HET End-Trimester Report
Second Period of 2017
April 1 - July 31

This report is composed of five sections:
Facility Status

In this section we will discuss the status of the HET facility and each instrument and any limitation to configurations that occurred during the period.


Observing Statistics

The following tables give a break down of all attempted visits as well as the category that each falls into.

Charged exposures
Number of TimesShutter Open (Hours)Type
1220138.50 A - Acceptable
28 9.68 B - Acceptable but Border line conditions
14940.48 4 - Priority 4 visits (does not include 1/2 charge)
00.0 Q - charged but PI error
00.0 C - Acceptable by RA but PI rejects

Uncharged exposures caught by RA
Number of TimesShutter Open (Hours)Type
20.78 N - Rejected due to unknown cause
22 7.43 E - Rejected for Equipment Failure
6417.88 W - Rejected for Weather
18 4.80 H - Rejected for Human failure

Uncharged exposures caught by PI
Number of TimesShutter Open (Hours)Type
0 0.0 P - Rejected for weather
0 0.0 F - Rejected for Equipment Failure
304.42 T - Rejected for poor track choice
00.0 X - Rejected for Human failure

Acceptable but Uncharged exposures
Number of TimesShutter Open (Hours)Type
3 0.8 I - Targets observed under otherwise idle conditions

So this is a total of 36.95 hours of uncharged spectra with an additional possible 17.8 hours of spectra that may be rejected.

The following overhead statistics include slew, setup, and readout. The table below gives the average setup time for each instrument PER ACTUAL 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".

The average overhead per actual visit is the overhead for each acceptable priority 0-3 (not borderline) science target. This number reflects how quickly we can move from object to object on average for each instrument, however, this statistic tends to weight the overhead for programs with large number of targets.

The average overhead per requested visit is the total charged overhead per requested priority 0-3 visit averaged per program. To get this value we average take the total charged overhead and divide by the total number of completed 0-3 visits. The average overhead per visit can be inflated by extra overhead charged for PI mistakes (such as bad finding charts or no targets found at sky detection limits) or for incomplete visits e.g. 2 visits of 1800s are done instead of 1 visit with a CRsplit of 2.

Instrument Avg Overhead per Actual Visit(min)Avg Overhead per Requested Visit(min) Avg Completed Exposure (sec)Max Completed Exposure (sec)Avg Completed Visit (sec)Max Completed Visit (sec)
LRS2 5.77.9 651.82520 1066.57200
VIRUS N/A10.9 360.0 360 10801080

The overhead statistics can be shortened by multiple setups (each one counted as a separate visit) while on the same target such as moving from LRS2-B to LRS2-R. 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.


Observing Programs Status

InstitutionTotal OpenTotal OHTotal ChargedTotal TACTotal %Req VisitsCompl VisitsTotal TargetsCompleted TargetsProgram CompletionP0 CompletionP1 CompletionP2 CompletionP3 Completion
G17-2-0010.840.481.321.32100.00%3333100%100.00%100.00%100.00%
G17-2-0020.670.181.181.6671.08%4242 71%100.00%
M17-2-0013.741.785.52 8.4065.71%402113666%100.00%100.00%0.00%84.29%
M17-2-0024.001.755.755.40106.48%21211515100%100%100%100%100%
PSU17-2-0010.000.000.0010.00 0.00%00000%
PSU17-2-0026.6914.9324.0830.0080.27%27824056452680%100.00%100.00%100.00%
PSU17-2-0039.252.0811.3313.8082.10%3324211882%100%91.33%
PSU17-2-0040.400.480.88 3.5025.14%4444100%100%100.00%
UT17-2-0018.172.5510.7213.579.41%16161616100%100.00%100.00%
UT17-2-0026.832.579.4031.5116.85%2726232296%93.75%100.00%
UT17-2-00314.001.1915.1913.00116.85%7744100%100%100%
UT17-2-0046.672.78 9.4526.0036.35%4840484083%83.33%
UT17-2-00510.001.4311.4313.5 84.67%976585%84.67%
UT17-2-0065.441.386.826.00113.67%9922100%100.00%100%
UT17-2-00713.01.9717.4719.0 91.95%2718292092%100%100.00%
UT17-2-0087.001.6216.2916.00101.81%53482018100%100%
ENG17-2-666 18.308.4326.7330.0089.10%6661666192% 92.42%


  • UT17-2 Program comments:
      UT17-2-001: (Wheeler)
      UT17-2-002: (Wheeler) TOO
      UT17-2-003: (Larson)
      UT17-2-004: (Gebhardt)
      UT17-2-005: (Hung)
      UT17-2-006: (Froning)
      UT17-2-007: (Hill)
      UT17-2-008: (Shetrone)


  • PSU17-2 Program comments:
      PSU17-2-001: (Ciardullo) no targets ever submitted
      PSU17-2-002: (Mahadevan)
      PSU17-2-003: (Ninan)
      PSU17-2-004: (Wright) TOO


  • M17-2 Program comments:
      M17-2-001: (Kluge)
      M17-2-002: (Kluge)


  • G17-2 Program comments:
      G17-2-001: (Kollatschny)
      G17-2-002: (Kollatschny)

    Program Completion Rates
    Priority Average Completion Median Completion
    P0 97.2% 100.0%
    P1 98.1% 100.0%
    P2 90.1% 100.0%
    P3 96.4% 100.0%

    Institution Status

    This is how each institution has allocated its time by priority.

    Time Allocation by Institution (hours)
    Institution Priority 0 Priority 1 Priority 2Priority 3 Priority 4
    PSU 1.500 14.000 19.000 12.800 10.000
    UT 10.500 30.000 40.000 32.000 26.000
    Munich 2.300 2.300 4.600 4.600 0.000
    Goetting 0.000 0.440 1.273 0.440 0.000

    The following is a summary of the total charged time for each institution based on our htopx data base (for shutter open) and night reports (for overhead). It includes shutter open time (weighting priority four by half) and overhead.

    As requested by the board the time accounting has started over starting Fiscal year 2011-2012.

    Time Charged by Institution (hours)
    -INST- Used THIS PERIOD % of All THIS PERIOD -TOTAL TO DATE- -% TO DATE- - % ALLOCATION TO DATE-
    PSU 36.29 24.7 1041.5129.722.88%
    UT 96.77 65.9 2137.0061.067.59%
    Munich 11.27 7.7 155.124.45.20%
    Goettingen 2.50 1.7 170.534.94.32%


    Total to Date starting from the 11-2 period.


    TAC Response