Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope

Monthly Operations Report

Status as of January 31, 2024

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 $18.84M in unencumbered funds into FY 2024 from previous years.  A total of $7M in new funding has been obligated by NSF thus far in FY 2024 for a total funding amount of $7M.

• Financial status of 31 Dec 2023

  • DKIST operational expenditures for the current month were $2.03M

  • Total YTD expenditures for DKIST operations are $6.18M.

  • The average DKIST spending for the past 12 months (burn rate; BR) is $2.57M / month.

4. Science Operations (Ali and Andres)

4.1 Status of Observing

4.1.1 Regular Cycle Observing

4.1.2 Solar Orbiter Co-Observing

4.1.3 Parker Solar Probe Co-Observing

4.2 Observing Planning

4.3 Science Operations Training Activities

4.4 Science Operations Specialists

4.5 Cycle Preparation

4.6 Experiment Generation

4.6 Science Operations Management

4.7 Science Operations Tools

4.7.1 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

• Investigated object locking in Ceph. Results of the investigation will inform architectural decisions that pertain to storgae and movement of L0 and L1 data from Locked buckets

7.2 Software Infrastructure

7.2.1 Data Center

• Updated the dkist-header-validator and dkist-fits-specifications applications to allow a more nuanced definition of “requiredness of header keys and updated simulators to account for changes.

• Updated the trial pipeline framework to produce asdf files and inventory data

7.2.2 Portal/Archive/Public

• updated the spatial filter on the portal with new rectangle search parameters.

• update links on the portal to point to updated URLS on the NSO. website

7.3 Science Data Processing

7.3.1 Calibration Pipelines

• Continued working on the cryo pipepeline -

  • modified write-L1 to handle nested slit scans in a single map repeat

  • fixing spectral curvature

  • spectral dispersion flip and scale correction

7.3.1 Data Released

• Since the Manual Processing Worker (MPW) was completed - the DC worked on processing data that could not be processed en-masse because of a peculiarity in the L0 data.

• All of the data that was released this month was older data that was awaiting the completion of the MPW.

• 17 new data sets were created this month

• 49 datasets were made public this month

New Datasets

Datasets Made Public