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1. RD 1 Integral SOC Operations Concept INT SOC DOC 001 RD 2 Definition of Science Observation Terms INT SOC DOC 002 RD 3 ISOC URD INT SOC REQ 001 RD 4 ISOC SRD INT SOC SRD 002 RD 5 Integral SOC System Design amp Performance Report INT SAG 98 0045 TN RD 6 Integral Mission Operations Concept INT SYS MIS TN 0001 SMD RD 7 Integral Mission Planning Concept INT SYS MIS TN 0002 SMD RD 8 ISDC Operations Management Plan ISDC OMP RD 9 Integral Ground Segment Design Report INT RP 22519 RD 10 OGS SGS ICD INT SYS ICD 0001 OGI RD 11 ISOC ISDC ICD INT SOC ICD 001 RD 12 ISOC OMC ICD INT SOC ICD 002 RD 13 ISDC EID A EID A for ISDC RD 14 EID B ISDC ICD EIDB RD 15 Instrument EID A EID Part A RD 16 EID B SPI SPI SG 0 SAT 1111 CNES RD 17 EID B IBIS IN IB IAS EID 001 00 RD 18 EID B JEM X JEMX EID B RD 19 EID B OMC OMC INT 20000 ICD 001 RD 20 Configuration Control Concept for the Integral Ground Segment INT SAG 00 0042 TN RD 21 Data Distribution Policy INT SGS 96 0027 TN RD 22 Integral Core Programme INT TN 22523 RD 23 Integral Community Support INT SAG 99 0002 TN RD 24 Instrument Team Ground Segment Delivery Document INT SOC ICD 034 RD 25 ISOC Configuration Control Procedures INT SOC DOC 008 RD 26 ISOC Uplink SUM INT SOC SUM 030 RD 27 The Integral Help Desk INT SAG 00 0112 TN RD 28 Target Visibility User Manual INT SOC UM 031 RD 29 Observation Time Estimator User Manual INT SOC UM 032
2. 5 5 1 ISOC Librarian Tasks 5 5 1 1 Flight Dynamics Packages Table 16 contains a list of all Flight Dynamics files transferred to ISOC from MOC As can be seen they fall into two categories Software amp associated data files All Software files are sent to the ISOC by surface mail on CDs The various data files which are updated more frequently are sent received via the IFTS All Flight Dynamics deliveries data or S W are accompanied by a delivery note It is assumed here that the delivery note for those files transferred via IFTS take the form of an email to the ISOC Librarian The email acts as the trigger for the librarian to retrieve the files from the operational machine where all IFTS files are sent stored The files software amp data are stored in the appropriate isoclib deliveries FDS xxxx directory on the development network The procedures relating to the installation of these software amp data files are contained in RD 25 Method Update Description of Format Comment Rate Transfer Attitude Constraints EI Libraries Checker S W Attitude Constraints IFTS Binary Biweekly Checker Data DBOB S W CD Libraries DBOB Data CD IFTS Binary Every 2 3 months Slew Time Predictor S W CD Libraries e Slew Time Predictor Data IFTS Binary Biweekly Orbit Access File IFTS Libraries Weekly Orbita amp Revno files Sect 5 5 1 1 1 Table 16 List of Flight D
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4. 2 Check for Error Messages If there is a problem with any of the tasks an error entry similar to the one below show be present in the window ERR process name_of_process not running please take action 3 Record amp Report any Problems Errors Check the Operational Logbook kept next to the machine to determine if this is a new or old entry Each entry in the processCheckMonitor task has a unique time stamp If this is a new entry record the detection of it in the Logbook and contact Software Support via email isocsmm rssd esa int and phone advising them that an error has been detected When the problem has been solved rectified the action taken should also be recorded in the Logbook This entry should contain details of any work around and where applicable the number of the SPR raised Ww Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 Www Eo esa Science Operations Centre Se j WS Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual ide 69 5 6 Instrument Mode amp Event Designator Management 5 6 1 Installation of the new Event Designators The installation of the new EDs requires that the users have access to several restricted CCS functions The following steps assume that the ISOC Librarian has received a new ED Browser from MOC and place in the ISOC deliveries directory Refer to section 5 5 1 2 5 6 1 1 Copy ED Browser to a CD ROM or some other Media device A copy of the new MS Access ED browser database needs
5. Click the button ED Parameters to view the contents of the ED c Set the initial HV setting by double clicking the ISOC Default value for parameter K0001FA and then enter the new value Press Enter to save update d Set the Final HV setting by double clicking the ISOC Default value for parameter K0001FB and then enter the new value Press Enter to save update 3 For JEM X2 a Select the row with ED Name LEACT b Click the button ED Parameters to view the contents of the ED c Set the initial HV setting by double clicking the ISOC Default value for parameter L0001FA and then enter the new value Press Enter to save update d Set the Final HV setting by double clicking the ISOC Default value for parameter L0001FB and then enter the new value Press Enter to save update 4 Click COMMIT to save updates 5 Click PRINT amp highlight Selection option and print a copy of the updates 6 Click DISNISS to close the window 7 Click DISMISS to close the Maintain Current EDs window 8 Close PHS Following the implementation of the updates the ISOC planners should regenerate ALL future schedules and check the ICPs to ensure that the correct HV activation settings are present If the settings are correct the planner should then forward the regenerated planning files to MOC amp ISDC The actual update does not require ISOC to perform any special re planning It is however be necessar
6. Edit OMC Delta Catalogue 3 In the new pop up menu window select the option INSERT The following Source Fields should be completed ID Value in this field is entered automatically RA DEC Std Error in Alpha Std Error in Delta Extension Priority Value in this field is fixed to 1 In Corporation Date Value is entered automatically Comments Field Eg mono gf Where the source characteristics are contained in a file the details can be easily copied field by field using Copy amp Paste i e Highlight the text to be copied with Left Mouse button Move curser it the appropriate PHS field and Right Click the mouse The text can be copied inserted by clicking the middle mouse button 4 Select SAVE and repeat from step 3 for each new source The updated Extension Catalogue is stored in the directory file isoc data OM C Catalogue OMC CAT V0002 ext ASCII 5 Print the new updated list amp select DISMISS to close the window 6 Exit PHS 7 Record update in the Log Book 8 Send an email to ISOC CCB isoclib rssd esa int with copy to isdc_shift obs unige ch informing them that the updates have been made A copy of the updated OMC CAT V0002 ext ASCII file should be attached File can be copied from the Ops network to the Dev network using the cp2dev instruction Ww Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 VN esa Science Operations Centre 155 e WS um Date 11 June 2004 Facil
7. UNIX these files are stored in the equivalent directory The proposals are stored with names in the format PI Name Proposal Number phs 6 Log out of PHS 5 1 2 5 2 Copy Proposals to the Development network If only few proposals are to be transferred to the development office network the best method of doing this is by using the cp2dev command Refer to section 5 1 2 5 2 1 If a large quantity of files need to be transferred then it is best to burn them on to a CD or other form or removable media Refer to section 5 1 2 5 2 2 5 1 2 5 2 1 Copy a file directly from the UNIX machine If using the UNIX system entering the following command can transfer the files cp2dev PI Name Proposal Number phs Files copied in this manner appear in the office development system in the directory home isocops DATA copy 5 1 2 5 2 2 Burning files on to a CD using PC in Ops area Before one can copy the proposals from the PC to a CD ROM it is first necessary to get a copy of the files on the PC This can task can be performed by starting PHS on the PC and executing the procedure in section 5 1 2 5 1 In order to copy the files to a CD a blank CD should be inserted into the CD DVD drive of the PC The PC should detect the insertion of the CD and automatically start the application program called NERO 7f the application does not start automatically use NERO ICON on the desktop 1 After the insertion of a blank CD into the PC CD DVD burner
8. minimum once per day for new messages e Allocate questions to either ISOC or ISDC for further investigation amp response e Check the pending questions ISOC amp ISDC and ensure that none are older than 2 days e Answer ISOC allocated questions using the FAQ lists or passes messages to appropriate ISOC specialist for action response e Update FAQ list where appropriate 5 1 1 2 Operation of the Help Desk S W JitterBug The Help Desk account can be access using a WEB Browser at the ISOC internally restricted URL http rssd esa int inthelp scripts inthelp manager The procedures for operating the Help Desk JitterBug are defined in RD 27 5 1 1 3 Maintain amp Publish a List of Frequently asked Questions The ISOC Help Desk manager duty scientist based on inputs from The ISOC amp ISDC Science teams maintains the list of FAQ The list is accessible from the ISOC web page and updated as needed Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 esa Science Operations Centre 155 S Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual ide 33 5 1 2 AO Related Procedures 5 1 2 1 Setting of the Correct AO number At the start of each AO Call it essential the AO number used by the CCS amp PHS is set to the correct value The rationale for this being that it allows the ISOC amp ISDC to differentiate between the different types of proposals using the AO number Open Time Per year Core per year Calibration Engineering amp PV p
