SOHO SPWG Minutes
SPWG FINAL MINUTES
Friday 17 December 2004
1. Boundary conditions
- SOHO is right side up until the the next manoeuvre, scheduled for 21
December. The manoeuvre will include a momentum management, station
keeping, and 180 degree roll. Fuel estimate was 139 g prior to ESR-24,
but this is bound to change.
- The winter keyhole schedule is at:
http://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/soc/keyhole.dec04
- Scheduling windows for keyhole periods through 2005 are listed on the
SOHO calendar. For estimated keyhole dates through 2007 see
http://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/soc/keyholes.txt
- Long-term DSN outlook: Although substantial losses of normal VC0/1 are
expected during 2005/2006 keyholes, GOLF and VIRGO (likely also MDI)
will be continuous thanks to the recording patch. It may also be
possible to have nearly continuous LASCO (submode 5) and CELIAS data in
future keyholes.
- TRACE is in eclipse season, estimated to end around February 4. Eclipse
operations will be simple as usual, by default no new JOPS will be
supported. Time may be set aside for engineering during eclipse season.
On Thursday 23 December and Friday 31 December, TRACE will load plans
through the following Tuesday.
Starting 6 January, TRACE's normal uplink station will be in
maintenance until mid-February. As a result, TRACE will have to send
loads early (before 10am local time - times will vary).
- Except for Major Flare Watches, TRACE will be doing full disk mosaics
if/when EIT is not able to do synoptic sets due to keyhole operations.
- MDI continuous contacts are listed in Section 2 a) below and on the
SOHO calendar.
- ALL KNOWN submode dependent activities & submode schedule:
* TOO JOP153/MMOP003 Future Major Flare Watch (SM5 if SUMER
observes target, SM6 otherwise), TBC
* TOO JOP175 Extended Filaments at the Limb (see sect. 2a), SM6
* Dec 1-Dec 18 SUMER detector A campaign, SM5
* Dec 13-Dec 26 26m Keyhole (Dec 16-26 34m Keyhole), SM5
* Feb 16,23 EIT Shutterless #18, SM6 (see times in Section 2a)
* Mar 2-Apr 1 26m Keyhole (Mar 10-24 34m Keyhole), SM5
* Apr 1-May 3 SUMER Campaign, SM5, TBC
* May 4,11 EIT Shutterless #19, SM6 (see times in Section 2a)
* May 16-June 5 MEDOC Campaign, SM5, TBC
* Jun 5-25 26m Keyhole (Jun 10-20 34m Keyhole), SM5
* Aug 24, 31 EIT Shutterless #20, SM6, date TBC for Aug 31
* Aug 29-Sep 29 26m Keyhole (Sep 7-21 34m Keyhole), SM6
* Oct 19,26 EIT Shutterless #21, SM6, TBC
* Nov 1-Dec 15 SUMER Campaign, SM5, TBC
* Dec 3-21 26m Keyhole (Dec 7-16 34m Keyhole), SM5
* 06/05/01-06/15 SUMER Campaign
* 06/11/01-12/15 SUMER Campaign
Submodes:
Submode 5 until 28 December 2004, 17:30UT, then Submode 6 until March keyhole
- EIT Bakeout/Other
* Dec 11-Dec 28 EIT Bakeout
- Commanding outlook: See AOB section.
2. Priorities for the coming month & more
a) Joint observing plans and campaigns
Continuing campaigns:
* 2002/02/25-- JOP136 Default RHESSI Collaborations (#6850), POC:Stein Haugan
* 2003/05/13-- Default CDS Co-observations with TRACE (#6950)
* 2004/11/15-- JOP153/MMOP003 Future Major Flare Watch (#8001)
* 2002/04/25-- JOP159 CMEs in Lyman-alpha (#6870), SWAN/LASCO/EIT/UVCS,
POC: Chris St Cyr, Eric Quemerais
* Feb-Sep 2004 Quiescent AR Loop Diagnostics (#7019), CDS/TRACE/EIT/SUMER,
POC: Helen Mason (h.e.mason@damtp.cam.ac.uk),
Local POC: CDS Planner
* 2004/02/19-- JOP175 Extended Filaments at the Limb, EIT/TRACE/LASCO/UVCS,
POC: Chris St Cyr (Chris.StCyr@nasa.gov)
* 2003/07/01-- Network-Internetwork Oscillations (#7033), EIT/TRACE,
POC: Scott McIntosh
Campaign #6850 is for "individual instrument studies" selecting an AR
target [partially] influenced by the Max Millennium target selection
to maximise chances of serendipitous co-observations.
The running of the Quiescent AR Loops is left to the decision of the
CDS planner.
EIT supports all with half/full-res 195 Å CME watch in submode 5/6,
except JOP175 getting half/full-res 304 Å CME watch in submode 5/6,
and Network-Internetwork Oscillations which is TBD by Scott McIntosh.
As long as the S/C is in submode 6, all EIT CME watch will be in full
res.
An extension of the Quiescent AR Loop Diagnostics campaign is being
discussed by the CDS team.
Campaign 7033 is dormant until after the TRACE eclipse season.
* Dec 1-Dec 18 SUMER detector A campaign
* Dec 11-28 EIT Bakeout
* Dec 21 S/C Maneuvers
* Dec 26 High Rate on 34m stations resumes, TBC
* Dec 28 Submode Change to Submode 6, 17:30 UT
* Dec 29 High Rate on 26m stations resumes, TBC
* Feb 3-6 MDI Continuous Contact
* Feb 16 EIT Shutterless #18, segment 1, 14:00-16:40 UT
EIT requests that SVM is moved to 11UT for this day.
