SOHO SPWG Minutes
SPWG FINAL MINUTES
Friday 27 January 2006
1. Boundary conditions
- SOHO is up-side down until next roll. The next SK/MM will be on
March 7, the next 180 degree roll will be on March 15. The thruster
firings and roll are decoupled to have the roll as late as possible,
to decrease chances of bad telemetry during the keyhole. For more
details, see note under section 3.
- Graphical DSN schedule: http://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/soc/dsn/
- All available keyhole information (including March 2006 keyhole) is at
http://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/soc/keyholes.html
- 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.
- KNOWN submode dependent activities/submode changes:
* TOO JOP153/MMOP003 Future Major Flare Watch (SM5 if SUMER
observes target, SM6 otherwise)
* TOO JOP175 Extended Filaments at the Limb (see sect. 2a), SM6
* Feb 18-27 JOP175 Extended Filaments at the Limb (see sect. 2a), SM6
* Feb 22-Mar 21 26m Keyhole (Feb 28-16 34m Keyhole), SM5/6
* Feb 28 Submode change to Submode 5, 18:55 UT
* Mar 17 Submode change to Submode 6, 18:55 UT
* Mar 17-30 JOP175 Extended Filaments at the Limb (see sect. 2a), SM6 **
* Mar 22 Submode change to Submode 5, 19:40 UT
* Mar 23-Apr 4 SUMER mini-campaign, SM5
* Mar 29 Solar Eclipse, 08:34-11:48 UT, SM5
* Mar 31/Apr 4 Submode change to Submode 6
* Apr 12,19 EIT Shutterless #23, 18:00-20:40 UT, SM6
* May 27-Jun 14 26m Keyhole (May 31-Jun 11 34m Keyhole), SM5/6
* Jul 26,Aug 2 EIT Shutterless #24, SM6, TBC
* Aug 21-Sep 19 26m Keyhole (Aug 28-Sep 13 34m Keyhole), SM5/6
* Oct 18,25 EIT Shutterless #25, SM6, TBC
* Nov 1-Dec 15 SUMER Campaign, SM5, TBC
* Nov 24-Dec 11 26m Keyhole (Nov 27-Dec 08 34m Keyhole), SM5/6
** Note that we will be in submode 5 due to the keyhole until March
17 and going back again on March 22 for the SUMER campaign.
Some of the default SUMER campaign dates overlap with keyholes -
which is not a problem in itself (submode 5 will often be needed for
keyholes anyhow) as long as potential periods of no SUMER data
between passes can be accepted.
SUMER plans a compact campaign at MEDOC starting Mar 23 and ending
Apr 4. Will need EOF support during weekend Mar 25-26 for NRT from
MEDOC. Ending date could be as early as Mar 31, weekend is
contingency.
SUMER will make a raster in the EIT FOV during the EIT shutterless
#23, segment 1 (April 12). Program will be loaded during the
mini-campaign and started either by time-tag or manually (need Chris
to press the button), to be decided later. SUMER contact: Maria
Madjarska.
- EIT Bakeout/Other
EIT will bakeout during the March keyhole, dates TBD.
- TRACE Eclipse period
* Oct 14-Feb 17 TRACE Hard Eclipse Season
TRACE loads plans only 3 days a week (Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays).
2. Priorities for the coming month and more
a) Joint observing plans and campaigns
Continuing campaigns:
* 2002/02/25-- JOP136 Default RHESSI Collaborations (#6850), POC:Stein Haugan
* 2002/04/25-- JOP159 CMEs in Lyman-alpha (#6870), SWAN/LASCO/EIT/UVCS,
POC: Chris St Cyr, Eric Quemerais
* 2003/05/13-- Default CDS Co-observations with TRACE (#6950)
* 2003/07/01-- Network-Internetwork Oscillations (#7033), EIT/TRACE,
POC: Scott McIntosh
* 2004/02/19-- JOP175 Extended Filaments at the Limb (#7135),
EIT/TRACE/LASCO/UVCS,
POC: Chris St Cyr (Chris.StCyr@nasa.gov)
* 2005/09/20-- JOP153/MMOP003 Future Major Flare Watch (#8006)
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.
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. Major Flare Watches will be in full-res even if
it requires a submode change, unless the target is observed by
SUMER.
JOP175 is listed as a top-priority TOO for February 18-27 and March
17-30. UVCS will participate during all of the first period, and
during March 17-26.
* Jan 31 Sounding Rocket Launch, MOSES/CDS/EIT/MDI/TRACE, 17:49 UT,
POC: Charles Kankelborg (kankel@solar.physics.montana.edu)
Sounding Rocket Launch, EUNIS/EIT/CDS/TRACE/VLA, 18:19 UT
POC: Jeffrey.W.Brosius.1@gsfc.nasa.gov
February 2 or 3 is the (unofficial) backup launch day with times of
17:54 UT and 18:24 UT. The launch range does not commit the date until
after the primary launch date.
