Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope

Monthly Operations Report

Status as of September 30, 2023

Table of Contents

1. Science/Technical Highlight (Anyone)

2. Photos (Anyone)

3. Directorate (Thomas and Dave)

3.1 Activities

3.2 Financial Status

• DKIST operations carried forward approximately $28.16M in unencumbered funds into FY 2023 from previous years.  A total of $X.XXM in new funding has been obligated by NSF thus far in FY 2023 for a total of $YY.YYM.

• Financial status of 31 Aug 2023

  • DKIST operational expenditures for August 2023 were $Z.ZZM

  • Total YTD expenditures for DKIST operations are $XX.XXM.

  • The average DKIST spending for FY 2023 (burn rate; BR) is $Y.YYM/month.

4. Science Operations (Ali and Andres)

4.1 Cycle 2 Experiment Generation

• The Cycle 2 experiment generation process has been completed. Nothing new to report.

4.2 Cycle 2 Observing

• tbd.

4.3 Operations schedule and training activities

• Daily schedule during the OCP2.4 observing window (25 Sep 2023 - 03 Nov 2023):

  • Arrive at DSSC (carpools): 4:45am

  • Leaving DSSC: 5:00am

  • Arriving at site: 6:00am

  • Start Observatory Shutdown: 2:00pm

  • Leaving site: 2:30pm

  • Arrive at DSSC (end of day): 3:30pm

• Science Operations schedules two Science Operations Specialists (SOS), and one Resident Scientist (RS) to support daily science operations at the summit.

5 Technical Operations (Heather and Paul)

5.1 Site & Facility Status

5.2 Site & Facility Repairs, Improvements & Upgrades

5.2.1 Electrical/Electronics

5.2.2 Facility Management System

5.3 Mechanical/Thermal

5.4 Opto-Mechanical

5.5 Issues & Concerns

Environmental Safety & Health

6 Instrumentation Operations (Bret, Friedrich, and Dave H.)

6.1 Optics

6.1.1 Facility Instrument Distribution Optics (FIDO)

6.1.2 Polarization Analysis and Calibration (PA&C)

6.2 Summit Instrumentation

6.2.1 Wavefront Correction System (WFS)

6.2.2 Visible Spectro-Polarimeter (ViSP)

6.2.3 Diffraction Limited Near-Infrared Spectro-Polarimeter (DL-NIRSP)

6.2.4 Cryogenic Near-Infrared Spectro-Polarimeter (Cryo-NIRSP)

6.2.5 Visible Broadband Imager

6.7 Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO)

6.8 High Level Software (HLS)

6.9 Infrared Cameras

7 Data Center Operations (Bob and Alisdair)

7.1 Hardware Infrastructure

7.2 Software Infrastructure

7.2.1 Data Center

7.2.2 Portal/Archive

7.3 Science Data Processing

7.3.1 Calibration Pipelines

7.3.1 Data Released

• There were a total of XX data sets released to their PIs and a total of YY data sets released to the public this month.

DataSets Released to PIs

Datasets Made Public