Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope

Monthly Operations Report

Status as of November 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 $XX.XXM in unencumbered funds into FY 2024 from previous years.  A total of $0M in new funding has been obligated by NSF thus far in FY 2024 for a total funding amount of $YY.YYM.

• Financial status of 31 Oct 2023

  • DKIST operational expenditures for the current month were $Q.QQM

  • Total YTD expenditures for DKIST operations are $VV.VVM.

  • The average DKIST spending for the past 12 months (burn rate; BR) is $A.BBM / month.

4. Science Operations (Ali and Andres)

4.1 Status of Observing

• The fifth observing window (OCP2.5) closed on 03 Nov 2023. No more observing until Spring 2024.

4.1.1 Regular Cycle Observing

4.1.2 Solar Orbiter Co-Observing

• N/A.

4.1.3 Parker Solar Probe Co-Observing

• N/A.

4.2 Observing Planning

• Quarter 2024 Priority Planning meeting discussing observing time March and April 2024.

4.3 Science Operations Training Activities

4.4 Science Operations Specialists

4.5 Cycle Preparation

Preparations for Cycle 3 Call continue specifically planning of which FIDO configuration to offer.

4.6 Experiment Generation

• N/A.

4.7 Science Operations Management

4.8 Science Operations Tools

4.8.1 Management

5 Technical Operations (Heather and Paul)

5.1 Site & Facility Status

5.2 General Site & Facility Repairs, Improvements & Upgrades

5.3 Electrical/Electronics/PLC and Facility Management System

5.3.1  Highlights of Recurring Preventative Maintenance Performed in October

5.3.2 System Repairs & Upgrades

5.4 Mechanical/Thermal

5.4.1 Highlights of Recurring Preventive Maintenance performed in October

5.4.2 System Repairs & Upgrades

5.5 Opto-Mechanical

5.6 Management

5.6.1 Recruitment & Training

5.6.2 Environmental Safety & Health

5.6.3 Observatory Community Service, Broadening Participation 

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

6.1 Optics

6.1.1 System Optics

6.1.2 Facility Instrument Distribution Optics (FIDO)

6.1.3 Polarization Analysis and Calibration (PA&C)

6.2 Summit Instrumentation

6.2.1 Instrument Systems

6.2.2 Wavefront Correction System (WFS)

6.2.3 Visible Spectro-Polarimeter (ViSP)

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

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

6.2.6 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/Public

7.3 Science Data Processing

7.3.1 Calibration Pipelines

7.3.1 Data Released

• There were X new Datasets that were created and YY Datasets were made public

DataSets Released to PIs

Datasets Made Public