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JCMT Newsletter No. 13 (Weather/Fault Statistics)

Weather and Fault Statistics for Semester 98B

The following tables present the weather loss and fault loss for semester 98B. A more detailed description of how these tables are created is also available here.


Month         Avail    Extend  Primary    %    Backup      %
               Hrs       Hrs     Loss           Loss

August 496.0 20.6 43.7 8.8 3.7 0.7 September 472.0 9.6 16.5 3.5 16.5 3.5 October 480.0 13.0 165.3 34.4 40.3 8.4 November 481.0 18.3 194.6 40.5 147.1 30.6 December 480.0 19.9 194.9 40.6 97.9 20.4 January 488.0 28.6 209.1 42.8 161.1 33.0 Total 2897.0 110.0 824.1 28.4 466.6 16.1

Table 1: JCMT weather statistics.

Month       Avail  Total     ANT      INS   COMP   SOFT   CAR   OTH

August 496.0 21.9 1.0 10.8 5.7 4.2 0.0 0.3 September 472.0 23.5 2.2 13.9 0.6 5.5 1.3 0.0 October 480.0 21.9 4.9 7.9 0.3 0.4 4.6 3.8 November 481.0 10.8 1.5 6.3 0.0 0.9 0.9 1.3 December 480.0 10.4 0.3 5.9 0.8 0.8 0.5 2.0 January 488.0 29.6 8.0 2.9 16.0 2.8 0.0 0.0 P(hrs) 2897.0 118.1 17.9 47.7 23.4 14.6 7.3 7.4 B(hrs) 10.9 0.5 1.7 1.7 2.9 3.8 0.5

Table 2: JCMT fault statistics. Wherever possible the faults are categorised into ANT = antenna; INS = instrument; COMP = computer hardware; SOFT = software; CAR = carousel; with the remainder going to OTH = other. The figures in the table may not appear to add up correctly due to rounding in the original program. P defines the time lost from Primary projects. The category B(hrs) is the time lost to Backup projects.


Modification Author: Graeme Watt (gdw)

Contact: Antonio Chrysostomou. Updated: Tue Aug 17 17:32:05 HST 2004

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