We have 2 DSN stations between 16:50-21:10 on Jan 31, we will ask
the FOT to delay the dump to allow MDI high rate data for the rocket
support. We now also have double downlink stations for the same time
interval for February 2.
MDI: Jeff has expressed interest in getting more MDI Continuum
images than just the 96 minute images. I think an acceptable
compromise is to run p30c_fd_m1 during the flights to get 1 minute
cadence Continuum images along with Magnetograms. MDI will run that
different campaign as long as there are no objections. MDI realizes
that SOHO may have to be in record for any flights that are
postponed until Feb 01 or after.
CDS plans have been worked out.
EIT's (non-shutterless) plan is to use full-field, full-res (fffr)
synoptic sets at the following timings for the rocket supports:
17:30 UT fffr 171 image
17:36 UT fffr 284 image
17:43 UT fffr 195 image
17:49 UT fffr 304 image
18:00 UT fffr 171 image
18:06 UT fffr 284 image
18:13 UT fffr 195 image
18:19 UT fffr 304 image
18:30 UT fffr 171 image
18:36 UT fffr 284 image
18:43 UT fffr 195 image
18:49 UT fffr 304 image
* Feb 3-6 MDI Continuous Contact
The plan is full disk Magnetograms/Dopplergrams (in best focus for
full disk mode).
* Feb 13-17 TRACE Annealing
* Feb 18-27 JOP175 (#7135), Priority TOO, EIT/LASCO/TRACE/UVCS
* Feb 22-Mar 21 26m Keyhole (Feb 28-16 34m Keyhole)
* Mar 17-30 JOP175 (#7135), Priority TOO, EIT/LASCO/TRACE/UVCS
We stay in submode 5 until March 17 due to the keyhole, and go back
to submode 5 on March 22 due to the SUMER mini-campaign. EIT
support with full-res 304 CME Watch is only possible in submode 6.
UVCS will participate March 17-26.
* Mar 22-May 21 MDI 60-day Continuous Contact
Full disk Magnetograms/Dopplergrams.
* Mar 23-Apr 4 SUMER mini-campaign
See also section 1 for details:
- detector health check
- plume observations
- Jop 002
- AR loops (off limb)
SUMER contact will be Udo Schuehle/Klaus Wilhelm.
* Mar 29 Solar Eclipse, 08:34-11:48 UT, SUMER/UVCS/TRACE/CDS(TBC),
POC: Alan Gabriel (gabriel@ias.fr)
Solar Eclipse, 10:40 UT, EIT/TRACE/LASCO,
POC: Serge Koutchmy (koutchmy@iap.fr)
Solar Eclipse, 10:53-11 UT, TRACE/EIT,
POC: Jay.M.Pasachoff@williams.edu
SUMER has been requested to support ground based observations during
this eclipse, so we will be in submode 5 around this date - from
about March 23-April 4. The observations will be along the lines of
JOP002, but suggestions about a roll have been withdrawn, so an
updated (actually, new!) JOP description should be drawn up.
For eclipse details, see:
http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SEmono/TSE2006/TSE2006.html
CDS support for Alan Gabriel's request is under consideration.
UVCS will participate for Mar. 27-31.
Serge Koutchmy sent an email on 16 November with requested
observations from TRACE, EIT, LASCO for the eclipse: One 304 image
at 10:40 UT +/- 2 min, and one 195 image as close as possible to
that, either before or after. Routine images taken hours before and
after will also be useful. LASCO images (near-simultaneous, within
+/- 10 min, and hours before/after) are also needed.
EIT has been asked by Jay Pasachoff for a synoptic set around 11:00
UT, as well as as frequent as possible synoptic sets (usual cadence)
+/-1 day around the time of eclipse, as provided in the past. While
they're enthusiastic about the science that SUMER will be doing
during the eclipse, they have some concern that EIT and LASCO may
not have enough bandwidth in submode 5 to meet the requests rigth
around the time(s) of totality. Kevin probably needs to make up a
plan before we can feel comfortable.
MDI wonders if we will be in record for the eclipse?
SOC note: So far, nobody has requested it, and it would mean poking
a hole in the MDI 60-day continuous contact. It's a unique event,
but nobody has so far made a convincing argument that a "typical"
(i.e. small) dropout of data would ruin the entire observing
sequence or compromise a wider science goal (as is the case with
e.g. calibration flights). Data recovery is above 99% on average.
* Apr 12,19 EIT Shutterless #23, 18:00-20:40 UT
SUMER plans to observe on April 12, with buffered observations in
submode 6.
CDS will participate.
TRACE will very likely participate.
MDI will support Shutterless #23 with Full Disk Magnetograms and
Dopplergrams along with 96 minute synoptic Magnetograms and
Continuum images.
* May 27-Jun 14 26m Keyhole (May 31-Jun 11 34m Keyhole)
b) Intercalibration activities
Last Intercal 1: January 4
* Feb 01 ICAL01 (#7113), CDS/EIT
* Week 8 ICAL01 (#7113), CDS/EIT
c) Individual instrument plans
MDI:
See section 2a for MDI continuous contact periods.
