Status Report

SOHO Daily Meeting Minutes for Tuesday, 21 May 2002

By SpaceRef Editor
May 21, 2002
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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* Spring party in the EOF on Friday at 11:30am. Bring some food
to share.

* SPWG is tomorrow at 2pm in the EAF. Please send any calandar
updates to the SOCs today if possible. (This will help us to
have a shorter meeting.)

* NRT for Wednesday morning is from 12-14 UT and 15-15:30 UT.

* RHESSI target for today is AR 9957; target for tomorrow
is AR 9961.

FOT REPORT
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Spacecraft Status: Nominal

Spacecraft Anomalies: None

Accomplished Activities: VIRGO

Planned Activities: VIRGO, SWAN, RSL, New control star, mag = 6.3

Upcoming Operations: None

Ground Anomalies:
141/2355 Received degraded TLM from 2355 to 0447, cause
unknown. Any lost data should be recoverable from
the CDR.

SOLAR STATUS
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05/20 DOY 140 – 05/21 DOY 141

EIT daily On-Line Solar Status and observations:
http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eit/plan/log_form20020521.html

LASCO daily On-Line Solar Status and observations:
http://lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil/observations/2001/Todays_obs.html

Web Page for Planning:
http://www.bbso.njit.edu/arm

INSTRUMENT STATUS
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CDS: Nominal. See report2″ow for today and tomorrow.

SUMER: Nominal. See report below for today and tomorrow.

UVCS: Nominal. Ulysses quadrature and mini-synoptic.
Tomorrow: 24-hour synoptic with repeated scans in the
northeast.

LASCO: Nominal. C2/C3 synoptics, supporting SWAN JOP tomorrow.

EIT: Nominal. Half-resolution 195 CME watch and synoptic.

MDI: Nominal. Full disk magnetograms and dopplergrams for continuous
contact.

TRACE: Nominal. Observing AR9957 in support of RHESSI.

MEDOC Report:
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Announcements:
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1) Welcome to
Brigitte Schmieder and Etienne Pariat from Meudon Observatory,
Taieb Aiouaz from MPAE, Lindau who joined us today.

2) Pic du Midi can support JOP136, 157, 131 and Prominence
Condensation between 8-18 UT.

Results from Monday 21
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JOP136 (CDS): OK
Prominence Condensation (CDS): OK, prominence in the f.o.v
Microscale Heating (CDS): OK

RHESSI + TRACE on AR 9957

Today
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MEDOC overtakes SUMER around 13-14 UT
x position TBC around 990″

SUMER: Line width measurements of coronal ions (x=990″, y=0″)

CDS: 0:00 – 6:30 Synoptic scan
7:30 – 9:30 Particle Beam Study (pointing TBD by POC Jeff
Brosius)
8:30 – 12:30 AR/Flare Diagnoctics (idem by Helen Mason:
AR 9957 ?
13:00 – 18:00 EUV intensities in AR 9957
18:00 – 24:00 JOP136 (AR 9957)

Plans for Wednesday 22
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SUMER: 0:00 – 24:00 Coronal Lines width measurements
(x=990″, y=250″) during ~10 hours
(x=990″, y=500″) during ~14 hours

CDS: 0:00 – 6:30 Synoptic scan
8:00 – 12:30 JOP136 (RHESSI f.o.v) + Nancay support
13:00 – 20:00 Sunspot Oscillation (AR 9957, X=0″, Y=110″)
20:30 – 24:00 EUV Intensities in AR (AR 9957, X=-50″, Y=150″)

SpaceRef staff editor.