DRAFT MINUTES FOR SOHO SPWG MEETING ON 20071026 Latest Update: $Date: 2007/10/26 13:29:10 $ $Author: tsiili $ $Revision: 1.14 $ Change log is at the end of the document. 1. Boundary conditions a) Orbit, attitude and manoeuvres - SOHO is in right side up roll (0 deg) position - manoeuvres To the degree possible, manoeuvres take place during the last days of 34-m keyholes. Currently set manoeuvre dates are: Nov 27 roll, station-keeping and momentum management (timing TBC) b) Communications with the spacecraft Graphical DSN schedule: http://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/soc/dsn/ Keyhole dates for the next 6 months: * Nov 15-Dec 2 26 m keyhole * Nov 19-28 34 m keyhole * Feb 4-Mar 2 26 m keyhole * Feb 11-24 34 m keyhole - The need and approach to reduce FOT manpower requirements needed for complex operations during the keyhole remains in effect until further notice. All available keyhole information is at http://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/soc/keyholes.html. Direct link to the list of estimated dates for future keyholes is http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/soc/keyholes.txt. c) KNOWN submode (SM) dependent activities/submode changes: * TOO JOP153/MMOP003 Future Major Flare Watch (SM5 if SUMER observes target, SM6 otherwise) * Oct 25-Nov 1 SUMER campaign preparations (SM5) * Nov 6 EUNIS Sounding Rocket Launch, primary launch window 16:45-16:55 UT; secondary launch window 18:00-18:40 UT (TBC; SM5, SUMER supports) * Nov 2-16 Polar Plume and Active Region Morphology Studies, SUMER/CDS/MDI/UVCS/EIT/VTT/HINODE/TRACE/STEREO-EUVI (SM5) * Jan 23, 30 EIT shutterless #30 (SM6) * Apr 9,16 EIT Shutterless #31 (SM6) * Apr 21-May 16 SUMER Campaign, TBC (SM5) - 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. - 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. d) Instrument maintenance activities EIT bakeout periods will be during keyholes. Dates and times are defined when the DSN schedules become available. e) Others TRACE winter eclipse season is 13 Sep 2007 - 13 Mar 2008. Hard eclipses started on 23 Sep 2007. Unattended automated night passes for SOHO began October 6 2007. MDI question: is there statistics available on how well the unattanded automated night passes have been going? 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: Tero Siili * 2003/05/13-- Default CDS Co-observations with TRACE (#6950) * 2005/09/20-- JOP153/MMOP003 Future Major Flare Watch (#8008) * 2007/03/20-- Default CDS/Hinode-EIS co-observations (#7200) Campaign #6850 is for "individual instrument studies" selecting an active region target [partially] influenced by the Max Millennium target selection to maximise chances of serendipitous co-observations. EIT supports all with half/full-res 195 A CME watch in submode 5/6. It is clear that STEREO-EUVI provides adequate "context" information for RHESSI flare observations. Routine EIT submode and resolution switches are probably no longer needed. * Oct 25-Nov 1 SUMER campaign preparations (timing TBC) Submode change will be on Oct 25 at 19:30 UT. SUMER door opening and setup will begin on Oct 25. More comprehensive description of the Oct-Nov 2007 SUMER-Hinode set of collaborations is below under title "Polar Plume and Active Region Morphology Studies" for dates Nov 2-16. * Oct 26-29 MDI 3-day Continuous Contact The default observing campaign for the 3-day Continuous Contact will be 3-variable high-resolution observing mode, with a 7'x7' extract, probably with tracking across disk center, in coordination with Hinode. * Oct 30-Nov 5 JOP197/HOP044 Observations of Coronal Hole Plumes (#7243), CDS/SUMER/UVCS/Hinode-EIS/Hinode-SOT/Hinode-XRT/ STEREO-COR1/STEREO-EUVI/TRACE/, POC: Giulio Del Zanna A Hinode HOP (titled "Multi-wavelength observation of coronal hole plumes at solar minimum") asking for a Hinode observing period 30 Oct - 5 Nov has been proposed by Del Zanna. The proposal has been accepted, and assigned the number 44 (http://www.isas.jaxa.jp/home/solar/hinode_op/hop.php?hop=0044). CDS will participate. A web site/campaign interface has been set up for the late Oct-Nov campaigns