MDI may reduce the ALT cadence during Keyholes to be less than 15 ALT
magnetograms per day if the lack of high rate telemetry is such that
we will lose all or almost all of the 15 ALT Magnetograms each day.
The ALT cadence will be decided on an individual Keyhole basis and
even a daily basis during each Keyhole depending on the 70m antenna
availability at the time.
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.
MDI is back in best focus for Full Disk observing.
UVCS:
We have been using the LyA detector for some observations and will
keep planning so when appropriate.
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):
* Jan 11-Jan 29 UVCS South Polar Coronal Hole Study
* Jan 30-Feb 09 UVCS Streamer Study
* Feb 10-15 UVCS Suprathermal Seed Particle Population
* Feb 16-17 UVCS Observations of 38 Aqr
CDS:
See their request diary for details:
http://solar.bnsc.rl.ac.uk/scientificops/request.shtml
A re-calibration of GIS (filament and raw data dumps) is under
consideration.
LASCO/EIT:
SUMER:
SUMER plans a compact campaign starting Mar 23 and ending Apr 4.
Ending date could be as early as Mar 31, weekend is contingency.
Needs confirmation by IAS.
TRACE:
The outcome of the Senior Review of all Sun-Solar System missions in
the fall of 2005 will determine the level of support (or no support)
for each mission in the future. TRACE operations will continue
through at least the fall of 2006. The NASA response to the Senior
Review panel recommendations for operations beyond that are expected
to be released by February 2006.
The outcome of the Senior Review of all Sun-Solar System missions this
fall will determine the level of support (or no support) for each
mission in the future. TRACE operations will continue through at least
the rest of the year.
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.
The TRACE eclipse season is expected to end February 17. TRACE will load
plans 3 times a week (Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays).
3. AOB
* Next SPWG:
F Feb 24 SPWG after Daily/Weekly Meetings
* For discussion during the meeting:
We have gotten mixed feedback regarding the new meeting format.
Some like it, others don't. Most importantly, teams with widely
spread teams like the old format b/c of the simplicity of forwarding
a draft response for proofing. Most likely we will do something
that will suit everyone quite well: We will provide the old style
emails with "request-for-comment" lines in addition to the
highlighted differences from last final minutes; people can respond
in whatever form they like - with or without including the whole
text from the email. To simplify the work of putting in/taking out
the request-for-comment lines, they will stay in the minutes (also
on the web) until the calendar item expires.
It has also been suggested to eliminate the monthly meetings
entirely and do it all over email, sending out the final version
whenever all responses are in. The arguments are that there is
little added value in "getting together just to have the responses
read to us", and eliminating the meeting would give everyone more
time without a stressful time crunch.
At the meeting, Stein argued as follows: There is a need to keep
deadlines for responses roughly as they are - things keep changing
so the comments must be collected over a confined period of time, or
else they get outdated. Although it is superfluous in theory to go
over the changes (cursorily) at the meeting - they should all be
clearly visible on the web page - there is some added value in case
people have not had time to look over the changes, because relevant
questions may become apparent.
Stein suggested an alternate solution: to have the deadlines for
responses as they are now (Thursday afternoon), but let people have
all Friday to read them and come up with any questions. The
questions (if any!) would then be raised as an AOB at the daily
meeting the following Monday. However, it would be nice to stick
with the current arrangement until Tero Siili (Stein's replacement
has had a chance to form an opinion).
The rest are FYI items:
* Why decouple the SK/MM and the roll?
The LGA stick antenna we use during the 34m keyhole does not beam
the signal uniformly. In particular during the "long" keyholes
(spring and fall), the small difference due to the up/down
orientation of SOHO is enough to cause a difference in the downlink
quality, with the quality always being worse *after* the roll
because it then points in a less favourable direction. So, we want
the roll to be as late as possible, but before the transponder swap
back to the HGA (the HGA orientation is of course why we need to do
the roll in the first place).
For the SK/MM it is desirable to have a fairly long set of passes to
accommodate the "maneuver prep", manoevres, and "maneuver end"
activities in one go. In addition, the burns themselves should be
performed on a single station (not a D/L + U/L combination) so
ranging can be done to assess the actual delta-v along the line of
sight.
For the roll, the preparation+roll+cleanup takes much less time and
there's no need for ranging, so almost any decent pass will be
sufficient.
If the two different sets of criteria ("long pass[es] with ranging
in the middle" vs "almost any decent pass right before the
transponder swap") cannot be fulfilled on a single day, we're likely
to split the two operations. (Note - only MDI needs any safing
before a roll, so not much time is wasted by splitting it up).
This whole thing became clear some time before the previous keyhole
- but that keyhole was a short one (i.e. better signal-to-noise
ratio in the first place), plus the natural SK/MM placement was
fairly close to the transponder swap going out of the keyhole.
* If anyone has projects that require high rate (i.e. 1 minute
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.