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1. Science/Technical Highlight (Anyone)

2. Photos (Anyone)

3. Directorate (Dave)

3.1 Activities

• For the month of June, DKIST continued weeks 2-6 of OCP2.7 science observing.

• The DKIST Directorate prepared for and presented to the NSF’s 2-year extension proposal review held June 4-6, 2024.

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3.2 Financial Status

• DKIST operations carried forward approximately $13.82M in unencumbered funds into FY 2024 from previous years.  A total of $14.00M in new funding has been obligated by NSF thus far in FY 2024.

• Financial status of May 31, 2024

  • DKIST operational expenditures for the current month were $2.47M

  • Total YTD expenditures for DKIST operations are $17.64M.

  • Total outstanding encumbrances are $10.61M.

  • The average DKIST spending for the past 12 months (burn rate; BR) is $2.51M / month.

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4. Science Operations (Ali and Andres)

4.1 Status of Observing

4.1.1 Regular Cycle Observing

4.1.2 Solar Orbiter Co-Observing

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4.1.3 Parker Solar Probe Co-Observing

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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

• Completed the beta version of the new Experiment architect and released it for testing by the science users.

• began working on the EA templating - gathering requirements and gaining an understanding of how the scientists buid experimenets and were the time reduction can be easily made.

• Removed the calls to from Ops tools related to the “proposal completion” message, which had been stripped from the ICD previously

• Completed a backend update to Docker v25.0.3

4.7.1 Management

• Provided Operational support to the science team related to proposal call cycle.

• Prepared and delivered slides for the NSF review relating to the work that the OT software team did and was currently doing in supprot of science Ops.

5 Technical Operations (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)

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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)

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6.8 High Level Software (HLS)

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6.9 Infrared Cameras

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7 Data Center Operations (Bob and Alisdair)

7.1 Hardware Infrastructure

• implemented an upgrade to the Asgaard and Dev stack to the Pacific version in preparation/test for deployment to the production stack

7.2 Software Infrastructure

7.2.1 Data Center

• Prepared for and presneed the Data Center status to the NSF review panel

• Updated the DHS-DC Interface Control Document to address the need for packaging small files into .tar files for faster and more efficient transfer of data from the summit to the data center

• updated the Dkist processing stack and REST APIs to Pydantic 2

• Scaled airflow out to 256 workers

• Installed a new metrics stack - including storage and collection of metrics relating to the infrastructure.

7.2.2 Portal/Archive/Public

• Created a list of actionable improvements to the portal from user feedback and began implementing them

• Made searches based on Proposal ID and Experiment case insensitive

7.3 Science Data Processing

7.3.1 Calibration Pipelines

• VBI

  • investigated the failure of the VBI pipeline related to the receipt and attempted processing of VBI mosaic pattern with a mosaic pattern that was not N x N (5 mosaic locations). this mode of VBI operation had not been encountered previously

• Cryo-NIRSP

  • Redesigned and implemented the Processing Preparation Worker to include Cryo-NIRSP

  • Refactored the solar gain task to preform fringe correction based on a parameter

• DL NIRSP

  • Generated integration tests for the DL-NIRSP Pipeline in preparation for he beta version release

  • Updated the current pipeline to reflect the use of the MISI in the newest data

7.3.1 Data Released

46 new Datasets were created this month and 40 were made pulic

New Datasets

Datasets Made Public