In this section we will discuss the status of each instrument and any limitation to configurations that occurred during the period.
The following image quality statistics were taken from the statistics recorded for science operations in the night report.
For comparison here is the image quality for the same period of 2002
Here are the DIMM values reported in the night report. NOTE: There are a large number of nights when the DIMM was not operated; there is also times when the DIMM failed due to wind shake or extremely bad seeing.
Month by Month Summary
The following table gives the observing statistics for each month. The second column gives the fraction of the month that was spent attempting science (as opposed to engineering or instrument commissioning). Science time is defined to begin at 18 degree twilight or the first science target. Science time is defined to end at 18 degree twilight or the last science target. The fourth column gives the fraction of the possible science time (A) lost due to weather. The fifth through seventh columns give the amount of remaining science time (after removing weather losses) not spent attempting science targets. Please note that the first stack of the night often occurs before 18 degree twilight.
Month | A:Fraction of the Time that was Possible Science | B:Average Night Length | C:Fraction of Total Science Time Lost due to Weather | D:Fraction of Actual Science Time Lost due to Alignment | E:Fraction of Actual Science Time Lost due to Calibrations | F:Fraction of Actual Science Time Lost due to Problems |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
December | 0.625 | 10.94 | 0.43 | 0.06 | 0.06 | 0.06 |
January | 0.920 | 10.77 | 0.27 | 0.12 | 0.06 | 0.07 |
February | 0.777 | 10.19 | 0.47 | 0.14 | 0.08 | 0.04 |
March | 0.877 | 9.33 | 0.40 | 0.08 | 0.07 | 0.11 |
Details on Nightly cloud cover based on the TO's observations of the sky reported 3 times a night in the night report.:
Month | Fraction of the Nights that were Clear | Fraction of the Nights that were Mostly Clear | Fraction of the Nights that were Partly Cloudy | Fraction of the Nights that were Mostly Cloudy | Fraction of the Nights that were Cloudy |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
December | 0.23 | 0.19 | 0.26 | 0.10 | 0.19 |
January | 0.64 | 0.10 | 0.03 | 0.13 | 0.10 |
February | 0.29 | 0.11 | 0.11 | 0.18 | 0.32 |
March | 0.32 | 0.16 | 0.19 | 0.10 | 0.23 |
Please note that the HET could be closed due to humidity, smoke or high dust count and still have a "Clear" statistic in the night report.
The total number of 1421 acceptable shutter open science exposures during this period for a total of 168.0 hours. There were a number of rejected spectra obtained during this period as well the following table give the total number of rejected spectra and the category that each falls into.
Number of Times | Time Lost (Hours) | Type |
---|---|---|
17 | 4.0 | E - Rejected by RA for Equipment Failure |
12 | 1.3 | H - Rejected by RA for Human failure |
69 | 12.8 | W - Rejected by RA for Weather |
6 | 0.9 | P - Rejected by PI and confirmed by RA |
1 | 0.2 | Q - Rejected due to error in the queue |
1 | 0.2 | C - Acceptable by RA but PI rejects |
14 | 2.8 | N - Acceptable but NOT charged due to weather or hole in queue |
66 | 11.8 | B - Acceptable but Border line conditions |
So this is a total of 19.4 hours of rejected spectra with an additional possible 11.8 hours of spectra that may be rejected.
The following overhead statistics include slew, setup, readout and refocus between exposures (if there are multiple exposures per visit). In the summary page for each program the average setup time is calculated. The table below gives the average setup time for each instrument PER VISIT and the average and maximum COMPLETED science exposures and visits.
The "Exposure" is defined by when the CCD opens and closes. A "Visit" is the requested total CCD shutter open time during a track and might be made up of several "Exposures". "Visit" as defined here contains no overhead. To calculate one type of observing efficiency metric one might divide the "Visit" by the sum of "Visit" + "Overhead".
Instrument | Avg Overhead (min) | Median Overhead (min) | Avg Exposure (sec) | Median Exposure (sec) | Max Exposure (sec) | Avg Visit (sec) | Median Visit (sec) | Max Visit (sec) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
LRS | 16.98 | 16.0 | 709.2 | 600 | 1500 | 1261.6 | 900 | 4100 |
HRS | 12.78 | 12.93 | 949.4 | 980 | 1800 | 1259.8 | 1200 | 4320 |
The overhead statistics can be shortened by multiple setups (each one counted as a separate visit) while on the same target as is the case for planet search programs. The overhead statistics can be lengthened by having multiple tracks that add up to a single htopx visit as can happen for very long tracks where each attempt might only yield a half visit.