and JOPs involving SUMER or Hinode. The URL is http://www.mps.mpg.de/homes/theissen/scr/planning/index.html. See also the entry for "Polar Plume and Active Region Morphology Studies" below. --> #Hinode-EIS, #Hinode-SOT - changes, comments? --> #Hinode-XRT, #STEREO - changes, comments? * Nov 1-16 JOP196 Detection of Waves in the Solar Atmosphere (#7244), CDS/SUMER/Hinode-EIS/Hinode-SOT/Hinode-XRT/STEREO-EUVI/ TRACE/VTT-TIP2, POC: Luca Teriaca CDS will participate. A web site/campaign interface has been set up for the late Oct-Nov campaigns and JOPs involving SUMER or Hinode. The URL is http://www.mps.mpg.de/homes/theissen/scr/planning/index.html. See also the entry for "Polar Plume and Active Region Morphology Studies" below. --> #Hinode-EIS, #Hinode-SOT - changes, comments? --> #Hinode-XRT, #STEREO - changes, comments? * Nov 2-11 JOP198 Spectral Observations of Spicule Dynamics (#7245), SUMER/Hinode-EIS/Hinode-SOT/Hinode-XRT/TRACE/NSO-DST, POC: Kevin Reardon A web site/campaign interface has been set up for the late Oct-Nov campaigns and JOPs involving SUMER or Hinode. The URL is http://www.mps.mpg.de/homes/theissen/scr/planning/index.html. See also the entry for "Polar Plume and Active Region Morphology Studies" below. --> #Hinode-EIS, #Hinode-SOT, #Hinode-XRT - changes, comments? * Nov 2-16 Polar Plume and Active Region Morphology Studies, SUMER/CDS/MDI/UVCS/EIT/VTT/HINODE/TRACE/STEREO-EUVI, POC: Davina Innes There are several JOPs associated with this campaign. These are listed separately on the calendar (see above and below) and have separate campaign numbers. The overall schedule for the proposed JOPs/HOPs is frozen. POC in ISAS: Enrico Landi (TBC) POC in MPS: Davina Innes SUMER operators and POCs in GSFC: Udo Schuehle, Dietmar Germerott A web-based campaign interface/planning tool has been set up for the implementation of JOPs/HOPs involving SUMER or Hinode. The time period is 2-16 Nov. The URL is http://www.mps.mpg.de/homes/theissen/scr/planning/index.html. The interface is hopefully self explanatory but Davina Innes will be writing to planners and observers to make sure that they are OK with it. All teams participating in the SUMER campaign of November (now including the EUNIS flight) are strongly encouraged to use this tool for communicating observational details. It will serve for the overall organisation of the campaign as well as for the daily planning. Please check and complete your entries. NOTE: the instrument planners CAN but do not HAVE to upload to/through the web interface. It is there as an alternative to emailing the observers. However, some observers ask for confirmation that their target requests got through. To facilitate the work of planners a feature "links to timelines" is included. From there one can go straight to the SoHO targets, TRACE, Hinode-SOT, MDI timelines. If these links are kept up-to-date then there is no more need for uploading by the instrument planners. Further links will be added if needed and available. Werner Curdt writes that observers are requested to contact all instrument teams involved and to timely submit JOP/HOP descriptions with all the observational details approved. The responsibility for the proposed studies rests with the observers. Note, that TRACE will be in eclipse at that time, and EUV observations will be constrained. CDS will join the campaign. All Hinode and SUMER users are invited to submit requests for complementary CDS observations. Send requests to A.Fludra (at) rl.ac.uk and P.R.Young (at) rl.ac.uk. MDI will support the Polar Plume & AR study and the associated JOPs to the extent possible (given high rate telemetry availability and our rule of switching modes at most once per day). The Helioseismology study with Hinode has been changed to Dec 3-6. Our current default plan is to stay in full disk observing mode unless/until the Lindau POC asks otherwise. EIT is apparently uninvolved, so we assume that our default program is sufficient for anyone not using STEREO SECCHI EUVI data. --> #HINODE, #STEREO - changes, comments? * Nov 2-16 JOP104 Doppler Shifts in X-ray Jets (#7242), CDS/EIT/SUMER//RHESSI/TRACE(TBD), POC: