - fine (aledgedly...)

Just a couple of quick runs to test it
10keV, pitch angle zero (field aligned), 1000 electrons

Loads of questions of course - how much computational time will be taken by the larger atmosphere? Is the atmosphere in the right way up for this program? Does it actually work? All the usual ones...

well, at least I know they can run for ages... lets see if they can finish...

Meanwhile, back at the office, the new keter submission system is alledgedly up and working. The maximum runtime for the fast server is 62 days, the max for the medium one is 124 and the slow servers are unlimited. Great, except for one minor quibble. The maximum runtime it is possible to specifiy on the runscript is 999hours 59mins 59 seconds, or just over 41 days... Dontcha love basic maths... of course, it may be that the numbers can be varied... that had better be the case, at least. Lets see if the sensitivities will go back up (all seven remaining ones...)

Saturn2 - BSR/GS/SD 0.5 12eV now off on new V890 (or queued at least)
Saturn100000 - BSR1.0 100KeV now off on new V890 (or queued at least)
Saturn1 - GS10m 12eV now off on new V880
Saturn3 - BSR0.75 now off on new V880
Saturn40 - SD+C 12eV now off on new V880
Saturn50 - SD-1 12eV now off on new V880
Saturn12000 - SD+2 12eV now off on new V880

All seem to be ambling along (those that are set off that is...). We shall see if they work...

Jupiter run finished. Atmosphere is upside down. Sigh.

Sorted, attempt 2

That worked fine. Now need to do two things, the first is run an energy of known height, then known energy influx.

What else needs to be done?

Validation of terrestrial electrons - need to get another model and go through this again
Validation of terrestrial protons - as above
Photon validation - got 'model', so ready
Ovation stuff - once validated, the electron ionisation results for this can be used
Hbeta runs - when validated and when data arrives, this can be done
Photon runs - can be done during validation
Makenzie stuff - when data arrives etc - connects on from this current stuff
MICdev stuff - improvements should I have time

So, jobs:

Get proton model
Get electron model
Validate jovian electrons (being done)
complete sensitivities (being done)
Validate protons
Validate electrons
Validate photons
Ovation ionisation rates
Ovation CSDA model
Ovation/TIROS comparisons
Extend Grodent profile
Extend Grodent atmosphere
Fit to Makenzie data
Experiment with proton Hbeta doppler profile parameters
Fit to HBeta data
Run photon scattering models
Write up!

There. Easy...

Just been battling latex again, identifying where the missing style files are. Between starlink and apl, I might be able to muster all the required files... we shall see...

More work

Brief overview with the 'new era of Jovian auroral understanding' ie Steve's ideas on Makenzie's profiles. Yep, there are new ones, lots of them, with interesting things to look at.

One run finished (the last of the set that were running, meaning all I have to do is wait until the new regime is in place and set off the seven old ones again). Saturn5000 was the 12eV SD+1 run. It has been analysed.

Of course, first there is CTIP...

I have just had a look at putting the small increments thing in and it seems ok. Like everything else...

Sigh, "bus errror", should'a known it...

hmmm, will try a few runs on other computers using proton1...

Fails on rimmer

can't compile on C3

Going on keter... on the slow processors...

Trying out 31eV runs whilst waiting. It doesn't dip into the small increments level too deeply at this point, so may or may not avoid bus errors. On the other hand, ramping up the number of electrons fired does invite more errors to show their hand...

...bus error at 100k dammit!

Hmmm, difficult one. The lower energy stuff could probably quite happilly live without the small increments stuff, but the high energy stuff really needs it, otherwise there's the risk of crossing into an unrealistic pressure level. I'll run through the other energies and see if any of them can complete...

...one minor comfort, doing the 46eV lot, is that I do get ionisation in all pressure levels, as hoped.

...bus error at 100k

66eV
...100k again

96eV
...1M this time. Dammit... so close...

140eV
100k

206eV
100k

300eV
1M

440eV
1M

650eV
1M+ (hurray!)

950eV
1M

Don't yet have time to try out:
1380, 2030, 2980, 4400, 6400, 9400, 14000, 20800, 30500

I have actually remembered that since I have to divide all answers by a thousand to account for path length, 100k is more than enough anyway... and the answers (suggesting final peak rates from just shy of 1000 to just shy of 10,000 pcm3) is what is expected.

