PROBA2 Science Working Team Meeting 14

 

 

The 14th PROBA2 Science Working Team (SWT) meeting was held on Wednesday November 16, 2016 from 13:15 to 14:45 central european time. The meeting was organized during European Space Weather Week 13, in the ‘Mercator’ during the Free Style Lunch break. This year the SWT focussed on Guest Investigator projects using PROBA2. So the meeting included several presentations from past and present guest investigators. The initial announcements and meeting agenda can be found here. 

 

 

Welcome - M.J. West

 

 

PROBA2 Science Center status - M.J. West

• Mission confirmed to the end of 2018, extension through 2020 to be decided early 2017
• PROBA2 data serving into SSCC operations, Space Weather Forecasters, SolarSoft Latest Events...
• 2015 On-Board Software Upgrade Successful
• Major P2SC Software Upgrade Underway
• Introduction to the new Team
• PROBA2 vital statistics
• P2SC software upgrades
• Instrument Health
• PROBA2 Events and Outreach - Collaborations - Special campaigns
• GI Status - 6 Rounds completed, 7th on the way.

• Instrument Health and Performance -nominal, We have ~1.5 million engineering fits files, and ~1.3 million calibrated images (end of October)
• SWAP Reprocessing - Planned for next year.
• Outreach & Science - Annular solar eclipse,
• Upcoming Celestial Event, Annular Solar Eclipse: 2017-Feb-26; Total Solar Eclipse: 2017-Aug-21
• Special campaigns - SWAP campaign for GI’s Slemzin-Rodkin-Goryaev, Goal: observe illumination by back-sided solar flares, High-cadence observations during 2 orbits on 23/09/2016 and 24/09/2016, May be repeated, depending on solar activity.

LYRA status report - I.E. Dammasch

 

 

The Guest Investigator Program status report - M. J. West

 

48 Guest Investigator Teams

55 Guest Investigators have visited ROB

4 to visit

15Countries

9 Mphys / PhD Thesis