9. present schedule will be interrupted If the re plan is to be sent as an RPOS some iteration with MOC on the exact time for the transition may be required 5 2 2 3 Enter TOO proposal observation Start Time 1 Start PHS and open the PHS application View Proposal 2 Select the required TOO proposal observation Click on Details and Checkout Note that it is assumed here that if a new Proposal was is required to support the TOO that the necessary observation s have already been entered directly using PHS 3 Enter the earliest and latest start times of the TOO observation 4 Earliest time is the suitable time selected in 5 2 2 1 bullet 4 5 There should be sufficient time between the earliest and latest start time This will some flexibility in scheduling and also accommodate overheads which may be required to perform long slews In general it is proposed to allow 12 hours between earliest and latest time Note that the status of the proposal should be approved 6 Commit the proposal the proposal database is now updated 7 Ifthere were any Fixed Time observations after the earliest start time they should be updated as well select the corresponding proposal exposure Click on Details and Checkout reset the fixed time intervals the status of the observation exposure now becomes unscheduled and commit 8 Close the PHS applications 5 2 2 4 De commit Existing Schedule amp Generate new one 1 Open OSS application
10. running on the External Communications Machine ECM has detected errors in the return mail address contained in the original proposal It should be noted that no checks are performed by PGT Each email found in this mailbox needs to be manually checked to determine the source of the problem If a match can be found the email is then forwarded to the correct address A cover note should also be included advising the proposer that the email contained in the proposal contained errors and if the email in the ERROR mailbox contained an Acknowledgement of a Valid Proposal the proposer should be asked to resubmit the proposal with a corrected email address 5 1 2 3 Proposal Analysis 5 1 2 3 1 Technical Feasibility Assessment For each proposal submitted as part of an AO Call the ISOC assesses technical feasibility of the observations contained within it See section 0 The checks are systematically performed for all observations contained within a proposal For each proposal observation the ISOC complete a Technical Feasibility Form The general layout of this form 1s shown in Table 7 The actual layout is however subject to change for each AO Call and the latest version in maintained by the Project Scientist 5 1 2 3 2 Check of Target Visibility The observer specified RA amp DEC etc of each observation must be entered manually into the Target Visibility Predictor TVP software A check is then be made to determine the visibility periods av
11. sub system configuration Scripts Maintenance of the List of Proposer Identifiers 3 2 6 ISOC Simulations Facilities 3 2 6 1 Starmap The ISOC Star map interfaces with the DBOB received from MOC and the ISOC Mission Database Star map is used to create sky bin plots in both equatorial and galactic co ordinate Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 esa Science Operations Centre S Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual Page 14 reference systems on to which the ISOC Mission Planners can project the co ordinates of the observations contained within the database 3 2 6 2 Target Visibility Predictor TVP The TVP determines the visible sky bins for a given celestial position 3 2 6 3 Observation Time Estimator OTE The OTE calculates the estimated duration of an observation given the source characteristics and the operational mode refer to RD 29 3 2 6 4 Instrument Parameter Validator IPV The IPV simulates the instrument behaviour in particular the telemetry rate required for a given instrument mode and parameter setting refer to RD 26 3 3 ISOC Archive and Distribution System For details of the ISOC Archive and Distribution System ADS refer to RD 32 3 4 ISOC Network Configuration During the operations the ISOC communicate with ISDC and the MOC via Internet The MOC system IFTS is installed at the three centres All the files transfer between the ISOC on one hand and MOC ISDC on the other
12. AD2 amp RD 9 the ISOC has implemented an out of normal office hours On Call support service This service enables the ISOC team to support TOOs and Instrument Anomalies which occur at weekends or on public holidays The baseline defined in RD 9 is that a member of the Science Team provides on call cover on Saturdays Sundays amp public holidays during the hours of 9 00 and 17 00 The person performing this task rotated among the team members is called the ISOC Duty Scientist The nominal period of support provided by the on call Duty Scientist runs from Monday 09 00 until the following Monday 09 00 The on call Duty Scientist also mans the Integral Helpdesk 2 2 2 System Management and Maintenance Group The SMM Group is responsible for all non PHCS and OS group specific activities and for the first line maintenance of ISOC hardware amp software This group consist of 3 fte engineers 2 2 2 1 Configuration Controller amp System Administrator The persons s occupying this position is are expected to carry out the following duties e Maintain Configuration Control of all ISOC specific documentation amp configurable elements e Maintain a cross reference matrix of Configured Items used by ISOC ISDC amp MOC e Co ordinate the maintenance updating of Systems amp Tools shared between ISOC amp the other Ground Segment centres e Import appropriate external deliveries i e DBOB Revno amp Orbit f
13. APF generation will provide the ISOC advanced warning that MOC may reject a POS These Planning Messages are accessible to the ISOC team on both the office development and operational networks They are located in the directory isoc data MPM F received 52 6 Reception amp Validation of Timeline Summary At the end of the Timeline Generation Process the MOC will send to ISOC via IFTS the Timeline Summary for formal approval Since the IFTS at ISOC does not trigger any alarms when a file is received the MOC will also send an email to the Mission Planners advising them of the new Timeline Summary Copies of the TSFs sent by MOC via IFTS will be stored on both the operational and office development environments In the office development system they are stored at home isocops data TSF received Ww Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 WW A esa Science Operations Centre 155 e SS Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual ide 55 52 7 Handing of Contingencies 5 2 7 1 Network Problems ISOC Should the subnet to which the ISOC ECS machine is connected fail it will not be possible for the ISOC to send amp receive any files via IFTS The impact of a short couple of days failure of the subnet is negligible unless the ISOC has to undertake a critical re plan Critical re plans are basically re plans in response to a ToO 5 2 7 1 1 Alternative method of getting data to the Operational System All ToO aler
14. Facility Operations Manual e 62 Go to the query sheet select data and click refresh Then go to the observations sheet and print this one This printout gives an overview of the total good time and good time per instrument for each observation When deciding on whether the data is good enough to be distributed one should generally ignore PICSIT good times and accept good times within 5 of the scheduled time In addition 10 deviations for short observations are accepted since rescheduling e g 5 ks is a major overhead However these are only vague guidelines and should be looked at on a case by case basis In general the good times received are normally very close to 100 unless something significant e g annealing has happened When deciding on distributing the data it should be kept in mind that data taken within 6 weeks should be processed as one set and distributed together so a look at the executed revolutions or in exceptional cases the short term schedule is needed Prior to each telecom the ISDC sends a list of observations to be discussed From the printout obtained from the spreadsheet it is clear when an observation is successful from an instrument on point of view or not If not which is an exceptional case extra time should be credited to the observation and the observer should be informed through the helpdesk However since in practice there is always a large delay before the rescheduling will take
15. LEDATA amp KE LEACT Event Designators each use the same PRF ID the updating of the KEDATA amp KEACT values for the PRF ID also update the values for LEDATA amp LEACT Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 o esa Science Operations Centre 155 i S Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual Page 73 5 6 1 6 Import new version of IODB Event Designators Note The final installation of the new version of the IODB EDs needs to be approved by the ISOC CCB 1 Select the Refresh Diffs button and verify that all discrepancies are have gone 2 Select the Options ED Differences Parameter Differences Parameter Alias Differences amp Affected Observations and verify that there are now problems remaining 3 Select the Import IODB button and CCS will initiate the final stages of the import process This will take several minutes 4 When import is complete exit by selecting Dismiss Approximately 10 minutes after the installation of the new set of EDs it will be possible to verify that the IODB version number in PHS 5 Select Help About option on the PHS Switchboard and verify that the CCS IODB Version number has been updated to agree with the latest MOC IODB The format should look like something like IODB_XX_vvvv_dd mm yy SIGNATURE dd_mm_yy_A Where IODB xx vvvv dd mm yy reflects the version of IODB imported amp SIGNATURE dd mm yy A specifies the date at when PHS CCS was updated 6 Updat