* Feb 23 EIT Shutterless #18, segment 2, 12:00-14:40 UT
EIT requests that SVM is moved to 11UT for this day.
* Mar 2-Apr 1 26m Keyhole (Mar 10-24 34m Keyhole)
* Apr 1-3 MDI Continuous Contact
* Apr 1-May 3 SUMER Campaign (submode 5)
* May 4,11 EIT Shutterless #19, segment 1, 16:00-18:40 UT
A submode change to submode 6 is requested for May 3.
* May 1-15 Moat Flows and Magnetic Features Around Sunspots,
MDI/TRACE/Sac Peak,
POC: Mandy Hagenaar (hagenaar@lmsal.com), TBC
MDI will support with high resolution mag/doppler/filtergrams. We
have requested extra DSN coverage for this time between 14-22UT
daily.
TRACE has been contacted, awaiting more details.
b) Intercalibration activities
Last Intercal 1: October 14 (Week 42)
* Week 1 ICAL01, CDS/EIT, TBC
c) Individual instrument plans
MDI:
See section 1 (boundary conditions) for MDI continuous contact
periods.
With the recording patch in place for the winter keyhole, and given
that MDI can expect near-continuous medium-l data and some VC2
during 70m contacts, MDI will take 3 magnetograms per day (00 UT, 08
UT and 16 UT). The 00 UT magnetogram will be downlinked in VC1, the
other two in VC2. The 08 UT and 16 UT magnetograms will be
downlinked in VC2 every ~1.5-2.5 days and should be available on the
web as usual for planning.
All requests for MDI support need to be made several months ahead of
time and sent to mdi-ops@mdisas.nascom.nasa.gov. Even outside
keyholes, MDI can only do 1-minute cadence observations when we have
contact and there is no recorder dump in progress.
MDI's REQUEST page is at
http://mdisas.nascom.nasa.gov/coordination.txt NOTE: Listing of a
study on that page means *only* that a request has been received, not
that it will necessarily be supported.
A description of MDI Observing Modes most used for JOPs and campaigns
(FD vs. HR) can be found at http://mdisas.nascom.nasa.gov/Collaborate.
Anyone requesting MDI observations is encouraged to read this page in
order to have a better idea of what observing modes would be best suited
for a particular study. More detailed information about how MDI
operates, observational constraints and telemetry information can be
found at http://mdisas.nascom.nasa.gov/MDI_Collaboration_Details.
UVCS:
For weekly plans, see the SOHO calendar and the UVCS planning page:
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/uvcs/observations/obst.html
The following are listed because of NRT requirements or as candidates
for collaboration (with e.g. CDS):
* Dec 31-Jan 09 Streamer Study
* Jan 10-16 Observations of Polar Coronal Holes
* Jan 17-23 Observations of Coronal Streamers Above 2.5 Solar Radii
* Jan 24-30 Observations of Polar Coronal Holes
* Jan 31-Feb 06 Streamer Study
CDS:
See their request diary for details:
http://solar.bnsc.rl.ac.uk/scientificops/request.shtml
LASCO/EIT:
* Dec 11-28 EIT Bakeout
* Feb 16,23 EIT Shutterless
SUMER:
SUMER plans to resume operations from April 1 - May 3.
TRACE:
TRACE is in eclipse season, estimated to end around February 4. Eclipse
operations will be simple as usual, by default no new JOPS will be
supported. Time may be set aside for engineering during eclipse season.
NOTE that TRACE in general reserves the right to withdraw support from
agreed, existing collaborations if a sufficiently "good active region"
is called by the Max Millennium group.
3. AOB
* Next SPWG: Friday 28 January, right after weekly meeting in the EOF.
The rest are FYI items:
* If anyone has projects that require high-cadence MDI support, now is a
good time to ask! If you need MDI data, make sure you request it
specifically. There is no significant change in the shutter
performance over the last 10 months; monitoring continues, but no
immediate changes in operations are planned.
* DSN support should be requested at least 6 months in advance. Keep
this in mind for: ground-based collaborations that require MDI
support, stellar/shutterless observations that require NRT, etc.
* Commanding outlook:
The end of December and early January finishes up the keyhole, so
contact is limited. In January, the first few weeks have small gaps
most days. Week 3 has some large gaps in the beginning, but otherwise
the rest of the month has good contact with some small gaps every
few days.
As am experimental product, "visual" DSN schedules are available at
http://zeus.nascom.nasa.gov/~shaugan/dsn/(wn).gif or
http://zeus.nascom.nasa.gov/~shaugan/dsn/(wn).ps
where (wn) is week number (01-53). For the weeks covered here:
http://zeus.nascom.nasa.gov/~shaugan/dsn/52.gif
http://zeus.nascom.nasa.gov/~shaugan/dsn/53.gif
http://zeus.nascom.nasa.gov/~shaugan/dsn/01.gif
http://zeus.nascom.nasa.gov/~shaugan/dsn/02.gif
http://zeus.nascom.nasa.gov/~shaugan/dsn/03.gif
http://zeus.nascom.nasa.gov/~shaugan/dsn/04.gif
Each "line" shows one "day", from 00 UT until 04 UT next day, with
BOT, station, and EOT indicated with text inside the plotted
coverage box for each contact (upper left corner, middle, and lower
right corner, respectively). Downlink only stations are indicated in
red, uplink/downlink stations are indicated with both stations'
details. "Reasonable working hours" (8am-5pm GSFC time - note that
first day [Sunday] after DST starts/ends is not correctly annotated)
are indicated in green, as well as default Daily SVM time (gray),
14-15 UT.