Must/may also do runs with pitch angle distributions, plus magnetic effects... after all...

...more and more and more...

Marking, 'bout halfway through

One run ended and was analysed. Saturn500 doing the 12eV SD-2 run. This leaves one run going on Keter, and six ready to make their reappearance once the queueing system has gone through...

Quick note

One run finished

Saturn100 finished the 12eV SD-C run. It was analysed etc.

...more and more and more...

Another run ended

Saturn1000 was the 12eV GS1m run. It has been analysed.

Demonstrating also happened, 2 hours of waves optics and accoustics in the maths problem class. That is now over and done with eternally. No more problem classes!!!!!!!!!

Anasuya sent another problem paper through alan, proving some things never end. Not alan...

Mill Hill

Another clear night with observations of Saturn, a double star and some cluster or other.

One run finished overnight and was analysed. Saturn12 was the 12eV 0.9 BSR run, which finished. An email from IS states that further restrictions are now in effect around Keter, so any of these runs that fail have simply failed for good.

Runs

News of more marking from Anasuya...

Two runs finished overnight and have been analysed. All runs are either going or done, so no recoding and resetting off anymore.

SaturnX was the 12eV GS100m run. This was analysed, completing the GS100m set.

Saturn50000 was the 12eV BSR0.25 run. This was also analysed, changing 12eV's grade to a pass and completing the BSR0.25 set.

This leaves 12 runs filling fourteen slots (as the middle run of the three sets is the control run, which is the same for all three).

Have looked at thesis. Looks the same as always

Ok, back onto things for the paper (remember that). Grodent gave me examples of his stuff for maxwellian energy distributions of characteristic energy: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 20, 30, 40, 50, 100, 200, 500 keV, equivalent to mean energies of: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 30, 40, 60, 80, 100, 200, 400, 1000 keV. For it to work best, I'll keep the mean at 40keV at the top, 2 at the bottom and 10 and 20 in the middle - ie use the 1, 5, 10 and 20 keV maxwellian results to run this.

These need to be normalised to 50 erg cm-1 s-1 (although I then need to pull slowly away from cgi units...). For each of them, I need to generate an electron distribution, with appropriate normalisation. I then need to extract the atmosphere from each of the Grodent datafiles and then run the generated electron spectrum into the atmosphere using RIDE.

Have sorted out some emails that needed deleting. What's that about avoidance?

Electron numbers now calculated.

Last runs set off

For the sensitivities thing. Excluding all the required reruns that'll follow in April, of course. Decided to wait no longer and have everything going continuously until they relent and finish.

Speaking of relentless. Marking time. Had a late script off Howarth and still have stuff from anasuya to do.

Howarth done. All astro/medical Anasuya scripts done. Just leaves the physicists behind. As ever.

Three runs - and marking

Three runs have finished overnight (well, they didn't finish in an overnight burst, they just happened to finish, after a long time, between me leaving last night and arriving today... but you know what I mean.. don't you?)

Saturn12 is the 12eV BSR1.0 run, finished with a day to spare... It was recoded, analysed and reset off as BSR0.9. Analysis gave no grade changes, but it did finally finish off the BSR1.0 set of runs, the first of the BSRs to finish.

Saturn50 is the 50eV GS10m run. This was analysed and then recoded as SD-1 (since the last 50eV GS run is already being done) and set off, meaning all six slots that are destined to attack the SD 12eV runs are in the SD block, ready to roll once they've done their stuff on 40, 50 and 1000 eV. No grade changes.

Saturn50000 was the 12eV BSR0.1 run. This was analysed and recoded as BSR0.25. Analysis revealed no grade chages, but BSR0.1 became the second BSR set to finish.

A good day for 12eV!

...and some marking...

Marking, marking, marking.

Raman's stuff remains...

Just got some spam from an oscilloscope maker...!

A run finished. SaturnX doing the 12eV GS10k run. That has been analysed, recoded and reset off as 12eV GS100m. No grade changes yet, but GS10km is now utterly complete. And it is another 12eV run down.

Marking done! Unless Raman has more hidden away... Anasuya's next...