Quick note

One run finished

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

Run, marking, seminar

That's the plan.

The run that finished overnight was Saturn100, a 50eV SD-C run. It was analysed, recoded and set off as SD-C for 12eV. The analysis showed that it was the final 50eV run, meaning all energies except 12, 40 and 100,000 are done, with the remaining 100k and 40eV runs underway. Half of all the remaining to be completed and analysed 18 runs are SD runs.

Ok seminar. Three bits. Modelling, Photon, Auroral morphology - not in that order.

Begin with the Earth, starting at Bolearis, then shift outwards, until the Earth is just another planet. Show that visible light is just one of the emissions and the list of emissions on all eight planets (including the null of Mercury). Talk about ENAs at Mercury and why it hasn't an aurora. Talk about the dynamo at Venus, the swept aurora and how this is being applied to Mars. Move onto the Giant Planets, with Jupiter's internal dynamo, Saturn's state of affairs, and mention the other two. Then talk about how particle interactions change the current only analogy sometimes used. Have the photon as an anology. Then use it to introduce RIDE and shine up a result or two. Then finish and run off to Mill Hill to avoid questions...

Ok, most the way through it now. Finished off tomorrow.

Quick note

One run and a bit of marking done so far today.

Saturn100 finished the 50eV SD-2 run, and was recoded and set off as the 50eV SD-C run, the only unfilled slot of that energy. Analysis revealed no grade changes.

Another run dun

The penultimate one of these fast runs.

Saturn1000 finished the 100keV GS100m. It was analysed, recoded as GS10km and set off for one final time. No grade changes etc.

Have got all the dissociation and ionisation potentials from NIST. Their electron impact ionisation cross-sections match with mine too. Still no word on scattering though! This means atom.f is finally finished.

Hurray! Found one! By typing in "total cross-section for CO" into google, I of course got the... well... CO2 one, but hey, it's still one of the three I need...

Now got CO as well... just need nitric oxide

Have extrapolated and interpolated my way through CO and CO2

and now have mined, interpolated and extrapolated NO as well. That's the easy bit done, now to stick them all into cross whilst managing not to delete any of the existing cross-sectionts that I intend to keep...

Scattering cross-sections now transferred laboriously to cross.f

One run to finish off with Saturn100 completed the final 100eV run (SD-2). It has since been set off as 50eV SD-2. Analysis was undertaken confirming 100eV is 100% done. No other grade changes.

Quick note

No entry yesterday as most the day was spent going down a blind alley - a paper promising dissociation cross-sections for the three species that turned out not to quite be what I wanted - it was dissociation plus attachement at once. I could do a bit more work to extract something useful from there, and of course the process will be useful for other things eventually, however, not for the time being... sigh...

Today's delight was a completed run. The penultimate 100eV run from the Saturn100 slot. This was analysed, recoded and set off again. Analysis yielded no grade changes, though it did mark the point at which 80% of all the runs was completed. This was the SD-C run. The new run is SD-2 and will mark the completion (in about six days) of the 100eV runs.

Another run dun

100eV finished the SD-1 run. This was analysed and the SD-C run set off.

Thesis work - the morphologies of aurorae on all (EIGHT) planets. Mercury's easy. Nothing seen, nothing expected... unless you count particle emission, ENAs, rather than photon emission... damnit. Time to alter the definition...