16. POS is OK Refer to section 5 2 5 5 Once MOC have verified that the POS has been accepted the POD and OPP should be sent to ISDC 6 Notify ISDC by e mail isdc ops obs unige ch with copy to isdc shift obs unige ch and telephone 41 22 950 91 70 71 or 73 that the POS has been accepted by MOC and that the POD amp IOP associated with it have been sent Refer to AD 7 for details 7 After approximately 3 minutes check the directory isoc data POD sent to confirm that the files have been sent 8 Update ISOC Log Book identifying the POS version sent the time it sent amp the scheduled time of the TOO 9 Inform Project Scientist SCOM amp observer that the TOO has now been scheduled and that the files have been sent to MOC amp ISDC Inform also the observer whose observation was unscheduled that a TOO has been implemented and that his observation will be re scheduled later 5 2 3 Soft TOO Scheduling The Soft TOO capability is supported via the addition of a new source to the OMC Delta Extended Catalogue refer to 5 1 5 followed by the regeneration of the appropriate revolution files POS ICP etc After they have been regenerated the files should be sent to MOC amp ISDC Normal TOO protocols should be followed with respect approval by PS amp co ordination with MOC Regeneration here implies starting OSS opening the applicable revolution s for display and exiting again The files should then be checked amp s
17. RD 30 Overview of PV amp In flight Calibration Plan INT SAG 01 0158 TN RD 31 Project Scientists Guidelines for ISOC Mission Planning INT SDG 02 0164 TN RD 32 Archive Software Joint Development Plan INT SAG 99 0013 TN RD 33 Instrument Modes amp Modes Transitions INT SAG 98 0042 TN RD 34 Instrument Team Ground Segment Interface Document INT SOC ICD 034 RD 35 The Galactic Centre Deep Exposure AO 2 INT SOC TN 041 1 5 List of Acronyms AO CCB CCS CPWG DCOM DBOB DRB ECS EPOS fte GCDE GPS GRB ICD I F IGSCCB INTEGRAL IPV ISDC ISOC ISWT TWS MOC MPMF OCS OGS OSS OTE PAD PCWG PGT PHS POD POS PSF R Sci Doc No Integral Issue Date Page Science Operations Centre Facility Operations Manual Archive amp Distribution System Announcement of Opportunity Configuration Control Board ISOC Configuration Control System Core programme Working Group Data Centre Operation Manager ISDC Operations Manager Database of Observable Bins Delivery Review Board Exposure Completion Status Enhanced POS Full Time Equivalent Galactic Centre Radian Deep Exposure Galactic Plane Scan Gamma Ray Burst Interface Control Document Interface INTEGRAL Ground Segment Configuration Control Board International Gamma Ray Astrophysics Laboratory Instrument Parameter Validator INTEGRAL Science Data Centre INTEGRAL Science Operations Centre Integral Science Working Team ISOC Web System Miss
18. System Proposal Validation Including check for valid Proposer ID Valid Proposal Y New Proposal Directory N Of INVALID Proposals Y Assign Update Proposal Proposal ID Version i ISOC Proposal Handling System m Reception amp Validation VALIDATED Proposals Figure 4 2 Proposal Reception amp Validation 4 3 2 3 Processing of Validated Proposals by ISOC prior to TAC Analysis Once the period of an AO Call has elapsed and the PHS Receiver Interface has been Stopped Disabled the ISOC Proposal Handling team have the task of analysing all Validated Proposals before their submission to the Time Allocation Committee TAC To examine the proposals in the database the Proposal Handlers utilise the Proposal Handling System PHS Using the PHS it is possible to filter sort and print a complete proposal and or certain characteristics of the various observations contained within it Ww Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 WN e asa Science Operations Centre e Ne Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual Page 21 Depending on the nature of the requested observations the ISOC staff may use of the Observation Time Estimator OTE and the Target Visibility Prediction TVP Software to aide their analysis into the feasibility of a specific proposal observation Following the completion of the analysis of the Validated Proposal the ISOC Proposal Handling team prepare off line a brief report
19. Technical Feasibility Assessment on each proposal The ISOC team sort the Proposals into their TAC Panel subjects The full proposal including Scientific Justification and the brief report prepared by the ISOC are then sent to the TAC 4 3 2 4 Processing of Validated Proposals by ISOC post TAC Analysis Following the completion of the TAC process the ISOC Staff update certain specific fields of the Validated Proposals held within the database The fields which the ISOC must update post TAC analysis include TAC Status APPROVED REJECTED TAC assigned Priority Allocated Duration etc 4 3 3 Core Programme Observations Prior to each AO the ISOC enter the characteristics of all Core Programme observations in line with instructions received from the Project Scientist ISWT The observations to be performed within the Core Programme are e Pointed Observations e Galactic Plane Scans e Galactic Centre Deep Exposure 4 3 3 1 Submission of Pointed Observations The procedure for the submission of the Pointed Observations is identical to that used to submit Open Time Proposals The only real differences are that the ISOC Sci Team will use PHS to submit the proposals observations The ISOC Proposal Handlers set the APPROVED flag in the Proposal Database after the Project Scientist has cross checked what has been entered 4 3 3 2 Submission of GPS On a yearly basis the ISOC team using a dedicated set of Tools Software Script
20. Timeline Summary At the end of the Timeline Generation Process the MOC send to ISOC via IFTS the Timeline Summary Since the IFTS at ISOC does not trigger any alarms when a file is received the MOC also send an email to the Mission Planner and SCOM advising them of the new Timeline Summary These Timeline Summary files are accessible on both the ISOC operational isoc data TSF and office home isocops data TSF networks 4 8 Exposure amp Observation Completion Status management At the beginning of each week planning cycle the ISOC Scientist responsible for ECS OCS handling checks to see if there are any new Exposure Completions Status files from ISDC These files are generated by the ISDC on the consolidated data hence the 3 week delay These ECS files provide the ISOC with the statistics it requires on the degree of completeness of the executed scheduled exposures AD 5 If after analyse of the ECS files they are have been confirmed to be consistent with what the ISOC scheduled and the amount of Good Time is deemed valid he she runs Import ECS option available in the Proposal Handling System PHS By importing the ECS files from ISDC he she automatically forces the system to update the status of the related observations Towards the end of each planning week cycle the same scientist using PHS generates and sends a new set of Observation Completion Status OCS files He she reports the status of all obse
21. View Schedule 2 Enter the revolution that is going to be rescheduled 3 Display the schedule of that revolution 4 Un schedule the revolution from earliest start time see section 5 2 2 1 bullet 4 and 7 put cursor on Scheduled bar right click and unschedule Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 esa Science Operations Centre 155 R Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual ie 52 5 Go to Session Window Select Use previous perigee attitude so as not to affect the start attitude of the next revolution 6 Schedule selected revolution Check the schedule the TOO should be in now 7 Save schedule summary and save statistics click on File 8 Exit the scheduling session using Generate Files option i e new schedule is now saved and POS ICP POD and OPP are created 9 Exit the PHS application 5 2 2 5 Manual Check amp Sending of planning files 1 Check the POS Refer to section 5 2 4 2 If POS is OK send POS and ICP to MOC Notify MOC integralogs esa int with copy to ISDC isdc ops obs unige ch amp isdc shift obs unige ch by e mail and then telephone the SPACON x62408 to inform him her that the files have been sent The email notification should clearly identify the point time at which the RPOS deviates from the original schedule 3 After approximately 3 minutes check the directory isoc data POS sent to confirm that the files have been sent 4 Wait until MOC verify that
22. amp analyse e analyse of instrument configured parameter modifications e investigations into instrument anomalies e Supporting the submission amp scheduling of Calibration and Engineering related proposals e Support the definition validation and scheduling of TOOs e Analyse amp Import the various ISDC generated Exposure Completion Status files in order to determine the execution status of all schedule exposures observations e Preparation and distribution Observation Completion Status files for to ISDC e Regularly review the Standard Data Products release guidelines and make recommendations to the PS e Maintenance of the Proposal Data Base and any associated data files e Operate the ISOC Science Data Archive System 2 2 1 2 Observation Scheduling Tasks The Tasks to be performed by the Science Team in support of Observation Scheduling are e Preparation of statistics reports on the long term utilisation of Integral Observation time e Operation of all orbit prediction amp visibility tools e Importation from MOC of all operations related data files PSF Planning Messages Timeline Summary DBOB etc e Using OSS create a revolution by revolution sequence of Preferred Observations POS e Transferring of Preferred Observation Schedule POS details to MOC and ISDC e Liaison with MOC amp ISDC in all matters concerning scheduled observations The size of the Integral team will be reduced when SOC activities are
