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. Observing scheduled to continue in 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

• All Cycle 2 Experiments need to be revised for observing in 2024 to support a new standard observing script allowing for more flexibility and functionality, DL-NIRSP changes due to the image slicer upgrade, and other instrument specific parameters in need of adjustment. The planning of that effort and the details thereof have started. This will be a phased effort prioritizing all Cryo-NIRSP experiments and those experiments that are compliant with the FIDO configuration selected for OCP2.6.

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