Davina Innes Support request list for this run of the JOP remains TBC. TRACE can support and is requesting for more information on the type of support requested. No EIT participation defined. Regular synoptics and half-res CME watch in 195 A are assumed to suffice. CDS will support. * Nov 2-16 JOP190/HOP027 Temperature, Density and 3-D Structure of AR Loops (#7247), CDS/SUMER/MDI/Hinode-EIS/Hinode-SOT/ Hinode-XRT(TBD)/TRACE(TBD)/STEREO/VTT/Huairou, POC: Davina Innes A web site/campaign interface has been set up for the late Oct-Nov campaigns and JOPs involving SUMER or Hinode. The URL is http://www.mps.mpg.de/homes/theissen/scr/planning/index.html. See also the entry for "Polar Plume and Active Region Morphology Studies" below. Ground based supports for October were cancelled and moved to November. CDS will support. MDI will support JOP190. The Helioseismology study with Hinode has been changed to Dec 3-6. Since the 60-day continuous contact is moved, MDI can provide either full-disk or high-resolution mode observations. MDI can provide observations to all of the requested JOPs if we have high rate data and if the targets for each do not conflict (i.e., one JOP wants high-resolution and another wants full-disk or some other pointing in high-resolution mode). MDI will not switch observing modes on timescales less than 24 h. --> #Hinode-EIS, #Hinode-SOT - changes, comments? --> #Hinode-XRT, #STEREO - changes, comments? * Nov 2-16 JOP191/HOP027 Structure and Evolution of Filaments/ Prominences (#7248), CDS/SUMER/MDI/Hinode-EIS(TBD)/ Hinode-SOT/Hinode-XRT(TBD)/TRACE(TBD)/STEREO/VTT/Huairou, POC: Davina Innes A web site/campaign interface has been set up for the late Oct-Nov campaigns and JOPs involving SUMER or Hinode. The URL is http://www.mps.mpg.de/homes/theissen/scr/planning/index.html. See also the entry for "Polar Plume and Active Region Morphology Studies" above. Ground based supports for October were cancelled and moved to November. CDS will support. MDI will support JOP191. The Helioseismology study with Hinode has been changed to Dec 3-6. Since the 60 Day CC is moved, MDI can provide either FD or HR mode observations. See also response to JOP190 above. --> #Hinode-EIS - changes, comments? --> #Hinode-SOT, #Hinode-XRT, #STEREO - changes, comments? * Nov 2-16 JOP192/HOP027 Chromospheric Heating - Waves and Reconnection (#7249), CDS/SUMER/MDI/Hinode-EIS(TBD)/ Hinode-SOT/Hinode-XRT(TBD)/TRACE(TBD)/STEREO/VTT/Huairou, POC: Davina Innes A web site/campaign interface has been set up for the late Oct-Nov campaigns and JOPs involving SUMER or Hinode. The URL is http://www.mps.mpg.de/homes/theissen/scr/planning/index.html. See also the entry for "Polar Plume and Active Region Morphology Studies" above. CDS will support. Since the 60 Day CC is moved, MDI can provide either FD or HR mode observations. See also response to JOP190 above. MDI will support JOP192. The Helioseismology study with Hinode has been changed to Dec 3-6. Since the 60 Day CC is moved, MDI can provide either FD or HR mode observations. See also response to JOP190 above. --> #Hinode-EIS - changes, comments? --> #Hinode-SOT, #Hinode-XRT, #STEREO - changes, comments? * Nov 2-16 JOP193/HOP 031 Coronal Holes Boundaries Evolution (#7250), CDS/SUMER/MDI/Hinode-EIS/Hinode-SOT/Hinode-XRT/TRACE/ STEREO/VTT/Huairou, POC: Maria Madjarska A web site/campaign interface has been set up for the late Oct-Nov campaigns and JOPs involving SUMER or Hinode. The URL is http://www.mps.mpg.de/homes/theissen/scr/planning/index.html. See also the entry for "Polar Plume and Active Region Morphology Studies" above. CDS will support. Since the 60 Day CC is moved, MDI can provide either FD or HR mode observations. See also response to JOP190 above. Dates of this JOP were specified on Aug 23. That information has been e-mailed to instrument planners. TRACE will support and has updated the new times in its plans. MDI will support JOP193. The Helioseismology study with Hinode has been changed to Dec 3-6. Since the 60 Day CC is moved, MDI can provide either FD or HR mode observations. See also response to JOP190 