For the final week of the internship, Seosamh and I (Chris) began by fixing the SuperSIDs after power outages. The systems had to be restarted, but thankfully it appears that there is no permanent damage and both receivers… Read More

Seosamh and I (Chris) returned to Dunsink Observatory for this week in order to improve the configuration of the SuperSID receiver that is currently running there. We began the week by checking the hardware, as we have recently… Read More

This week Chris and I (Seosamh) spent most of the week preparing for INAM. Also, as we approach the final weeks of this internship, we have been spending time finishing up our changes to the SuperSID project. Chris… Read More

This week Chris was away so I (Seosamh) was still working on improving the SuperSID by finding alternative and less noisy VLF transmitters and optimising the code. Over the last week I’ve been cycling through the many different… Read More

Seosamh and I (Chris) have been continuing our improvements to the SuperSID system, focusing primarily on the collection and processing of data. Much of the work we are doing requires a lot of testing and comparisons and will… Read More

Continuing our work from Stream Birr, Seosamh and I (Chris) have been looking into possible ways to improve the data from our SuperSID receivers. Our first change will be to the frequencies that are being monitored by the… Read More

Chris and I started this week off in the education centre in Birr castle. After having set up the Linux PC in Stream Birr, it was time to start installing it in the education centre, replacing the old… Read More

Seosamh and I are back working in Birr this week. We’ve brought a PC back from Dunsink and have been preparing it for use in the Rosse Observatory to run the SuperSID receiver stationed there.  This computer will… Read More

This week Chris and I (Seosamh) had the pleasure of spending the week in Dunsink Observatory to work closer with the SuperSID receiver in Dunsink and improve and optimise the presentation and consistency of the data being published… Read More

Seosamh and I (Chris) are working as DIAS summer interns for this year. We’re Theoretical Physics undergraduate students studying in Trinity and UCD. This is the first of a series of posts from us during our internship, where… Read More