23. amp approved by the Ground Segment Co ordination meetings 2 4 3 Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 esa Science Operations Centre 155 S Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual ide 23 4 4 TOO Submission amp Declaration 4 4 1 Submission of ToO Proposals outside of AO TAC amp CP Although it is expected that most potential Target of Opportunity ToO proposals is received and approved as part of the CP amp AO process it is expected that some additional proposals are submitted during the course of the mission in response to observed transients At any time throughout the mission therefore the ISOC may receive a request to interrupt the nominal planned sequence of observation and schedule a ToO The mechanism for the submission of a ToO request is via the dedicated web page http www rssd esa int Integral isoc html too my too alert html After entering amp committing the required information an email is sent to a dedicated email alias intalert rssd esa int All emails generated received are automatically forwarded to the ISOC Science Team In addition an SMS is sent to the ISOC Duty Scientist advising him her of the existence of the alert On reception of the request the ISOC Duty Scientist will e Perform a manual check against a predefined set of catalogues if the RA amp DEC of the source corresponds to a know fast transient e Check the feasibility of scheduling the required obser
24. an ED Adding a parameter to an ED is not a problem for CCS PHS Once the import is complete the ISOC CCS user must enter the ISOC characteristics of the new ED parameter This is can be done by using CCS option Current EDs 5 6 3 3 1 Impact on existing Observations What to do in this event is not a simple thing to define a procedure If CCS indicates that any existing observations are impacted the differences should be printed along with a list of the impacted observations and discussed offline with the ISOC Science Team 5 6 3 3 2 Impact on PGT Any change to an ED involving parameters may impact PGT Changes to be looked for are Number of ISOC selectable parameters Parameter range Parameter alias Parameter name E O O e 5 6 3 4 Timing Execution duration of an ED has changed In principle a change in the duration of an ED should be managed by OSS without any problem Unfortunately no or limited test has been carried out to verify OSS will correctly handle such a change It is not expect that there would be a problem if the duration were to be decreased If the duration of an ED were to be increased it has to be confirmed whether OSS correctly delays if necessary the execution of the OTF Mask unmask ED See section 5 6 2 3 Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 esa Science Operations Centre Issue 2 Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual page 77 5 6 3 5 ED Controlled by OSS have been changed 5 6 3 5 1 O
25. and hence are answered on a much shorter time scale In order to make logging of questions and answers possible the helpdesk only respond to questions submitted electronically The central helpdesk account for INTEGRAL inthelp rssd esa int has been implemented by ISOC Therefore although the INTEGRAL Science Ground Segment is split between two sites ISOC and ISDC this is kept transparent to the observer An observer therefore sees only one helpdesk Observer Query INTEGRAL help desk JITTERBUG m Replies follow ups Replies follow ups and FAQ and FAQ new mail All E mails All E mails old amp new old amp new visible at al times visible at all times Sort amp flag mai to be answered by ISDC or ISOC ISDC he k duty help des ISOC Figure 4 1 The Integral Help Desk ISOC help desk duty sci ntist All submitted queries are distributed available to both ISOC amp ISDC helpdesk staff The Help Desk Manager at ISOC co ordinates the responses The ISDC team answer questions on INTEGRAL data product s instrument calibration results and data shipment The ISOC team answer questions on Proposals observing modes observation scheduling and general INTEGRAL questions The incoming Emails are logged and each query received is assigned a reference number The person making the query is automatically notified of the number assigned In all
26. basis normal working days only the ISOC Librarian is required to perform a detailed check on the status of the critical S W tasks running on the operational server ISOCOPSV1 When the problem is identified the ISOC Librarian will record its details in the Log Book and conduct an investigation This entry should contain details of any work around implemented and where applicable the number of the SPR raised 1 LOGIN to ISOCOPWSI 2 Using the UNIX commad ps confirm a Process pld is running b Process ppd is running 3 Examine the isoc data Submitted_ Proposals directory tree for anomalies 4 Check the following log for errors a pld log b ppd log Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 o esa Science Operations Centre 1 i S Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual Pise 68 5 Run ccs noting any changes 6 Run phs noting any changes 5 5 2 4 Monitoring of Operational Server During the period of an AO Call the System administrator is required to check the status of the Push Pull Daemon and Proposal Loader tasks running on the operational server ISOCOPSV1 1 Logon on to ISOCOPWSI If the processCheckMonitor task is not already running in a window a terminal should be created Clicking the right mouse button anywhere on the desktop and selecting the option Terminal does this At terminal window command line type the following checker bin processCheckMonitor
27. be scheduled The OMC list of preferred calibration attitudes is given in Table 27 section 7 5 The source name of the proposal should reflect the attitude used 5 2 8 1 2 2 Calculating the required Observation Times Once all the calibration sets have been created and the required parameters entered the observation durations need to be calculated The easiest way of determining the required observation duration for these observations is to set the Approved Duration to 1 second and then commit them This will result in a Business Rule failure one for FFC amp one for DCC and the failure messages will tell you the minimum value required The Approved Duration for the FFC observation should then be set to the value provided by the Business Rule plus approximately 2 minutes The Approved Duration for the DCC observation must be set to at least 2000 seconds If for any reason the required duration for the DCC observation is greater than 1900 seconds the interval stored in CCS between the DCC ED amp the second STBY ED will have to be increase accordingly 5 2 8 1 2 3 Scheduling Constraints for the OMC FF amp DC Calibrations The following constraints exist when scheduling the OMC FFC amp DCC observations 1 Observations should start AT LEAST 10 hours after belt exit 2 Observations should not be scheduled over a GSHO or RWB event 5 2 8 1 2 4 Scheduled ED sequence With the present PHS CCS implementation the generated ED sequence i
28. hand is via IFTS based on TCP IP and FTP Some other file transferred via FTP e g OBSW The ISOC have two internal networks 3 4 1 Operational Network This network hosts the machines to run the critical operational parts of the ISOC system One machine is used by a Mission Planner to access the Observation Scheduling System OSS Another is used by a Proposal Handler to access the Proposal Handling System PHS The third machine is used by the Configuration Controller to access the Configuration Control System in order to update the ISOC Configurable Parameters This third machine also acts as backup to the nominal PHS amp OSS machines All the machines on the operational network and the network itself are installed in a dedicated amp secure area A mechanism exist to allow authorised users the capability of transferring copying files from the Ops system to a dedicated location on the development network 3 4 2 Development Network This network hosts the machines used as office and development machines The machines where IFTS PHS receiver and IWS are installed is accessible from the outside world The IFTS is used for the file transfer with MOC and ISDC Some other transfer are made using FTP Local copies of the OSS with the ISOC Mission database are installed on one of the scientist machines This is used by the Mission Planner to work on the Long Term Plan in order to establish the long term planning strategy and by all Sci T
29. o esa A P n Facility Operations Manual 36 5 1 2 4 Proposal Updating Post TAC Analyses 5 1 2 4 1 Background In support of the TAC process members of the ISOC science team participate as panel secretaries in the various TAC panel meetings A key part of their role during these meetings is to record the panel recommendations amp conclusion for each observation with a proposal In order to carry out this task the ISOC scientist on each panel complete a TAC Panel Results Form Spreadsheet An example of the information fields contained within this form spreadsheet are given in Table 8 This table may be revised prior to each AO At the end of the TAC process and once the TAC panel members have confirmed that the form spreadsheet has been completed correctly the ISOC Science team merge the results of the various panels into a single spreadsheet The ISOC Science team use the data contained in this spreadsheet to update all proposals observations for that AO in the proposal database Table for AO 1 TAC Panel Results Form Ge E Column Description l Proposal ID 2 Observation ID 3 RA J2000 4 DEC J2000 5 Requested time seconds 6 Grade A B C TOO A GRB B1 B2 7 Recommended target 8 Granted time sec Note TAC 0 sec for C hitchhiker converted here into 1 sec for PHS compliance 0 seconds in this column means REJECTED 9 Recommendation on dither patt
