DKIST General
The DKIST team along with the VTF team from KIS achieved an important milestone this week; first sunlight for the single-etalon VTF. Thank you to all who have contributed (software, engineering and telescope support) in both Boulder and Maui. Congratulations to all for achieving this important milestone!
The DKIST senior leadership team has been working on an NSF-requested Concept of Operations plan for DKIST. This plan is due December 18, 2024, with a review on Maui scheduled for the week of February 10, 2025.
Operational Status
DKIST is in week 4 of engineering period 2024e.
Personnel
The DKIST team has multiple job postings for positions on Maui.
SciOps and OpsTools team
Accomplishments
Worked on the DKIST Concept of Operations plan.
The Cycle 3 Experiment Generation process officially started on December 02. Ten DKIST scientists are assigned to create, review, and test the experiments for Cycle 3. The plan is to have all the experiments available for summit execution before the end of February 2025.
Release of the SOS Daily Report form (V3) with some improvements to log activities during days in an observing window.
Program scientist and manager working on Conceptual Operations (ConOps) in preparation for the NSF ConOps review in February 2025.
TechOps team
Accomplishments
Worked on the DKIST Concept of Operations plan.
InstOps team
Accomplishments
Worked on the DKIST Concept of Operations plan.
Data Center team
Accomplishments
Worked on the DKIST Concept of Operations plan.
Enhanced automated processing test infrastructure with:
self service stack reset
additional L1 regression test pipeline to conditionally include long running tests based on deployment risk
Began design process for capturing calibration products for trend analysis and as metadata for dataset distribution.
Added out of the box Ceph Metrics and created logic functions to add Ceph metrics to the new Observability Framework
EHS team
Accomplishments
Worked on the DKIST Concept of Operations plan.
Prepared and submitted the bi-monthly DKIST Safety and Health report.