{"id":5903,"date":"2012-11-19T18:40:27","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T22:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galadriel.astro.utoronto.ca\/ballast\/?p=5903"},"modified":"2013-05-27T10:36:42","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T14:36:42","slug":"cryostat-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/?p=5903","title":{"rendered":"Cryostat Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I haven&#8217;t posted for a couple days because I have been running around doing a bunch of cryostat tests. Well everything checked out and we are getting ready to mount the cryostat on the gondola, so I have a few minutes to post things.<\/p>\n<p>As a polarization\u00c2\u00a0experiment\u00c2\u00a0we have to do a lot of ground tests with known polarizations to measure the zeros of the system. We also spend a lot of time looking at a known unpolarized source to make sure we aren&#8217;t measuring\u00c2\u00a0artificially\u00c2\u00a0induced polarization. I took a few quick shots while we were setting up, but most of out time was spent staring at the data the way Giles is.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Apologies!<\/strong> Due to some plugin incompatilbilities, Tristan&#8217;s photos can no longer be viewed here. Please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tristanmatthews\/sets\/72157632049202103\/\" title=\"View on flickr\">click here to view on flickr.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Giles looking at Polarization Efficiency data\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8057\/8201183200_15d73319d9_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" \/> So I haven&#8217;t posted for a couple days because I have been running around doing a bunch of cryostat tests. Well everything checked out and we are getting ready to mount the cryostat on the gondola, so I have a few minutes to post things. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5903"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5903"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5913,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5903\/revisions\/5913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}