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

• Completed Terraform scripts that will create new AWS Virtual Private Clouds (VPC)s for the production and development stacks of the Ops tools. Currently the Prod and Dev stacks are located within the same VPC, which is an unwanted situation as they share resources, queues, and security tools. The new Terrraform script will be tested and hopefully deployed in December.

• With the hiring of a new Software Engineer, began the migration of the Experiment Architect from VUE 2 to React. VUE 2 is nearing en of life and the migretion is required to keep the product on a well surprted platform.

• Completed the second round of updates to the OT-OCS Interface Control Document (ICD) - The ICD was updated in significant ways as we learned from implementing and using the ICD during the OCP 1 and 2 Observing periods. The ICD change was major in that is modified, deleted, and added a number of messages in order to more efficiently transfer data and to add functionality that was not previously possible.

• Completed the Beta version of the OPMT migration to React, which include an extensive redesign of the user interface. The changes are now in user review.

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

• The Vibrometer was used with the GOS lamp November 21st collecting several types of jitter data at the ViSP slit plane focus. Many narrow, repeatable frequencies are present in the data. Impulse response of various mirrors is a work in progress, with several examples showing very clear and repeatable frequency “fingerprints”. This will be useful in upcoming vibration mitigation efforts.
  
  Image jitter of the DKIST beam path from the GOS lamp to the ViSP slit plane recorded over 10 minutes with minimal activity and most systems parked / off. Many narrow and repeatable frequencies are present in the DKIST beam:

  

  • Impulse response of the DKIST beam path at the ViSP slit plane when tapping the back of the M8 glass substrate:

  

• Impulse response of the DKIST beam path at the ViSP slit plane when tapping the VBI-Blue optical bench:

  

6.1.2 Facility Instrument Distribution Optics (FIDO)

• The GS50T950 was unpacked on the summit, shock load data analyzed, and the optic placed in the coude lab clean room, ready for use.
  

  

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

• Continued integrating Buys #4 and #5 hardware into the Data Center. The equipment has been racked and stacked, and is awaiting the installation and configuration of switches by CU personnel in order to be integrated and functioning in the DC.

7.2 Software Infrastructure

7.2.1 Data Center

• As a precursor to updating the Quality Reporting Framework, the quality data was moved from the Postgres DB to another DB as the volume of quality data wa on the verge of causing latency issues with the rest of the data in the search support DB.

• Began working on the design of the Quality reporting framework. The updated framework is meant to make the quality data machine readable, extensible, and usable in the context of scientific data trend identification and dashboarding of Quality data such that history of quality data may be graphically displayed

7.2.2 Portal/Archive/Public

• Updated the Portal to include an alerting function such that breaking news relating to the Data Center, the Data, or the Portal may be displayed to users when such alerts are warranted.

7.3 Science Data Processing

7.3.1 Calibration Pipelines

• Completed the 1st iteration of the DL-NIRSP pipeline and delivered it to the DL-NIRSP science team. It is expected to stay static until the new DL-NIRSP hardware is installed on the summit and new data is taken during the DL-NIRSP verification activities on the summit.

• Updated and refactored VISP pipleplie code to account for and implement the lessons learned during the Cryo NIRSP pipeline development.

• Continued working with the Cryo -NIRSP science team in the Cryo-NIRSP pipeline acceptance. The DC has updated the pipeline based on reviews of the data by the science team, and continues to update and rerun data through the pipeline as improvements are implemented.

• Began working (design and implementation) on the Manual Processing Worker (MPW) - which is the tool that will allow the DC to Calibrate data sets that have one-off issues that cause them to fail when running normally through the pipeline. There are a handful of VISP data sets in the backlog that will need the MPW in order to get processed

7.3.1 Data Released

• There were 9 new Datasets that were created and 12 Datasets that were made public

DataSets Released to PIs

Datasets Made Public