Contribution
The Piritakua Observatory's data acquisition system.
Speakers
- Dr. Antonio GALVÁN
Primary authors
- Dr. Antonio GALVÁN (Instituto de Física, UNAM)
Co-authors
- Cindy CASTELLÓN (Instituto de Física - UNAM)
- Dr. Hermes LEÓN VARGAS (Instituto de Física, UNAM)
- Dr. Ernesto BELMONT (Instituto de Física de la UNAM)
- Dr. Andres Sandoval SANDOVAL (Instituto de Fisica, UNAM)
- Dr. Adiv GONZALEZ (Instituto Tecnológico de Oaxaca)
Content
It is generally accepted that weather variables influence the detection of Cosmic Ray secondaries at ground level. For instance, muon detectors are susceptible to fluctuations in atmospheric conditions, including pressure and temperature. In this poster, we introduce the Data Acquisition System of the Piritakua Observatory, which will be installed at the Instituto de Física of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México in Mexico City. Currently, this work entails the details of three devices: a Davis Vantage Pro 2 weather station that measures temperature, pressure and humidity, a couple of Boltek instruments, including the LD-250 and LD-350 lightning detectors to track electric fields changes and a SENSYS three-axis magnetometer to characterize variations in the local magnetic field. These three systems are responsible for monitoring changes in atmospheric properties. We present the current status of detector commissioning.
Summary
It is generally accepted that weather variables influence the detection of Cosmic Ray secondaries at ground level. For instance, muon detectors are susceptible to fluctuations in atmospheric conditions, including pressure and temperature. In this poster, we introduce the Data Acquisition System of the Piritakua Observatory, which will be installed at the Instituto de Física of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México in Mexico City. Currently, this work entails the details of three devices: a Davis Vantage Pro 2 weather station that measures temperature, pressure and humidity, a couple of Boltek instruments, including the LD-250 and LD-350 lightning detectors to track electric fields changes and a SENSYS three-axis magnetometer to characterize variations in the local magnetic field. These three systems are responsible for monitoring changes in atmospheric properties. We present the current status of detector commissioning.