30. selection criterion o Select the ISWT GCDE and view the proposal by clicking on Details The GCDE in AO 2 consists of seven different patterns Each pattern defines two proposals For pattern 1 we have proposals 0299911 amp 0299921 for pattern 2 we have proposals 0299912 amp 0299922 etc An observation in each proposal consists of all the pointings within that pattern Since a pattern is scanned more than once during the AO there are several identical observations within each proposal The structure of the GCDE amp its patterns are explaining in RD 35 The activation selection of a specific pattern Proposal amp column Observation is performed in a manner similar to that of GPS e To activate a particular GCDE scan for scheduling select the appropriate record s and click on Checkout e Fill in the Earliest and Latest start times of that particular part of the scan If the GCDE is to be scheduled at the beginning of a revolution the Start time should be set to a value at least 1 hour after perigee When the Start amp End times are entering the revolution number is automatically calculated amp displayed Always check that the displayed revolution number is the correct one e Enter also the Start Point and End Point of the GCDE these values should be taken for the GCDE table maintained amp published by the Mission Planning Responsible e The Approved time should be updated by clicking on Update Approved time u
31. um Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual ide 80 5 6 4 2 1 Disable JEMX HV Activation EDs Belt Exit In an observation the ISOC can schedule neither either or both JEMX units When generating the output files for a specific revolution OSS checks whether a JEMX unit is used in Data Taking Mode at any time in that revolution If OSS detects that a unit is used in Data Taking mode it will automatically inserts the appropriate HV activation EDs at close to belt exit The ED to be inserted is identified in the CCS Domain Properties table The CCS parameters amp JEMX EDs used in the CCS Domain Properties table are instrumentStartup J ed KEACT instrumentStartup K ed LEACT Should it be desirable to ensure that no JEMX activation ED can be scheduled even when the Data Taking Mode has been selected one can either edit the POS amp ICP to remove the ED post scheduling or set the appropriate CCS parameter instrumentStartup value to NONE Editing the POS ICP 1s the preferred amp best when the suppression of the activation is only required for a couple of revolutions The CCS capability of suppressing the insertion of these activation EDs was implemented to enable the ISOC to avoid systematically scheduling the instrument activations should it be requested by MOC amp or the JEMX PI Ww Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 o esa Science Operations Centre 155 4 m Date 11 June 2004 Facility Ope
32. vesdeestovedoncsessbevss asea i reseven i S EIES NR Enin ass 14 341 Operational NetWOTk oues petet eet vede ENE E EEEE EENE EE E NNA AE tede edens 14 342 Development NetWOTks eitis trt e ae e E eege ege E 14 4 OVERVIEW OF ISOC ACTIVITIES e eeeeee eese eee e eene nennen tust n tuse ts tuse ta sns seac susa sisi sesi tn sse ta stss soue senatu 15 4 1 SUPPORT TO THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF OPPORTUNITY AO PROCESS eese enne enne nnne 15 4 1 1 Preparation amp Maintenance of AO Documentation 15 4 1 2 Time Allocation Committee TAC Support essere ener rennen reiner enne 16 4 2 HELP DESK amp COMMUNITY SUPPORT eese steep epe ete ER SEXHREN AEE Ee EEEE AAEE EAEE EEEE EEEE TETEE 17 42d The INTEGRAL Help Desk E te ce pu Debt guten Ge ce E Or teat ess ea 17 4 2 2 The ISOC Science amp Helpdesk Web sites essent eene aa e nennen enne 18 42 3 Publication of the ISOC Newsleiter ssa eir EEN 18 4 3 NEW PROPOSAL SUBMISSION amp PROCESSING EEN 19 43 1 The Proposal Reception System eua as iR cbe exeo cpu cux Re NC V Dee Gwen c de e ue SUE d 19 Integral INT SOC DOC 012 dx UN esa Science Operations Centre e eye e 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual 4 3 2 Open Time Proposals submitted as part of the AO TAC Process 19 4 3 3 Core Programme Observations eese eere rennen tren tre ne enee rentrer en ere treten nnns 21 4 3 4 Submission of Calibration proposals Observa
33. 000 r y See Change Bars 8 GE u MM 20 Nov 2002 See Change Bars See Change 30 Oct 2003 Bars 30 Jan 2004 ue a 11 June 2004 See Change 2 iii Change Record Integral Design Report Also includes Editorial Updates Formal Issue for start of AO 1 Call ss Issue for start of AO 1 Call editorial corrections also made PHS related procedures updated to bring them in line with the remodelled PHS Software AO TAC related activities updates to reflect as performed AO lessons learnt Information added to clarify ISOC high level handling of external deliveries and more detailed handling of Event Designators Procedures updated amp added to reflect experience gained during Simulations amp Training exercises Procedures added to cover the reception of external deliveries and the importation of Event Designators Concept of ISOC Science Team duty rotation included Kuulkers Several other editorial corrections added Procedures for AO 2 support incorporated updated along with several other minor procedural changes Updated Post AO 2 amp ISOC v10 release Updated following internal ISOC review of v1r6 Integral INT SOC DOC 012 SS E esa Science Operations Centre i B i 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual iv Table of Contents 1 INTRODUCTION EEE te tokio oe ta iex pr E NR RE bX ag baee creep eere DEVE RE Top Pep RUER UE HER ET Ra RUSO TRDR NUR 1 1 1 E 1 1 2 S
34. 16 Science Operations Centre Facility Operations Manual 4 1 1 4 Instrument Observer Manual s For each of the four instruments this document describes in detail the instruments design operations observing modes and data products that are sent out to the observer Each manual contains details on the instrument performance and a description how the observer can do a rough estimate of an observing time without using the simulator In addition a detailed example of an observing time estimate should be given in each manual 4 1 1 5 Policies Procedures and Forms This document gives detailed information on the proposal sub mission procedure the types of proposals TOO proposals Proposal evaluation and selection TAC possible modifications to observations future calls for proposals data processing and products data rights It should give examples of filled in proposal forms 4 1 2 Time Allocation Committee TAC Support Refer to section 5 1 2 Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 Issue 2 Date 11 June 2004 Page 17 Science Operations Centre Facility Operations Manual 4 2 Help Desk amp Community Support 4 2 1 The INTEGRAL Help Desk The purpose of the INTEGRAL help desk is to answer questions from observers on INTEGRAL proposals scheduling data etc with a short turn around time The target time between receiving a question and answering responding to it being a few working days Most queries received are minor
35. 3 Selecting the option Prepare forces PHS to start the query on the database The query will result in the production of lists of possible candidates 4 These candidate lists need to be analysed to determine if the selected observations make scientific sense 5 Once the candidate lists have been analysed and updated if necessary the appropriate observations should be added to the core observations 6 The list of observations associated with each core can then be saved and printed Ww Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 KRIS esa Science Operations Centre 155 e We um Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual page 44 5 1 6 OMC Delta Catalogue Maintenance Before performing any updates to the OMC extension catalogue a back up of the present version should be made Backing up of the catalogue is preformed by using standard UNIX copy command The extension catalogue is located in the directory isoc data OMC Catalogue OMC_CAT_Vnnnn_ext ASCII The copy created should keep the same name version details as the original with the exception of the inclusion of the date Y Y YYMMDD as the end of the name 5 1 6 1 Add an entry to the OMC Delta Catalogue If a list of sources has been provided it is better saves typing amp errors to copy the file onto the operational system Via a floppy disc is probably the easiest way 1 Start PHS amp login as normal 2 Under PHS option CCS select sub option
36. 31 71 565 5614 ISOC Meeting Room F1072 Conference Box line 31 71 565 3591 Project Scientist C Winkler 31 71 565 4532 Mission Manager A Parmar 31 71 565 3471 Science Operations Manager L Hansson 31 71 565 5434 ISOC Office Fax machine 31 6 52062136 Mobile assigned to Mission Manager A Parmar 31 6 52062137 Mobile assigned to Deputy Project Scientist tbd 31 6 52062138 Mobile assigned to Science Operations Manager L Hansson 31 6 52062139 Mobile assigned to ISOC Duty Scientist Scientist on call 31 6 53775153 Private Mobile of Project Scientist C Winkler Table 4 List of Key ISOC Telephone Numbers Ww Integral INT SOC DOC 012 eS a Science Operations Centre i e xw S 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual d 3 The ISOC System 3 1 System Overview The ISOC system in the main supports the uplink activities but in addition it hosts a copy of the INTEGRAL archive mirror of the ISDC INTEGRAL archive Consequently the ISOC system see RD 5 is split in two independent elements the ISOC core system to support the uplink operations and the Archive and Distribution System ADS 3 2 The ISOC Core System The ISOC core system consists of the following elements ISOC WWW System IWS this system provides access to ISOC for the public It allows access to the AO package and PGT to the catalogues access to the Proposal Public Data and handling of the Change Requests access to the change
37. 5 2 8 1 2 Creating amp scheduling OMC FF amp DC Calibrations With the present PHS implementation this nominal FFC amp DCC sequence can be scheduled as two consecutive observations The first observation contains the FFC observations and the second the single DCC observation These observations use the specially defined by ISOC OMC FF Cal Multiple and DC Cal Multiple modes e the FF Cal Multiple mode consists of the STBY ED followed by the FFC ED 16 Until SCREW 400 has been implemented there is an implementation constraint that the DC Cal Multiple should only contain one observation iteration of the ED sequence The observation duration is also fixed to 2000 seconds Ww Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 VN esa Science Operations Centre 155 e WS SE Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual Sage 57 e the DC Cal Multiple mode consists of the STBY ED followed by the DCC ED followed by the STBY ED 5 2 8 1 2 1 Building an OMC FF amp DC Calibration Proposal The easiest way to build a new proposal is of course to copy an existing one and simply updating the parameter contents if required changing the attitude to be used and enter the new start time The number of OMC FFC calibration runs to be performed can be adjusted by adding or deleting a calibration set to the first observation The attitude to be used in any specific FF DC calibration proposal observation will depend on the other observations to
