EOF/MEDOC SOHO Daily Meeting Minutes June 2, 1997 Chairs: G. Simnett (SOL/EOF), Jean-Claude Vial (MEDOC) Notes : Jean-Claude Vial, B. Cougrand (MEDOC), J. Saba/MDI (EOF) ANNOUNCEMENTS: ------------- - CELIAS-CTOF team has requested FOT commanding from 1500-1530 UT. - SOC/FOT need to know 3 hours in advance if an instrument team needs Receiver 1 sweep for commanding. - Reminder: There will be a leap second between 30 June and 01 July. FOT Briefing ------------ S/C status is nominal with exception of Receiver #1 Anomaly Summary: 151/2115 - COBS Single DMA Failure Accomplished Activities: 150 - RSL, VIRGO, VC2 time tagged commands, Sweep Receiver #1 151 - RSL, VIRGO, VC2 time tagged commands, CELIAS CTOF testing, Sweep Receiver #1 152 - RSL, VIRGO, VC2 time tagged commands, Memory Dumps, TR Maint Planned Activities: RSL, VIRGO, CELIAS CTOF commanding, VC2 time tagged commands Ground System Anomaly Summary: 150/1524 -- TM Dropout, Power Failure at D61 (25 minutes, unrecoverable) 150/1730 -- Degraded TM, Low SNR at D16 (D61 covered, no loss) 150/2032 -- TC Block Sequence Errors at D27 (18 minute NRT pause) 150/2050 -- Problems sweeping receiver #1 (commanding delayed 61 minutes) 151/1507 -- Transmitter turned off unexpectedly at D24 (7 minute delay) 151/2157 -- TM Dropout, JPL/GSFC interface problem (30 sec, recoverable) 152/0115 -- Backup POCC String Crashed 152/0753 -- TM Dropout, line hit at JPL (15 seconds, recoverable) 152/1345 -- Prime POCC String Crashed 152/1514 -- Transmitter turned off unexpectedly at D24 (8 minute delay) 153/0434 -- TM Dropout; JPL equipment problem (1 minute recoverable) 153/0500 -- Degraded TM; D42 equipment problems (28 minutes, unrecoverable; 18 minutes recoverable) STATUS OF SUN & GBOs: ----------------- Several DBs of N32, W55-90 Filament (31 May between 1 and 14:50 UT) NOAA prediction of low activity except for AR 8048 (S29 E) - On Sat, 31 May, EIT has a beautiful 304-A image at 1318 UT of a prominence eruption on the west limb. LASCO saw a slow CME from this event once they were back on the W. limb, then saw a "sympathetic" CME on the east limb, closer to the equator. - EIT saw an apparent "zipper event" in 195A from about 0230-0500 UT. The polar crown filament from central meridian to the SE showed rapid motion and flows, with apparent interaction with loops from the AR in the SE (NOAA AR 8048). - LASCO C1 from 1230 UT today shows large loops above the NE, NW, SE, and SW limbs, like four "ears", with gaps in the equatorial region. C2 shows a couple of bright streamers on the west, and a rather diffuse equatorial brightening on the E. limb. - The MDI full-disk magnetogram shows lots of concentrated flux in AR 8048. GBOs: ---- - There has been no news yet from the Lockheed Martin solar physics group currently at La Palma, who are observing at the Swedish Vacuum Tower Telescope for the first half of June. They plan high-cadence, high-resolution observations of small scale magnetic elements in a 1 arcmin square FOV. The best seeing periods are typically 0900-1200 UT. Very good observations today for: - THEMIS (Halpha profiles with IPM-Italian filter) : JOP12/17 - and Pic du Midi CDS, SUMER and EIT: nominal INSTRUMENT PLANS FOR JUNE 3: ---------------------------- CDS 0:00 - 6:00 : Synoptic meridian image 6:30 - 8:10 : JOP 17 (S43, W64) with SUMER 8:10 - 10:00 : FOV1 Filament channel (N25, W17) with EIT 10:00 - 12:00 : FOV2 Filament channel (N25, W17) 12:00 - 16:00 : JOP 33: Active Region study (S29 E8) 16:00 - 19:00 : Filament Study/ with VLA (395, 112) 19:30 - 23:30 : Stray-Light study EIT Supports JOP 17 (304) and VLA (195) SUMER 0:00 - 6:30 : High Velocity Events 6:30 - 9:00 : JOP 17 (S43, W64) 9:00- 12:00: JOP 12 Prominence Study (742, -602) (S35, W) 13:00- 16:00: Spectral Atlas of Active Region SW 16:00- 24:00: Off limb High Velocity Events UVCS, LASCO, and MDI: nominal UVCS: In addition to usual synoptic program, today will make polar scans at N. pole from 1.5 to 1.8 R_Sun. Tomorrow: will make scans at 1.5, 2.0, 2.3 R_Sun. LASCO: In addition to synoptic program, will take high-cadence (@20 mins) C2 images in the equatorial band through at least Thursday. In this mode, they have been seeing lots of interesting behavior, such as streamer twisting. MDI: Continues continuous dynamics program of full-disk dopplergrams and intensity filtergrams every minute, with 96-minute cadence full-disk magnetograms.