above. --> #Hinode-EIS, #Hinode-SOT - changes, comments? --> #Hinode-XRT, #STEREO - changes, comments? * Nov 2-16 JOP199/HOP032 Magnetic Structure of Macrospicules (#7251), CDS/SUMER/Hinode-EIS/Hinode-SOT/Hinode-XRT/STEREO-SECCHI/ TRACE, POC: Gerry Doyle Timing is TBC. --> #Hinode-EIS, #Hinode-SOT, #Hinode-XRT - changes, comments? --> #STEREO - changes, comments? * Nov 4, 11-12 HOP003/Velocity Field in a Coronal Hole HOP003 Study #32, SUMER/Hinode-EIS/TRACE, POC: Suguru Kamio Re-run. For the HOP description see http://www.isas.jaxa.jp/home/solar/hinode_op/hop.php?hop=0003. SUMER is the only requested SOHO support. Allocated SUMER observation times are: from 2007-11-04T00:00:00 to 2007-11-04T06:00:00 from 2007-11-11T18:00:00 to 2007-11-12T00:00:00 TRACE support has been requested and the observation program has been discussed with TRACE planners. The plan is to obtain mainly 171 A 768x768 images and occasionally 195 A context images. A web site/campaign interface has been set up for the late Oct-Nov campaigns and JOPs involving SUMER or Hinode. The URL is http://www.mps.mpg.de/homes/theissen/scr/planning/index.html. See also the entry for "Polar Plume and Active Region Morphology Studies" above. --> #Hinode-EIS - changes, comments? * Nov 6 EUNIS Sounding Rocket Launch, primary launch window 16:45-16:55 UT; secondary launch window 18:00-18:40 UT, CDS/MDI/SUMER/EIT/TRACE/Hinode-EIS, POC: Jeff Brosius, Douglas Rabin, Roger Thomas Goals: Rapid-raster science, cross-calibration (EIS, CDS, EIT, TRACE) The primary launch window is earlier than that previously planned in order to maximize the available time to address any problems that may arise on the pad; this is especially important because White Sands has no backup launch date available during the week after November 6, and the next SOHO keyhole period runs from about November 15 through December 2. For a 2007 November 6 flight and if the launch time holds, the timelines for EUNIS and coordinated observations are (SAA = South Atlantic Anomaly): EUNIS 16:45 UT ---> Begin primary launch window 16:47 UT ---> Earliest primary start of EUNIS observations 16:53 UT ---> Earliest primary end of EUNIS observations 16:55 UT ---> End primary launch window 16:57 UT ---> Latest primary start of EUNIS observations 17:03 UT ---> Latest primary end of EUNIS observations 18:00 UT ---> Begin secondary launch window 18:02 UT ---> Earliest secondary start of EUNIS observations 18:08 UT ---> Earliest secondary end of EUNIS observations 18:40 UT ---> End secondary launch window 18:42 UT ---> Latest secondary start of EUNIS observations 18:48 UT ---> Latest secondary end of EUNIS observations Hinode/EIS 16:12 UT ---> Hinode SAA Entry 16:20 UT ---> Hinode SAA Exit 16:25 UT ---> Begin EIS raster #1 (ends at 17:18 UT) 17:18 UT ---> End EIS raster #1 (began at 16:25 UT) 17:18 UT ---> Begin EIS raster #2 (ends at 18:11 UT) 17:33 UT ---> Hinode SAA Entry 17:57 UT ---> Hinode SAA Exit 18:11 UT ---> End EIS raster #2 (began at 17:18 UT) 18:11 UT ---> Begin EIS raster #3 (ends at 19:04 UT) 19:04 UT ---> End EIS raster #3 (began at 18:11 UT) 19:10 UT ---> Hinode SAA Entry 19:34 UT ---> Hinode SAA Exit SOHO/CDS 13:27 - 14:52 UT ---> GISAT/v132 * TIME-TAGGED 14:57 - 17:00 UT ---> NIS4W/v62 * TIME-TAGGED 17:00 - 19:03 UT ---> NIS4W/v62 SOHO/EIT (full FOV, full resolution 1024 by 1024 pixels) 16:28 UT ---> 284 image 16:34 UT ---> 171 image 16:41 UT ---> 195 image 16:47 UT ---> 304 image 16:55 UT ---> 304 image 17:02 UT ---> 171 image 17:08 UT ---> 195 image 17:20 UT ---> 195 image 17:32 UT ---> 195 image 17:43 UT ---> 284 image 17:49 UT ---> 171 image 17:56 UT ---> 195 image 18:02 UT ---> 304 image 18:10 UT ---> 304 image 18:17 UT ---> 171 image 18:23 UT ---> 195 image TRACE 17:02 - 17:26 UT ---> Eclipse 17:26 - 18:02 UT ---> Full FOV 171 A images 17:28 - 17:36 UT ---> SAA 18:02 - 18:38 UT ---> Full FOV 195 A images 18:38 - 19:02 UT ---> Eclipse 19:01 - 19:15 UT ---> SAA SOHO will be in record between 13:00 and 19:08 UT and in contact via D24 between 15:50 and 21:30 UT (TBC). There will be no backup antenna. From Jeff Brosius (1): Ideally, we will get a sequence