<span style='color:red'>Monitoring ACE Proton Flux *</span>

Monitoring ACE Proton Flux

Description

This directory contains a couple of perl scripts to monitor the ACE satellite proton fluxes for Chandra operations, plus the associated data files. The data are downloaded from NOAA ftp site. This is a part of TST related collections of scripts .

Location of Scripts and Their Names

Location: /data/mta4/proj/rac/ops/ACE/

GitHub Address: https://github.com/tisobe/TST_ACE

Script Name	Last Updated
get_kp.pl	Nov 04, 2015
fmon.pl	Oct 07, 2015

Please read /data/mta4/proj/rac/ops/README and /data/mta4/proj/rac/ops/ACE/README file for more details.

Jul 21, 2015	Initially logged
Jul 22, 2015	Added to Github
Oct 07, 2015	fmon data source modified

Data Needed

ftp://ftp.swpc.noaa.gov/pub/lists/ace/ace_epam_5m.txt
ftp://ftp.swpc.noaa.gov/pub/lists/wingkp/wingkp_list.txt
/data/mta4/proj/rac/ops/ephem/gephem.dat
/data/mta4/proj/rac/ops/ACE/fluace.dat (from the previous round)
/data/mta4/proj/rac/ops/ACE/ace.archive (from the previous round)

Environment Setting

None

Output Locations and File Names

/data/mta4/proj/rac/ops/ACE/
- kp.dat
- fluace.dat
- fluace.dat.good
- fluace.arc
- ace.archive
- falert.dat

Note: fluace.arc is no longer updated. (last entry 2012 7 31)

How to Run the Script(s)

go to: /data/mta4/proj/rac/ops/ACE/
run: get_kp.pl
run: fmon.pl

How to Run Test(s)

no test is available for this set of scripts

Expected result from the test

test results -- test results -- test results

Cron Job

CPU:	c3po-v
User:	mta

9,24,39,54 * * * * /data/mta4/proj/rac/ops/ACE/get_kp.pl
3,8,13,18,23,28,33,38,43,48,53,58 * * * * /data/mta4/proj/rac/ops/ACE/fmon.pl

Web Addreess

No web pages

Note

None

Future Plan/Update Schedule

None