38. AINTENANCE eee e eee en een en een ener enne 3l 4 10 INTEGRAL SCIENCE DATA ARCHIVE erecti tren Hee nene inre irs detiene serie EEEE Etes 3l 5 ISOC INTERNAL PROCEDURES eeeeeee sete senes tote sa tastes toes ts sns to sese ts esos tastes sos so sonata ases tasses se essene 32 5 1 PROPOSAL HANDLING amp COMMUNITY SUPPORT sese eee een en een nnne eene 32 DDD ACIDS I EE 32 5 1 2 AO Related Procedures sse eterne enne e nte ee rre tree entrent er en rennen nennen nnne 33 5 1 3 Core Programme Submission esses eene eterne ener tretetrte rte trente enne tre trennt rennes 43 5 1 4 Calibration amp Engineering Proposal Submission eese eere 43 3 1 5 Observation Amalgamation esee eene eter en etre EErEE NEEESE trennen rnnt eren rnnt 43 5 1 6 OMC Delta Catalogue Maintenance 44 52 OBSERVATION SCHEDULING 245 esie s etes etr eire eee E iy te eei EErEE Re EREEREER Eei ea KARR SEREEN RAEE 46 3 2 1 Routine Planning Activities eese entren etre tnee rentre ient tren etre retes resene rea 46 3 2 2 Target of Opportunity Scheduling sees ene nren eere nr ener enne 5l 3 2 3 Soft TOO Scheduling screenees oiin eene eren tren etre nennen EEE n aiee anana ien 52 3 2 4 Visual Checks on Generated Planning les 53 3 2 5 Checking the Planning Messages 53 5 2 6 Reception amp Validation of Timeline Summary see eene ener eere 54 3 2 7 Handling o
39. ATA L0023F VTYPE R gt E CATEG N gt C Changed KEACT K0022F VTYPE R gt E CATEG N gt C Changed KEACT K0023F VTYPE R gt E CATEG N gt C Changed LEACT L0022F VTYPE R gt E CATEG N gt C Changed LEACT L0023F VTYPE R gt E CATEG N gt C Table 19 List of expected JEMX related ED differences ED Name FPNAME Change to make KEDATA K0022F Open VTYPE amp change value from E to R Open CATEG amp change value from C to N Open PRF_ID 3886 and change the entry which has PRV_MINVAL from 3 125 to 0 PRV_MAXVAL from 93 75 to 29 K0023F Open VTYPE amp change value from E to R Open CATEG amp change value from C to N Open PRF_ID 3887 and change the entry which has PRV_MINVAL from 6 25 to 1 PRV_MAXVAL from 96 875 to 30 LEDATA L0022F Open VTYPE amp change value from E to R Open CATEG amp change value from C to N Open PRF_ID 4046 and change the entry which has PRV_MINVAL from 3 125 to 0 PRV_MAXVAL from 93 75 to 29 L0023F Open VTYPE amp change value from E to R Open CATEG amp change value from C to N Open PRF_ID 4047 and change the entry which has PRV_MINVAL from 6 25 to 1 PRV_MAXVAL from 96 875 to 30 KEACT amp K LOOOIFA Open VTYPE amp change value from E to R LEACT Open CATEG amp change value from C to N K L0001FB Open VTYPE amp change value from E to R Open CATEG amp change value from C to N Table 20 List of necessary JEMX ED Updates The KE
40. C to the Integral Science Operations Manager SCOM The SCOM in conjunction with the MOC appointed Spacecraft Operations Manager SOM and the ISDC appointed Data Centre Operations Manager DCOM ensures that operations of the Integral mission are conducted in line with the scientific objectives laid down in AD 1 or as amended by the Project Scientist In addition to the task of the day to day management of the ISOC the SCOM represents the ISOC on the Integral Ground Segment Configuration Control Board IGSCCB Integral Project Scientist E e Science ISDE M eese den eruere terere ten neteneneted Operations T ee MOC Data Centre Manager Spacecraft Operations Operations Manager Manager D D D ot System Management amp Maintenance Proposal Handling amp Community Support Observation Scheduling PELLIS D Se D annan Figure 2 1 Integral Science Operations Team Structure 2 1 The ISOC Team Within the ISOC the Science Operation Manager SCOM leads a small team of experienced Scientist Astronomers and Engineers For conceptual reasons the team has traditionally be divided into three functional operational elements or groups The three functional groups are e Proposal Handling amp Community Support Group PHCS e Observation Scheduling Group OS e System Management and Maintenance Group SMM In reality however there are only two physical gr
41. H ERR eam LE aad Rs 6 Table 2 ISOC Weekly Operations Meeting Agenda i p aont dne SEANCE o EA ERN e URE 8 Table 3 List of Formal ISOC Email Addresses eem rittn io t er eet E re exea rA EMEN EAS 4E Didone 10 Table 4 List of Key ISOC Telephone Numbers iu eoe oti etre pepe Re tu ed bete kx rupe e eege gegeg 10 Table 5 Agreed Allocation of AO NUmbEets eegene 33 Table 6 Mail Boxes used by isocprop account 34 Table 7 Example of Technical Feasibility Assessment Fom eene 35 Table 8 AO 1 TAC Panel Results Porn scsesssascsassresissassncesdscauesnsanecdsoaveneesnncsnearsonarteseaaeuabaenaness 36 Table 9 Location of Proposals on the CD 38 Table 10 Commands to Sort AO 3 Science Justfceatons 40 Table 11 Definition of parameters in justsplit scermt 40 Table 12 Commands to Sort AO 2 Science Justifications eee eese eese eee eee tant tnnen 41 Table 13 Nominal ED Sequence of OMC FFC amp DOC a gesvcsaussicesscuunscasvinualiatvarssmnnecavendietivnuntes 56 Table 14 List of Flight Dynamics deliveries c csccssscsusasesseeonsasassase sesnaasoncsventsasnsnasseoanseadacepsenancananton 64 Table 15 Other Eegeregie eege AEO E ESEE E 65 Table 16 List of OMC Software amp Data File deltvertes 66 Table 17 List of expected JEMX related ED differences ccssccssccssstscesscsscescessnecssceseccennees 72 Table 18 List of necessary JEMX ED Updates edniieti rto eQo eR FeD EN GR M E rID RO DIPI 72 Table 19 ED us
42. INTERNATIONAL GAMMA RAY ASTROPHYSICS LABORATORY INTEGRAL Science Operations Centre Facility Operations Manual INT SOC DOC 012 Issue 2 11 June 2004 Custodian J Nolan SCI SDG Approved by L Hansson SCI SDG Endorsed by C Winkler SCI SDG d Hesa Integral Science Operations Centre Facility Operations Manual INT SOC DOC 012 2 11 June 2004 ii Distribution List Head ESA RSSD SD Kessler M Integral Project Scientist Winkler C Integral SOC Barr P Lock T Dean N Hansson L Jacob F Kuulkers E Nolan J Much R Orr A Oosterbroek T Sternberg J Treloar J Williams O R SCI SD SCI SDG SCI SDG TOS QQS SCI SDG SCI SDG SCI SDG SCI SDG SCI SDG SCI SDG SCI SDG SCI SDG SCI SDG SCI SDG SCI SDG lt KKKKKKMKKKKKKK Integral Mission Manager Parmar A Integral MOC Schmidt M Southworth R Fahmy S Integral SDC Courvoisier T J L Walter R Mowlavi M Texier D Inst Operations Managers de Miguel E La Rosa G Lund N Westergaard N J Roques J P SCI SA TOS OGI TOS OGI TOS OGI ISDC ISDC ISDC SCI SD OMC IBIS JEM X JEM X SPI KKK KKK K n n Integral Mo INT SOC DOC 012 esa Science Operations Centre i 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual Document Date Issue Section 15 Dec 1999 26 May 2000 ee Oct 2000 PEL All piss rerun e iver SOC Hs 1 Nov 2000 20 Nov 2
43. J opens the associated Scientific Justification The justification is as 7 For AO 3 it is proposed that the science justifications are stored on the CD in both postscript if that was the original format amp pdf Ww Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 KRIS esa Science Operations Centre 155 e WS um Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual ide 39 submitted by the proposer All files were in PDF format and where a justification had been submitted in postscript it was converted to pdf before insertion on the CD 5 1 2 6 1 Selection of AO 03 Proposals 5 1 2 6 1 1 Copy Save AO 03 Proposal as PDF files for the TAC This procedure describes the steps necessary to save a copy of the AO 03 proposals in PDF format for distribution to the TAC 1 Log in to the Operations Room PC as phsuser1 and start PHS using the desktop shortcut Standard use logins amp passwords are sufficient 2 Select PHS option to View the Proposals 3 Select the following sort criteria o AO number 03 o Category X o Status Validated o Type General Programme Where X is one of the following Compact Objects Extragalactic Objects Nucleosynthesis Others 4 Select all proposals displayed by left clicking the mouse on the first row and then while holding down the Shift button right clicking the mouse 5 Select the Print options with printer set to Acrobat PDF Writer Click OK 6 Select requir
44. MC IM_A amp IM_B have been highlighted Refer to section 5 6 2 3 5 6 3 5 2 Broadcast Packet Mask Unmask Refer to section 5 6 2 3 5 6 3 6 Final Importation of new Event Designators If the problems with the new IODB required that the previous import attempt be aborted the import procedure should be repeated from section 5 6 1 4 If a new or modified ED Browser has been delivered the procedure will have to be repeated from the beginning Ww Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 VN esa Science Operations Centre 155 e WS um Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual page 78 5 6 4 JEMX Specific Event Designator Activities 5 6 4 1 Procedure to Update the Default JEM X1 amp 2 HV settings Following the reception of an update request from the JEMX PI the ISOC responsible should raise the required GS CR Ref RD 34 and the associated ISOC SCREW Configured Item Once the GS CR amp SCREW have been raised the ISOC responsible should discuss with the PI and the MOC amp ISOC planners a convenient time revolution at which to implement the update Once the update has been approved by the GS amp ISOC CCBs the ISOC responsible should implement the following procedure to update the ISOC DB By convention the difference between the initial amp final HV for a given JEMX unit should always be THREE LSB 1 Logon to PHS and select the CCS option Current EDs 2 For JEM X1 a Select the row with ED Name KEACT b
