Planning week 1 - 8 August 2023Hinode was in focused mode at this time, and so I prepared a single 7-day plan spanning 1-8 August. There were 13 active regions on the disk at the start of the week, and there about one or two M-flares going off each day. The default active region target for the week was AR 13390, which was selected by the Max Millenium team. I had instructions to run flare studies as much as possible, and I mixed and matched various studies before switching to the flare hunter study in the middle of the week. The latter uses Flare_sns_v2 as the response. HOP 468 (emerging active regions, with GREGOR) was supported between 7 and 10 UT. The target was AR 13390 (default pointing for plan). HOP 469 (small-scale jets and waves, with GST) was supported between 17 and 20 UT, and the target was AR 13387. In both cases the narrow observing window coupled with the eclipse season meant I could only support for one or two orbits. STEREO was running a high telemetry campaign until 2 August, and the target was AR 13390 (the default AR target), so I didn't run anything specifically for this campaign. AR 13390 ended up producing no C or greater class flares during the observing period. I don't know why the Max Millennium observer selected this region as to my eye it didn't look attractive. AR 13380 produced a flare immediately before we finalized the Hinode plan and this became the MM target for the rest of the week until it rotated off the limb.
Tuesday 1 AugHOP 469 was supported for one orbit with an HPW021 study (18:07 UT). The target is AR 13387. The QUB high telemetry flare study (qub_hi-cad_flare_v3) was run for six consecutive orbits beginning at 20:02 UT. The target is AR 13390. Wednesday 2 AugThe QUB flare study was continued, finishing at 04:54 UT. UPDATE: there was a small flare at 00:14 UT. HOP 468 was supported with an HPW021 study for two orbits beginning at 07:05 UT, and the target is AR 13390. UPDATE: there was a small flare at 09:15 UT. AR 13390 was observed with the high cadence PRY_flare_2 raster for four orbits, beginning at 10:20 UT. The study was run in two groups, each running through orbital night time in order to reduce number of OGs in plan. HOP 469 was supported again for two orbits, beginning at 17:25 UT. Another flare study on AR 13390, this time using PRY_slot_context_v4 for five orbits, beginning at 20:10 UT. Thursday 3 AugThe slot context flare study continued until 03:54 UT. HOP 468 was supported with an HPW021 study for two orbits beginning at 06:14 UT, and the target is AR 13390. AR 13390 was observed again using Cool_loop_response for three orbits, beginning at 10:55 UT. The hope was to catch a flare in the cool lines. HOP469 was supported for one orbit with HPW021 at 17:42 UT. The Hinode co-alignemnt program was supported at the north and east limbs at 20:50 UT and 22:29 UT, respectively. Friday 4 AugThe study Atlas_30 was run on AR 13390 at 00:05 UT. HOP 468 was supported with an HPW021 study for two orbits beginning at 06:49 UT, and the target is AR 13390. For AR 13390 I switched to using the Flare266_Hunter01_v2 study, with Flare_SNS_v2 as the response. Two observations was set at 10:02 UT and 14:46 UT. HOP469 was supported for one orbit with HPW021 at 18:29 UT. Saturday 5 AugHOP 393 was supported at 00:38 UT with Large_CH_Map. There should be an AR at the top of the raster. HOP 468 was supported with an HPW021 study for two orbits beginning at 07:10 UT, and the target is AR 13390. The flare hunter study was run again at 10:26 UT and 13:43 UT. HOP469 was supported for two orbits with HPW021 at 17:22 UT and 18:49 UT. The flare hunter study was run at 20:16 UT. Sunday 6 AugThe flare hunter study was run at 01:11 UT. HOP 468 was supported with an HPW021 study for two orbits beginning at 06:19 UT, and the target is AR 13390. The flare hunter study was run at 11:01 UT. HOP469 was supported for two orbits with HPW021 at 17:47 UT and 19:18 UT. The flare hunter study was run at 20:50 UT for 9.5 hours. Monday 7 AugHOP469 was supported for two orbits with HPW021 at 18:19 UT. Page maintained by Dr Peter R Young. |