of four EIT images both before and after the flight, with the He II images obtained at the beginning and the end of the flight (similar to what was done on 12 April 2006). These are all valuable for context, but the He II images are especially useful for precise co-alignment of the EUNIS slit onto the solar disk. Ideally, we will also get at least one NIS4W raster (which takes CDS 2 hours to complete) of the target region. This will enable a direct cross-calibration with CDS (similar to what we are doing for the 2006 flight). A 96-minute MDI magnetogram will be sufficient. SUMER observations will expand the temperature coverage of the campaign and perhaps enable further cross-calibration. From Jeff Brosius (2): Please have a look at the schedule above, and let me know if you notice any problems or conflicts. I have tried to accommodate all of the instruments involved in the campaign, and I think that this schedule will enable us to meet our science and cross-calibration objectives. Note, in particular, that the first EIS raster covers the EUNIS primary launch window and would be obtained entirely between SAA passages, while the third EIS raster covers most of the EUNIS secondary launch window and would also be obtained entirely between SAA passages. The two CDS NIS4W rasters are also coordinated with the primary and secondary EUNIS launch windows. I need to ask Dawn if we can get an additional hour or two of TRACE 195 and 171 images before its eclipse begins at 17:02 UT, and I need to confirm with Joe and/or Kevin that EIT is willing to provide the additional set of images around the primary launch window. CDS will support, need more details. The target for the 6 November 2007 flight will likely be near (within 30 degrees of) disk center, and will be decided one day before launch (Monday 5 November) by the EUNIS team. MDI supports the EUNIS flight with 96-min magnetograms (and by suspending high-rate observations for 6 h). Since the SOHO SSR will be in record from 13:00 to 19:08 UT, MDI cannot support any SUMER/Hinode JOPs during that period, beyond full disk magnetograms at 14:24, 16:00, and 17:36 UT. EIT: Assuming launch does not slip into keyhole, should be able to support as requested. As stated at the last SWT, we would prefer to minimize the risk of sector wheel hang during rocket support observations by preserving the instrument-natural 171-304-284-195 order of images (or reverse); the current schedule appears to do so. A web site/campaign interface has been set up for the late Oct-Nov campaigns and JOPs involving SUMER or Hinode. The URL is http://www.mps.mpg.de/homes/theissen/scr/planning/index.html. See also the entry for "Polar Plume and Active Region Morphology Studies" above. * Nov 6-17 JOP195/HOP039 Characterization of Solar Wind Source Regions (#7252), CDS(TBD)/LASCO/SUMER/UVCS/Hinode-EIS, POC: Enrico Landi, Mari Paz Miralles A web site/campaign interface has been set up for the late Oct-Nov campaigns and JOPs involving SUMER or Hinode. The URL is http://www.mps.mpg.de/homes/theissen/scr/planning/index.html. See also the entry for "Polar Plume and Active Region Morphology Studies" above. A Hinode HOP has been proposed by Mari-Paz Miralles and Enrico Landi for an observation period Nov 6-17. CDS request to be kept informed of pointing. May co-observe if target of interest to CDS. LASCO will support JOP195/HOP039 with C2 pB orange filter at a 6 h cadence. --> #Hinode-EIS - changes, comments? * Nov TBD HOPnnn Detection of waves and jets above a coronal hole, SUMER/Hinode POC: S. Imada Recently submitted and in-process HOP proposal. * Nov TBD HOPnnn Extend temperature range of DEM analysis in lower corona and transition region SUMER/Hinode POC: K. Matsuzaki Recently submitted and in-process HOP proposal. * Dec 2--->2008 Exceptional Ulysses Quadrature (ends May 28, 2008) * Dec 3-Feb 3 MDI 60-day Continuous Contact The default observing campaign will be 1-min cadence full-disk Magnetograms/Dopplergrams (p30vr_fd_m1 - 1100) with the exception of high resolution observing for a helioseismology study with Hinode 3-6 Dec 2007. * Dec 17-23 Ulysses-SOHO Quadrature