Instrumentation Milestone

The Barcelona Raman Lidar installation in the ORM

February 10, 2021

Gamma-ray Group

This week Manel Martínez and a team of engineers formed by Otger Ballester, Rafa Garcia, Juan Boix, Pau Llanes are at the ORM installing and verifying the Barcelona Raman LIDAR and doing repair and maintenance work on the azimuth system of the LST1.

This week Manel Martínez and a team of engineers formed by Otger Ballester, Rafa Garcia, Juan Boix, Pau Llanes are at the ORM installing and verifying the Barcelona Raman LIDAR and doing repair and maintenance work on the azimuth system of the LST1.

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Testing

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