45. SHO amp RWBs associated with that revolution The ISOC therefore should never unless first agreed with MOC import a new version of a PSF where the resulting POS would have to be sent as an RPOS An RPOS being defined as the re planning of the on going revolution or any revolution starting within 8 hours of the time at which ISOC would submit the files 5 2 1 2 Selection of Observations to be scheduled Based on the Long Term Plan approved by the Project Scientist and the GPS amp GCDE table produced amp maintained by the Mission Planning Responsible the Duty Mission Planner will using the Starmap refer to RD 26 select the areas of the sky called Sky Bins where it is possible to schedule observations These Sky Bins being selected on user definable criteria such as Sky Bin visible for greater than Sky Bin visible in a specific revolution week or month etc Once the appropriate available Sky Bins have been identified the Duty Mission Planner selects from the database the Proposal Observation he is interested in scheduling In this way he can check their visibility Once he she is happy with his selection he she can proceed to scheduling them Refer to section 5 2 1 3 5 2 1 3 Generation of the Physical Observation Schedules Before scheduling any revolution the directory isoc data PSF accepted should be check in order to confirm that the required PSFs have already been imported into OSS This information is not availab
46. T SOC DOC 012 e Gc esa Science Operations Centre 155 ruens Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual ide 66 5 5 1 3 Deliveries from OMC Team Table 18 contains a list of the OMC files to be received by ISOC Method Update Description of Format Comment Rate Transfer OMC Pointing Software FIP Libraries OMC Catalogue FTP Ascii Every AO OMC Delta Catalogue Email Ascii Provided to ISOC every time a input new temporary addition to the catalogue is to be added Table 18 List of OMC Software amp Data File deliveries The OMC delivered Pointing Software will only be changed if there is a problem detected with the onboard software or hardware On the other hand it is expected that the ISOC do receive the occasional update to the OMC catalogue Updated versions of the catalogue are to be expected as a minimum following every AO cycle Other updates are made available when it is deemed necessary by the OMC Instrument Team to incorporate new sources or update the details of existing ones In line with RD 34 when a new copy of the OMC Catalogue or Software is ready the OMC Team send an email delivery note to the ISOC Librarian specifying the server amp location of the new delivery The ISOC Librarian then copies the appropriate file s to the ISOC deliveries directory Aisoclib deliveries omc dd mm yy and inform the SCOM amp ISOC CCB of its arrival The ISOC CCB proced
47. TRUCTURE OF DOCUMEN T i 2 teretes des teeeti ceite SATER Re ee FERENT ERE E SDAA SEESE EAE ASES eT EIN CERENA NHE FER NENEN NE 1 1 3 APPLICABLE DOCUMENTS ee eicere ext acia FE eege e ERR Fete EE EEA SESE REAA STETE EES EONAR SENi es TREE Ete E shes 2 1 4 REFERENCE Klee E 2 1 5 LIST ee T 3 2 ISOC TEAM STRUCTURE amp DISTRIBUTION OF TASKS eeeeeeeeeeee eee ee enne en sinn tn seta tn setae tn tuse tn suns tnn 4 2 1 REIS CNN 4 2 2 DISTRIBUTION OF TASKS WITHIN THE ISOC csccscseseseccoscssconescesncsecnsessesthstesscensessscsesssaesencvececenisensenasensssobspecestosness 5 22 4 The ISOC Science TOU ec GE peo Oasis Hd RUE REC actin E EHE odo CORO E ep pe ise 5 2 2 2 System Management and Maintenance Group 7 2 3 REGULAR MEETINGS amp TELECONFERENCES ciscsscosscsessscsscssesssensonscntonsontvenonsssesebvcosuvaosasetsvssonssnecsesscesevsessneeassesness 8 2 3 1 ISOC Weekly Operations Meeting ter pedet ees er id aee de e eae pci ern dd 8 2 3 2 JSOC Science Planning meetings ee per e b pede it etc teet e ab tenen ea a pese eel edes 8 2 3 3 ISOC Configuration Control Board Meetings 8 2 3 4 Bi Weekly Science Teleconference with ISDC esses enne 8 2 3 5 Bi Weekly Ground Segment Teleconference eese eene eene 8 2 4 OTHER MEETINGS T A 9 2 41 Integral Science Working Gr
48. ailable The TVP User Manual RD 28 contains all the details required to use the TVP 5 1 2 3 3 Check of Requested Observation Time For each observation submitted the ISOC check whether the observer s requested Observation Time is in agreement with the values predicted by the Observation Time Estimator OTE The OTE User Manual RD 29 contains all the details required to use the OTE Integral INT SOC DOC 012 eS a Science Operations Centre S 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual 35 Technical Feasibility Assessment Form Proposer ID Proposal Title Assessed By 1 Does NOT Conflict with Core Programme Yes No 2 Target visible at Required Time Yes No Instrument Details 3 Energy Range Valid Yes N Yes N Yes N Yes N Yes N Yes N 9 Others Specify D Yes No n a Yes No n a Yes No n a Yes No 14 Others Specify KEE 15 Dither Pattern Consistent with requested use of Instruments Yes No 16 Others Specify Scheduling Feasibility 17 Fixed Time Requirements Feasibility Yes No 18 ToO Trigger Feasibility Yes No 19 Others Specify ISOC Feasibility Recommendation P Yes feasible No Infeasible To be discussed Table 7 Example of Technical Feasibility Assessment Form n o o This table along with Table 8 are maintained by the PS and subject to revision prior to each AO Integral INT SOC DOC 012 d le 2 gm Science Operations Centre i
49. aintain amp Publish a List of Frequently asked Questions ISOC Librarian amp 5 5 1 1 Flight Dynamics Packages System Admin 5 5 1 2 IODB amp ED Deliveries 5 5 1 3 Deliveries from OMC 5 5 2 1 Starting amp Stopping of the PHS Receiver Task AO 5 5 2 2 Status Check of the External Interface Machine 5 5 2 3 Status Check of the Operational Server AO 22 24 Monitoring of Operational Server Additional Tasks amp 5 1 2 1 Setting of the Correct AO number AO Procedures 5 1 2 2 Monitoring of Proposal Status AO 5 1 2 3 Proposal Analysis AO Shared between 5 1 2 4 Proposal Updating Post TAC Analyses AO Science Team 5 1 2 5 Returning a Proposal PGT Compatible version to a Proposer AO 5 1 2 6 Creation of the CD with copy of Proposals for the TAC AO 5 1 3 Core Programme Submission AO 5 1 4 Calibration amp Engineering Proposal Submission Monthly 5 1 5 Observation Amalgamation AO 5 1 6 OMC Delta Catalogue Maintenance Event Designator 5 6 1 Installation of the new Event Designators IODB Maintenance 5 62 Mode amp ED Definition amp Re configuration 5 6 3 Investigation into Problems with IODB EDs 5 6 4 JEMX Specific Event Designator Activities Archive Activities 54 Science Data Archive Management Table 1 Distribution of Procedures Ww Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 KRIS esa Science Operations Centre 155 e We um Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual Page 7 2 2 1 4 On Call Strategy In line with
50. al ID must be quoted in all future communications with the ISOC Help Desk regarding this Proposal e Acopy of the Email is sent to a special ISOC Proposal Handler account isocprop rssd esa int for internal ISOC records If found in error e The proposal is placed in the INVALID Proposals Directory within the PHS e An automatic task sends the proposal back to the Proposer indicating that the proposal failed the validation process The Email contains details of the error s detected e Acopy of the Email is sent to the special Proposal Handler account for internal ISOC records 4 3 2 2 The Re Submission of an Open Time Proposal during the AO At any time during the AO Call an observer is free to resubmit an already Validated Proposal The procedure for re submission is basically the same as for the first time submission with the only additional constraint on the proposer being that s he is required to use the ReSUBMIT option Integral INT SOC DOC 012 2 11 June 2004 20 Science Operations Centre Facility Operations Manual Any successfully validated re submitted proposal is stored in the database with a new high version number On the other hand PHS treats as a new proposal any re submitted proposal that does not containing a valid Proposal ID If successfully validated it results in a new proposal in the database with a new Proposal ID Proposal to PASSED VALIDATION ISOC VALIDATION Email Email ISOC
51. annot provide a systematic guide on which observations are to be scheduled at which time The procedures contained here assume that the user Mission Planner is familiar with the software packages described in RD 26 and the Project Scientist to Mission Planner Guidelines RD 21 The major S W packages covered in RD 26 are o Starmap o Proposal Handling Subsystem o Observation Scheduling System 52 1 Routine Planning Activities The actual task of generating a set of observation schedules is relatively straightforward The real task is to determine which observations and in which sequence the mission planner wishes them to be scheduled The mission planner has full freedom in determining both the observation and the order they will be scheduled It is however assumed that he she will follow the approved Long term plan as close as possible Deviations to the long term plan for example in response to a TOO etc will be tracked by the Science team Member who has been nominated by the Project Scientist as Mission Planning Responsible It is assumed periodically therefore that the Mission Planning Responsible scientist will produce updates to the long term plan The nominated Duty Mission Planner is expected therefore to use the Long term plan and any issued updates as the scientific input to the planning process Other inputs will be the need to perform Calibration amp or Engineering observations The need for any of these two later items to be p