Observations, UVCS/Ulysses, POC: Giannina Poletto * Jan 23,30 EIT Shutterless #30 * Mar 3-May 4 MDI 60-day Continuous Contact This may be rescheduled. The MDI team would like to be apprised of any rescheduling and/or potential new dates as soon as possible. * Mar 20-Apr 16 Whole Heliosphere Interval (WHI) Campaign, CDS/MDI/UVCS/TRACE(TBC), POC: Sarah Gibson, TBD The current thinking is that this set of campaigns (associated with the International Heliospheric Year - IHY) will be structured as multiple JOPs, but be centrally coordinated in the same fashion as the Aug 2007 run of JOP194. The tentative JOP titles are * Linking the Corona to the Solar Wind at Ulysses * Origin of the Slow Solar Wind/Streamer Study * Coronal Hole Boundary * Quiet Sun * (Target of Opportunity) Active Region * (Target of Opportunity) Polar Crown Filament/Cavity JOP descriptions are expected by the Nov SPWG meeting. UVCS will support. TRACE has received a request to support. MDI can provide data for this, but MDI may be in another 60-day Continuous Contact, hence can only provide 1 minute full disk Magnetograms and Dopplergrams and 96 minute synoptic Magnetograms and 96 minute synoptic Continuum images when we have high rate. High-res observations would be very unlikely. CDS will participate and request to be forwarded description of JOPs involving CDS. * Apr 9,16 EIT Shutterless #31 * Apr 21-May 16 SUMER Campaign, TBC b) Intercalibration activities Last Intercal 1: 18 October 2007 * Nov 13-14 ICAL01 (#7113), CDS/EIT/Hinode-EIS, TBC Possible EIS collaboration. CDS views Hinode-EIS participation as extremely important. EIS and Stereo have been added to the Campaign #7113 description. Details and confirmation will be determined by the planners. EIT: ICALs are OK except (usually) during the weeks of shutterless --- whenever CDS prefers. --> #Hinode-EIS - changes, comments? 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 70 m antenna availability at the time. MDI may also downlink select magnetograms in the 5 kbps telemetry if no 70 m passes are available at least every 2 days for Mag dump in the 160 kbps telemetry. All requests for MDI support need to be made several months ahead of time and sent to mdi-ops(at)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 Focus 5 for best focus for FD observing and will stay there at least until March 2008. 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://www.cfa.harvard.edu/uvcs/observations/obst.html. CDS: For details see http://solar.bnsc.rl.ac.uk/scientificops/request.shtml. LASCO/EIT: EIT: 195 A CME watch plus synoptics at 6-hour cadence, as usual. Full-res CME watch whenever we're in submode 6. Hope never to change until the Bogart mission. SUMER: Nov 2-16 Polar Plume and Active Region Morphology Studies, SUMER/CDS/MDI/UVCS/EIT/VTT/HINODE/TRACE/STEREO-EUVI See details in Section 2a for list of JOPs/HOPs to be run at this time. There are tentative plans for another SUMER campaign from April 21 to May 16, 2008. TRACE: 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. For TRACE summer eclipse season see section 1e. During our fall eclipse season that starts in October, we will accept observing requests through November 1st. Any observations that are to take place after November 1st will be evaluated in October once eclipse season has started and then we will decide what makes sense for us to support. During the period of deepest eclipses (Nov. 16 - Feb. 15) of its winter eclipse season, TRACE will be operated by three command loads per week (Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays). TRACE will accept a limited number of JOP requests, giving preference to those that involve multiple observatories (in space and/or on the ground), provided that their targets can be specified on a schedule that is compatible with the reduced frequency in instrument command loads during the winter eclipse season). 