The following links give the summary for each institution and its programs.
The resulting table will give (for each program) the total number of targets
in the queue and the number completed, the CCD shutter open
hours, average overhead for that program, and the TAC allocated time.
This usually will be the best
metric for judging completeness but there are times when a PI will tell
us that a target is "done" before the total number of visits is complete.
Only one program was significantly under observed UT03-1-006 (allocated
priority 2 time) which required 21 dark time photometric visits to a single
target.
Two programs were significantly under observed PSU03-1-006 and PSU03-1-013.
PSU03-1-006 was allocated
priority 2 time but required EE50<2.0 grey time visits. One of the
two targets for PSU03-1-006 conflicted with UT highest priority target.
PSU03-1-013 was allocated priority 1 time but EE50<1.8 dark G3 time visits.
All programs successfully completed.
We failed to complete with Munich target although spectra were obtained for
their programs.
We continue to obtain data for G02-3-004 into the next period.
The following is a summary of the Acceptable CCD shutter time for each
institution based on our htopx data base. It does not include any
overhead.
Observing Programs Status
Program comments:
UT02-3-003: (Shields) Carried over from last period.
UT02-3-012: (Endl) Carried over from last period.
UT03-1-002: (Shetrone) Program complete
UT03-1-003: (Barnes) all submitted targets complete
UT03-1-009: (Hill) only priority 4 time left
UT03-1-010: (Tufts) program completed but TAC extended time
UT03-1-011: (Kannappan) only priority 3 time left
UT03-1-012: (Endl) Phase II not received.
UT03-1-013: (Drory) only priority 3 time left
UT03-1-014: (Wheeler) all submitted targets complete
UT03-1-016: (Lambert) Program complete
Program comments:
PSU02-3-050: (Ge) Carried over from last period.
PSU02-3-052: (Richards) Carried over from last period.
PSU03-1-001: (Eracleous) Phase II not received.
PSU03-1-002: (Schneider) Phase II not received.
PSU03-1-003: (Brandt) All submitted targets complete
PSU03-1-004: (Schneider) Phase II not received.
PSU03-1-010: (Stark) All submitted targets complete
PSU03-1-013: (Palma) G3 MOS with 1.8" IQ constraint
PSU03-1-014: (Eracleous) All submitted targets completed
PSU03-1-015: (Ramsey) Phase II not received.
Program comments:
Program comments:
MUN02-3-001: (Botzler) carried over from last period, 2 MOS targets into evening twilight
MUN03-1-001: (Botzler) G3 MOS targets
Program comments:
There are no new programs in this period.
G02-3-001: (Kollatschny) Synoptic target carried over from last period
G02-3-004: (Hessman) Synoptic target carried over from last period
Institution Status
Time Usage by Institution (hours) | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
-TOTAL- | Used | % of All | ||
PSU | 39.977 | 20.4 | ||
UT | 125.057 | 63.8 | ||
Stanford | 16.833 | 8.6 | ||
Munich | 6.729 | 3.4 | ||
Goetting | 7.500 | 3.8 | ||
NOAO | 36.830 | -- | ||
SALT | 0.000 | -- | ||
DDT | 0.000 | -- |
This is how each institution has allocated its time by priority.
Time Allocation by Institution (hours) | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Institution | Priority 0 | Priority 1 | Priority 2 | Priority 3 | Priority 4 |
PSU | 11.500 (10%) | 25.200 (23%) | 37.700 (34%) | 36.500 (33%) | 0.000 |
UT | 15.500 (6%) | 52.900 (21%) | 61.400 (25%) | 59.600 (24%) | 60.000 (24%) |
Stanford | 0.000 | 5.000 (26%) | 4.500 (23%) | 5.000 (26%) | 5.000(26%) |
Munich | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Goetting | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
NOAO | 10.000 (6%) | 83.700 (52%) | 62.600 (37%) | 6.000(4%) | 0.000 |
SALT | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
DDT | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 |