TRACE Co-I & Associates Meeting
October 20-22, 1998
As many of you know, we're planning a short TRACE science meeting at Goddard Space Flight Center. The meeting combines four purposes:
1) Collect and distribute all the little things some of us know but all of us would like to know about the instrument, such as offsets between wavelengths, pointing accuracy, detector aging, flat fielding, etc. 2) Serve as a soft deadline for the AGU meeting, enable us to see what others are doing, avoid overlap, stimulate complementarity, spawn new collaborations, etc. 3) Make each other aware of the most interesting, spectacular, odd phenomena we've seen during our data analyses or planning duties. 4) Look ahead towards future TRACE operations and science analysis and publication.
I would hope that the format is such that it will stimulate discussions, trigger questions, and allow us to share expertise.
We hope you'll be able to attend this meeting. Please let us know asap whether you will or will not be able to attend, in order to make sure we all have coffee. There is no formal organization for accommodation, badging, etc., as this is a small meeting that is only a precursor to the ``real'' meetings at the AGU, SPD, and a real TRACE meeting of which the details are to be discussed during the October meeting.
Although originally a period of four days was reserved for this meeting, input from several of you made it clear that 2 1/2 days would be easier to schedule in our busy lives. A period from Tuesday to Thursday then seems easiest with minimal impact in weekend private lives. Hence the following suggestions for dates and contents. Please look it over and send your comments, suggestions, etc. to me at schryver@lmsal.com.
The scheduled ``talks'' are topical: in a number of cases multiple studies that I know of address similar themes. So when there are several names behind a topic, this generally means either that I don't know who is most likely to speak on the topic, or that multiple studies exist. In the latter case, the time (and the entire schedule is really flexible) would be shared between speakers, which is why some topics have been given more time than others (although I'm sure things will need changing).
Karel Schrijver
Karel Schrijver
Stanford-Lockheed Institute for Space Research Phone: (650) 424-2907
Org. H1-12, Bldg. 252, 3251 Hanover Street Fax: (650) 424-3994
Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA email: schryver@lmsal.com
Editor's note: the multiple spellings of "Shrijver" in this document
appear to originate from Karel himself, I believe for his entertainment.
I have left them as they are. - bjt
Contact Information
Tuesday 20 - Thursday 22 October 1998
at Goddard Space Flight Center
Local contacts: Barbara Thompson barbara.thompson@gsfc.nasa.gov
301-286-3405
Craig DeForest zowie@urania.nascom.nasa.gov
301-286-3251
Palo Alto: Karel Schrijver schryver@lmsal.com
We will have available:
overhead projectors (2)
workstation with internet access
videoprojector, can project from workstation and laptops
videoplayer compatible with S-VHS (currently it's BYO,
we can arrange to have one there on request)
VHS video player, beta available on request
Note: You must have a badge to enter Goddard Space Flight Center. If you
have not requested a badge, please contact Barbara Thompson to arrange
one. Badges generally take more than a day to process.
The list of possible attendees is based on the Co-Investigator
team and those immediately working with them. But if you know of others
who are interested in attending, they're welcome to join. We should try
to keep the number of attendees fairly low, though, to stimulate discussions.
Moreover, this meeting is mainly going to give us glimpses of what is in
store; most studies are just starting.
Tentative Meeting Agenda
Tuesday 20 Oct. 1998:
Morning session: status, instrument properties, calibration, data, etc.
9:00 Mission status Title, Wolfson
9:20 Instrument properties: resolution, Wolfson, Tarbell
alignment, CCD aging, pointing
stability, exposure time accuracy,
readout noise, pedestal, flat field,
focus, etc.
