For SHARP Collaborators:

1. Contact Info

• SHARP experts' contact info.

2. Schedules

• Deployment plan for Fall 2013 but note that in addition to the observers listed, Hiroko Shinnaga will observe on the 25th (full night) and 26th (half-night)
• Itineraries Fall 2013

3. Documentation for SHARP Observers

• This is now found at the bottom of the public SHARP Instrument page: click here

4. Additional Documentation

• SHARP cheatsheet (now replaced by item 3 above)
  
  
• Instructions for Installing or Removing SHARP Box 4
• Instructions for testing the communications between antenna computer and sharcii computer
• Instructions for "Fake Observing"
  
  
• Restarting the HWP control program on the EDAS
• troubleshooting the EDAS date problem
• Replacing the EDAS BNC Cables
• HWP Control box: components, connections, notes--WORD--updated 07/31/07 (MK)
• HWP Control box: components, connections, notes--PDF--updated 07/31/07 (MK)
  
  
• SHARP IRC scripts (WORD)
• SHARP IRC scripts (PDF)
  
  
• SHARP set-up and breakdown
• SHARP alignment (PDF)
• SHARP alignment spreadsheet (xls)
• Measuring the HWP zero-angle and polarization efficiency
• SHARP installation video
  
  
• SHARP Inventory - NOTES for DARREN (April 2010)
• SHARP Instrument Logs

5. Data Analysis

• LINK to Analysis logbook

• LINK to chop-nod analysis telecon summaries

• LINK to Run by Run Section

• Data Reduction Status speadsheet (Excel)

• Useful Software
  • Latest version of all sharp software: sharp.tar.gz (2012-Dec-07)
    • sharpinteg flowchart
  • Latest version of sharp_combine: Version 5.10 updated 2009-Apr-9.
    • Documents on χ² in sharp_combine: John (2009-Apr-9)
    • Document on background subtraction
    • Another possibility for background subtraction
    • sharp_combine version 4 flowchart (GN, June 08)
    • sharp_combine version 5 flowchart (GN, June 08)
  • Previous versions of sharp_combine:
    • Version 5.10 updated 2009-Apr-9.
    • Version 4.10 updated 2007-Jun-5.
    • Version 3.80 updated 2007-Mar-23.
    • Version 3.62 updated 2007-Mar-8.
    • Version 3.30 updated 2006-Aug-14.
    • Version 3.00 updated 2006-May-22.
    • Version 2.40 updated 2006-May-17.
    • Version 2.20 updated 2006-May-1.
  • Auxiliary code for sharp_combine
    • chauvenet.c
    
    
  • Latest version of sharpinteg: Version 2.4 Updated 2008-Feb-07.
  • Previous versions of sharpinteg:
    • Version 2.3 Updated 2007-Apr-30
    • Version 2.2 Updated 2007-Mar-8
    • Version 2.1 Updated 2007-Feb-2
    
    
  • More complete smoothing discussion (MH & JEV 2006-Aug-27).
  • Smoothing and Map-making discussion (JEV 2006-Jul-25).

  • fitgauss 3.0 tar file. Now with 'e' option for fitting elliptical gaussian.

  • Gaussian fitting for pointing: fitgausspol.c. Requires numerical recipes and cfitsio libraries.

  • Notes detailing SharpInteg usage and details of code formalism
  • quicklook.c version 1d (requires cfitsio library to compile) -- THIS IS OLD; see analysis logbook instead.
  • quicktile.c v1.1
  • tile csh script (used to run quicktile)
  • Tar file with all .c and .h files needed to compile sharpinteg as well as the Makefile used to do so (requires cfitsio library to compile)

• Tests of Hertz-mode data analysis
  • Tests of background subtraction in sharp_combine
  • Test of instrument polarization subtraction in sharp_combine.
  • Test of Sharpinteg with 10% polarized fake data
  • Correlation results with simulated data
  • Test of Sharpinteg with 100% polarized fake data

6. Details of Technical Plan

• Click here to see a list of detailed technical documents

7. Publications and Talks: details

• Material from our 2004 SPIE paper
• Giles' power-point file for the SPIE 2004 talk
• Copy of our 2006 SPIE paper
• Hua-bai's power-point file for the SPIE 2006 talk
• John's talk at the Seattle AAS - Jan. 2007: PDF, PPT
• Giles' talk at the Quebec meeting - July 2008: PPT
• Megan's thesis: PDF
• Giles' talk at the Taipei meeting on Star Formation - June 2011: PPT
• Andrew's thesis: PDF