Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope

Monthly Operations Report

Status as of February 29, 2024

Table of Contents

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.

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 31 May 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.

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

• Robert Tawa

4.7.1 Management

• Robert Tawa

5 Technical Operations (Paul)

5.1 Technical Operations highlights for June

5.2 Site & Facility Status

5.3 General Site & Facility Repairs, Improvements & Upgrades

• Vestibule Design and Fabrication/Construction solicitation

  • Received quote for Vestibule Steel Fabrication. Followed up with other vendors.

• Reviewed 50% design package for elevator vent redesign

  • Corresponding with M3 on any questions they may have regarding the elevator vent louvers. Need to take more pictures when time and techs are available.

  • Completed Kick-Off meeting with M3 for elevator vent redesign. Sent out the precast sealant and elevator submittals.

• Power outage support/recovery; Restarted Regular, Generator, and UPS, communication, and thermal systems.

• Chiller 02 urgent troubleshooting, leak in system 2 resulted in lost refrigerant charge

  • JCI fixed cracked tee in System 2 discharge line and recharged refrigerant

  • RFQ for service contract, vendor rep visit onsite.

• Chiller 05/06 PM and troubleshooting visit

  • Both chillers wer tuned, topped off, inspected

  • Found a facility flow switch misbehaving

  • Both circuits on CH06 were low, circuit 2 had a leak at the pressure relief valve connection

5.4 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

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

New Datasets

Datasets Made Public