Coffee
10:30 Data flow, archive, etc. Hurlburt, Gurman
11:00 Calibration: UV & EUV Golub, Tarbell, Warren
[movie time in case we finish early]
Afternoon session: I. preparing for science analysis
1:30 Compression errors, despiking, Kankelborg, Nightingale
destreaking, dark subtraction
2:00 C IV reconstruction Handy, Tarbell
2:30 TRACE Analysis Guide Bentley
(http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/~bentley/guides/tag/tag_top.html,
http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/~bentley/guides/tag/tag.ps)
2:40 EUV Temperature Diagnostics of McMullen, DeLuca, Kankelborg
3:10 TRACE and Yohkoh Nitta
Afternoon session: II. your prettiest images/movies - whetting our appetite
~4:00 [ bring your favorite pictures and movies to show and discuss ]
Wednesday 21 Oct. 1998:
Morning session: starting with UV and sunspots
9:00 Internetwork Bright Point Dynamics Rutten, Shine
9:20 Sunspot Oscillations Shine
9:40 Chromospheric and Transition Region Tarbell
Dynamics Studied with High
Cadence by SOHO TRACE and ASP
10:10 TRACE Observations of Coronal Magnetic Nightingale
Loops and Their Connections to
Sunspot Penumbral Structure
Coffee
10:50 Coronal ``Moss" as Observed by the Wolfson
TRACE Observatory
11:15 TRACE and La Palma Observations Berger and De Pontieu
11:40 Science discussions/overflow/movies [TBD]
Afternoon session: loops, moss, flares, etc.
1:00 Discussion session I. : Future plans: publications, operations, etc.
Eclipse season operations Title
Post eclipse season operations Title, Wolfson, ...
2:00 Properties of Active Region Loops Frank, Strous, Title
Observed by TRACE
2:20 Loop-Loop Interactions Title et al
2:40 Loop Plasma Evolution Over Small Golub?
Temporal and Spatial Scales
3:00 TRACE and CDS Observations De Pontieu
3:20 Loop Oscillations Fletcher, Aschwanden
3:40 Quiet Sun Observations Schrijver
Coffee
4:00 The Complex Behavior of X-Ray Bright Brown, ...?
Points as Observed by TRACE and MDI
4:20 UVCS/TRACE Streamer Observations Vasquez
4:40 Flare Observations with TRACE Alexander, Warren, Golub,
(multiple presentations) Kankelborg
Thursday 22 oct. 1998:
Morning session: filaments and other dark stuff, etc.
9:00 Filaments etc Van Ballegooijen, DeLuca
9:20 The Density of Prominences Seen in Northup, DeLuca
Absorption by TRACE
9:40 Effects of Extinction in Filaments Schryver
and Other Cool Material in the
Coronae of the Sun and Stars
10:00 Black cloud engulfs the Sun Hurlburt
Coffee
10:50 Discussion session II.: Future plans: publications, operations, etc.
Special issue of Science, solar Title
physics, etc.?
PR material: posters, videos, etc. Title
Time, location, organization, and Schrijver
funding of the ``real'' TRACE
science workshop for a big audience.
Meeting ends around 12:30. The afternoon is reserved for discussions
or travel home, whichever is preferred.
List of potential attendees:
(not meant to be exclusive; I apologize for any omissions)
David Alexander alexander@sag.lmsal.com +
Aad van Ballegooijen vanballe@cfa.harvard.edu ?
Bob Bentley rdb@mssl.ucl.ac.uk +
Tom Berger berger@lmsal.com +
Joe Covington covington@mdisas.nascom.nasa.gov +?
Craig DeForest zowie@urania.nascom.nasa.gov +
Bart De Pontieu bdp@lmsal.com +
Dick Fisher fisher@c682h.gsfc.nasa.gov ?
Lindsay Fletcher fletcher@lmsal.com +
Leon Golub golub@cfa.harvard.edu +
Joe Gurman gurman@eitv.nascom.nasa.gov +
Brian Handy handy@physics.montana.edu +?
Neal Hurlburt hurlburt@lmsal.com +
Jack Ireland ireland@cds8.nascom.nasa.gov +
Charles Kankelborg kankel@sxt4.physics.montana.edu +
Dana Longcope dana@physics.montana.edu ?
Piet Martens pmartens@lion.nascom.nasa.gov ?
Rebecca McMullen mcmullen@head-cfa.harvard.edu +
Rich Nightingale nightingale@lmsal.com ?
Nariaki Nitta nitta@sag.lmsal.com +
Julia Saba saba@mdisas.nascom.nasa.gov +
Karel Schrijver schryver@lmsal.com +
Dick Shine shine@shine.lmsal.com +
Ted Tarbell tarbell@lmsal.com +
Barbara Thompson thompson@eitv3.nascom.nasa.gov +?
Alan Title title@nice +
Alberto Vasquez avasquez@cfa.harvard.edu ?
Harry Warren hpw@dogwood.nrl.navy.mil ?
Jake Wolfson wolfson@lmsal.com +
Emily Zamkoff zamkoff@mdisas.nascom.nasa.gov ?
The meeting will be held in Building 26, Room G-10.
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