3. Any other business * Next SPWG: Friday 30 November after daily & weekly meetings. LASCO: OK The rest are FYI items: * If anyone has projects that require high rate (i.e. 1 minute cadence and anything other than 96 minute synoptic Magnetograms) 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. * Future Mercury and Venus transits: SOC is requesting the Flight Dynamics Facility (FDF) to provide estimates and data for not only disk, but also for coronal transits. For this purpose FDF needs a criterion (radial/angular distance from Solar disk centre) to define the coronal transits. Currently FDF has been instructed to use SOHO/Sun/[Mercury,Venus] angle of (35 arcmin (from centre of Solar disk) as criterion. Instrument teams are requested to provide the SOC with information on whether a larger angle is applicable. * Hinode operational and planning information can be found from http://www.isas.jaxa.jp/home/solar/hinode_op/. For contacts with the Hinode team(s), some guidelines... General discussion of campaign plans that are evolving and are several months away should go to the Hinode instruments' science schedule coordinators (SSCs). If a single clearly primary Hinode instrument can be identified, the campaign coordinators should contact the SSC of that instrument only. The Hinode instrument planners will not be involved until the detailed pointings and such are being discussed. The SSCs for the different Hinode instruments are: EIS: Len Culhane, John Mariska, Tetsuya Watanabe SOT: Thomas Berger, Takashi Sekii XRT: Leon Golub, Kiyoto Shibasaki * STEREO operational and planning information can be found via http://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/, more specifically from http://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/plans.shtml. Lead time for special requests for STEREO supports should be at least a month. * The SOHO JOP/ICAL database and the web pages are now the Solar JOP/ICAL database and web pages. This is due to anticipated increased contributions by and collaborations as well as intercalibrations with STEREO and Hinode. * To provide more unambiguous identification, individual instruments on board spacecraft other than SOHO will be as of this SPWG be referred to with notation SPACECRAFT-INSTRUMENT, for example Hinode-EIS. * New JOP vs. modified existing JOP rules-of-thumb: New JOP, if/when scientifically or qualitatively new type of a coordination is set up; modified JOP, when the investigation (the foci or targets thereof) remains essentially the same but new instruments/spacecraft/GBOs/etc are brought to bear. * SOHO calendar email notifications: a new mailing list for notifications of changes in the SOHO calendar has been taken into use. Distributed changes are decided upon by the SOCs to be relevant (as opposed to corrections of typing errors, etc.). Examples are schedule changes, added and deleted campaigns and so forth. To join the list send e-mail to the SOCs. $Log: agenda.txt,v $ Revision 1.14 2007/10/26 13:29:10 tsiili Added comments from CDS/Fludra. Revision 1.13 2007/10/25 23:41:42 tsiili Added comment from Ko/UVCS. Revision 1.12 2007/10/25 23:30:51 tsiili Added comments from Saba/MDI. Revision 1.11 2007/10/25 23:20:30 tsiili Added Suguru Kamio's comment on TRACE support of HOP003. Revision 1.10 2007/10/25 23:14:11 tsiili Updated EUNIS rocket launch information. Revision 1.9 2007/10/25 22:20:57 tsiili Added comments from LASCO/Schenk. Revision 1.8 2007/10/25 22:09:12 tsiili Added comments from EIT/Gurman. Revision 1.7 2007/10/25 21:59:57 tsiili Added SUMER comments and started adding EIT comments. Revision 1.6 2007/10/18 22:02:58 tsiili Added Apr 2008 shutterless and the Spr 2008 SUMER campaign to the submode-dependent activities. Deleted the EUNIS backup launch date (Nov 7). Spell-checked the text. Revision 1.5 2007/10/18 21:00:01 tsiili Added instrument/spacecraft tags. Revision 1.4 2007/10/18 19:11:48 tsiili More accurate EUNIS launch time added. Revision 1.3 2007/10/18 18:21:27 tsiili Some formatting. Removed the overly accurate times for the MDI 3-day continuous contact. Reorganized and edited the "Polar Plume and Active Region Morphology Studies" campaign entry. Revision 1.2 2007/10/18 15:12:40 tsiili Some clarifying additions to section 1.a. Revision 1.1.1.1 2007/10/16 21:07:43 tsiili Importing draft for SPWG meeting on 20071026