POLAR Telecon Agenda for
Agenda:
0. Upcoming Polar Telecon
1. Operations:
2. Senior Review
3. Senior Review Proposal
0. Upcoming Polar
Telecons
4 pm ET, 3 pm CT, 2 pm MT, 1 pm PT
PIs and their designated
representatives will be telephoned at their usual numbers.
Other participants may call
in at: 1-888-810-3139, password POLAR TELECON
(Leader: John Sigwarth)
The web site for the final
agenda will be:
http://pwg.gsfc.nasa.gov/polar/telecons/2005Jul15/
Future Polar Telecons
Future Telecon Science
Discussion Schedule
[Errors/omissions/preferences
to: nicola.fox@jhuapl.edu
Aug 2005: MFE
Sept 2005: CEPPAD
Oct 2005: TIDE
Nov 2005: PIXIE
Jan 2005: SEPS
Feb 2005: UVI
Mar 2005: MDI
Apr 2006: CAMMICE
May 2006:
June 2006: EFI
July 2006: Hydra
1. Operations
If you have any concerns
about Polar operations, please contact Nicky Fox (nicola.fox@jhuapl.edu)
Sun Angle Maneuver
The next Polar maneuver is
tentatively scheduled for
GTM Upsets
No GTM upsets this month
Polar Tape Recorder Servo
Errors
The remaining Polar tape
recorder (DTR1) has been experiencing servo errors. These servo errors
occur on approximately 25% of the playbacks and are always at the start of the
playback. It should be emphasized that no data has been lost from Polar
due to the servo errors. The DTR1 switch
to the secondary encoder unit occurred on Thursday at 190101 UTC. The FOT
observed the tape recorder servo telemetry in real-time with increased
vigilance for about 40 minutes after the switch and data were nominal with no
errors. It will take the next 2 weeks to
determine if the switch of the encoders has eliminated the servo errors.
2. Senior Review
NASA HQ has announced that a
Senior Review will be held for operating missions, including Polar, in the sun
solar system connection program. The Senior Review will be held the week
of November 14 with the proposals due the first week in October. The
first draft of the call for proposals for the Senior Review has been released
and copies of the call for proposals and proposal directions were sent to the
Polar team. The Polar Senior Review Proposal will need to address the key
issues identified in the strategic roadmap process and how the current and
planned observations by Polar have strategic value within this context. In addition, availability of high resolution
data will be factored into the ranking of the proposals.
Polar operations and data
analysis after the Senior Review will be contingent on the results of the review.
The results of the Senior Review should be known early in the calendar year
2006.
3. The 2006 Senior Review Proposal
The PI teams should have
received a copy of the second draft of the science section from the proposal
for comment.
WE ARE MAKING EVERY EFFORT TO STAY ON SCHEDULE TO
ENSURE THAT WE CAN DELIVER THE HIGHEST QUALITY PRODUCT SO PLEASE RESPOND TO
REQUESTS FOR INPUT IN A TIMELY FASHION.
Science Sections:
Everyone needs to review the
future science sections and send comments to the team members listed below. So
far, very little input has been received from the teams – we need your feedback
and edits urgently for the third draft. A number of team members have been
identified to review the science sections and they are listed below.
2.1 Polar radiation belt
science in the 2005-2006 interval: A return to the heart of the outer zone.
Lead authors: Paul O’Brien & Bern Blake (JBernard.Blake@aero.org
& Paul.OBrien@aero.org)
Reviewers: Reiner Friedel;
Martin Walt
2.2 Microscale and macroscale
physics of magnetic reconnection. Lead author: Karlheinz Trattner (karlheinz.j.trattner.dr@lmco.com)
Reviewers: Ted Fritz; Bill
Peterson; Jack Scudder
2.3 Auroral acceleration
region. Lead author: Chris Russell (ctrussell@igpp.ucla.edu)
Reviewers: Nelson Maynard;
George Parks; Rob Pfaff
Accomplishments section:
This section is badly in need
of work. At the moment it is composed mainly of material from the 2003 Senior
Review proposal, with additions from a handful of teams. You must take time to
add your team’s more recent achievements to this section. Please try to add
text directly into the document (switch on track changes or at least insert
text in red) failing that, you may send paragraphs containing your team’s
achievements to Nicky (nicola.fox@jhuapl.edu).
We would also like to include
information on how many other people use Polar data – how many SR&T,
TR&T and GI grants use Polar data. Please also send that information to
Nicky
Section 3: Technical and Budget
Draft 3 will contain a
technical and budget section as well as the Science material. This will include
a sub-section about the health of the instruments. Each team must submit a
paragraph concerning their instrument. A sample paragraph pulled from the 2003
proposal is included for reference.
Hydra Status: The Hydra instrument continues to function well, with
all sensors operational and all systems functioning, including the commercial
burst mode memory. The inter-detector gains of the DDEIS are changing with time
in an expected way with the large number of total counts these detectors have
registered. The relative balancing on these detectors is accomplished by
software on the ground. The absolute calibration is assisted by comparison with
the ion estimates of density and intercomparison with solar wind monitors when
we occasionally encounter the solar wind. The PPA sensor articulated for high
resolution samples of electrons along the magnetic field direction continues to
work well and is cross calibrated with the DDEIS.
Polar Senior Review
Development Schedule:
May 6: Polar PI telecon
May 6-May 13: Skeleton Draft
May 13-20: writing assignments, formation of Red
Team
May 23-27: AGU meeting in
June 1-24: Draft 1 (circulated 23rd),
Polar PI Telecon 24th)
June 27-July 1: GEM meeting in
July 5-11: Draft 2 (circulated 11th,
Polar PI Telecon 15th)
July 15-August 5: Draft 3 (circulated August 1st, Polar PI Telecon 5th)
July18-29: IAGA meeting in
August 6-14: Draft 4
August 15: Draft 4 sent to Red Team
August 22-23: Red Team
Review
August 25: Polar PI Telecon
August 26-September 5:
Draft 5 (circulated 5th)
September 12-19: Draft 6 to PI team for last review/editing, Polar telecon (16th)
September 20-26: final formatting, proofing
September 27-30: Printing and delivery