52. at are to perform have the full approval of the ISOC CCB and when appropriate e g ED Timing in consultation with MOC 5 6 2 1 Maintenance of ED level information The CCS option Current EDs allows the user to view sort and modify the characteristics of all EDs installed on the PHS CCS The following characteristics are displayed can be changed on the opening window Next ED Offset By selecting a specific ED the ED characteristics can be set changed by selecting ED Parameters The following parameters can be changed in the pop up window ISOC Parameter Default Values ISOC Parameter Acronyms Note The Next ED Offset and the ISOC Parameter Acronym must be entered for each ED The Acronym is the parameter description displayed in PHS An ISOC Parameter Default Value must be entered if no MOC Default has been specified 5 6 2 2 Maintenance of ISOC Instrument Modes The CCS option Mode Maintenance allows the user to build and maintain the list of ISOC supported Modes In order to do this option allows the user to create new modes and associated EDs with that mode It is also possible for the user to completely remove a mode from the system This option of CCs consists to two sub options 1 At mode level the user must define can change the following ISOC Mode Description Should use UPPER CASE Mode Start Offset wrt PREQ TM Allocation Default Min Max Minimum Exposure Time ISDC KEY The applicable mode num
53. ation Status amp Statistics 5 Report on any Deviations Re plans performed Outside of weekly meeting in support of unforeseen events 6 Short term schedule for next 2 3 weeks 7 Longer term planning next couple of months 8 Archive 9 AOB Table 2 ISOC Weekly Operations Meeting Agenda 2 3 2 ISOC Science Planning meetings Throughout the mission the Project Scientist organises amp chairs regular bi weekly or monthly meeting of the ISOC Science team The principle objective of these meetings is to review the status of the current schedule with respect to the Long Term Plan LTP and amend the LTP accordingly An integral element of any review of the LTP is feedback from ISDC on the status of the executed observations The determination of the status of executed observations is the key purpose of the bi weekly ISOC ISDC telecons ref Section 2 3 4 2 3 3 ISOC Configuration Control Board Meetings These meetings are held as required The SCOM or his nominated deputy shall chair this meeting which is attended by representatives of ISOC groups The objective of the meeting is to monitor amp control the modifications to the ISOC S W Systems and all it s configured elements 2 3 4 Bi Weekly Science Teleconference with ISDC These teleconferences are held with ISDC to discuss the status of the observations and the distribution of the science data In preparation for these meeti
54. ber as assigned defined in RD 11 Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 esa Science Operations Centre 155 R Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual Page 75 2 In order to assign an ED to a mode the user need only select the required ED from the list provided The user can also change the order by which the EDs shall schedules when the mode is called executed by OSS 3 When a new ED with observation specific parameters is added to an already exiting amp USED mode it is necessary to deselect select that mode Qobservation level before the new parameters can be seen modified in an observation 5 6 2 3 Maintenance of other ED Relationships It should be noted that the ED Import amp Maintenance functionality s of CCS only work on ED related information stored within PHS It is possible for EDs to change which may impact not only PHS but also OSS amp PGT configuration scripts amp or code If this happens it is necessary for the person responsible for the importing of the EDs to raise the necessary subsystem SPRs The known subsystems amp corresponding EDs where this is necessary are given in Table 21 Sub system ED related info OSS timing amp content associated with updating the BCP wrt Slews timing of the sending of the PST ED Timing amp content of OMC IM A amp IM B EDs PGT All mode definitions and ALL associated ED parameters Table 21 ED used in PGT amp OSS whose character
55. bility has however been retained as a OSS functionality to cover contingency cases requests detected by MOC To manually insert a RWB the planner need simply right click the mouse whilst holding the cursor over the appropriate point in the OSS schedule visualisation window Ww Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 VN esa Science Operations Centre 155 WS um Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual ide 61 5 3 Observation Status Monitoring 5 3 1 Check for reception of new ECS files On a regularly daily basis the responsible ISOC scientist is required to check for the reception of Exposure Completion Status ECS files from ISDC These files are received via IFTS and are stored on the development office network in the directory isocops isoc data ECS received The simplest way of checking for these files is by typing Is Irt isocops data ECS received 5 3 2 Processing ECS files If any new files are present the Duty Proposal Handler should log into PHS in the operations room Normal user ID amp Password are applicable gt Select the PHS option Import Export Files gt Select option ECS Process One by one the user can process the ECS s by either double clicking on the filename or selecting the filename and clicking open After a few seconds you have an overview of the good times Check the good time and compare it to the scheduled time Normally they are either very close or caus
56. by 2 degrees is more cpu intensive and does not necessarily improve the scheduling 8 Minimum visible duration When scheduling observations ONLY skybins with the minimum visible duration value given default is 30 000 seconds can be scheduled Values below typically 10 000 seconds about 3 hours are not recommendable The values are PER revolution An Explanation of the Schedule Display Window 9 When the option Display a Revolution is selected the Schedule Display window pops up A timetable is shown for the whole revolution for the following properties e Scheduled this bar shows the actual schedule e Colours are white target green handover window pink slew yellow RWB 10 Right clicking with the mouse gives two options Details and Unschedule e When selecting Details a window pops up with some more detailed info start and end times what kind of event etc on the particular part of the observation where one clicked e When selecting Unschedule ALL scheduled observations and slews after the point where one clicked upon are deleted 11 When a RWB has been inserted manually see below one can also select Delete RWB This deletes the RWB selected Note that only manually inserted RWBs can be deleted and not the ones that are defined in the PSF 12 Instrument this bar shows when the instruments are on and can be used for doing scientific observations 13 Slew this bar shows when slew can be pe
57. chedule amp when is the LTP 4 6 2 2 2 GPS and GCDE observations When it comes to scheduling the GPS amp GCDE the ISOC Mission Planner check his her records and the LTP to determine which scan or part of the GCDE is due to be performed After confirming this using Starmap the planner selects the appropriate observation and points within it GPS amp GCDE observations are then schedule as fixed time observations 4 6 2 2 3 Insertion of Calibration amp Engineering Observations Calibration or engineering observation are stored in the proposal database as fixed time observations and as such require no special scheduling procedures The mission planner ensures that each observation has the correct start time obs duration and instrument mode settings These observations are always scheduled as Fixed Time observations and are handles as in the normal manner 4 6 2 2 4 Sorting of Observations Having extracted a list of observations the Mission Planner has the capability of sorting them further using their database attributes The outcome of these sorts is displayable in both graphical and tabular format The Mission Planner is able to print and save the results of the sorts performed 4 6 2 3 Generation of the POS amp POD With the preferred set amp sequence of observations defined the mission planner uses the Observation Scheduling OSS System to merge the selected observations with the MOC provided PSFs The OSS attempts to sch
58. copsvl USER Identifier phsuser 3 Click the option Connect 4 In the left hand window Local System change the directory to point to C ao3cd ao2 X Where X is compact extra nucleo other 5 In the right hand window Remote System change the directory to point to phsuser1 ao3cd ao02 X 6 Select and drag the just folder on the Remote system to the local system 7 Repeat for all four categories 8 Log out of WS_FTP Pro 5 1 2 6 3 Creating an HTML List Table of Proposals 1 Logon to PC as PHSUSERI 2 Select Start button amp select Run a Program 3 Enter the following command to create AO 1 tables c ao3cd ao_scripts ao2 createindex isoc 4 Enter the following command to create AO 2 tables c ao3cd ao_scripts ao3 createindex isoc The tables created are stored in the directories C ao3cd ao2 amp C ao3cd ao3 5 1 2 6 4 Burn Master CDROM of Proposals In order to copy the files to a CD a blank CD should be inserted into the CD DVD drive of the PC The PC should detect the insertion of the CD and automatically start the application program called NERO If the application does not start automatically use NERO ICON on the desktop 1 After the insertion of a blank CD into the PC CD DVD burner the NERO program should open a New Compilation window o Select the option Open and from list of files displayed select CD for AO 03 This should result i
59. corresponding revolutions Due to the Sun anti Sun moon and earth constraints there can be up to 3 arcs of the GPS pattern visible at a particular time Normally however there are only 2 Based on the Long Term Plan the mission planner using Starmap and TVP determines which the parts of the scans are visible and then optimising these visibility periods against the total allocated time for the GPS In generally GPS scans are best scheduled at the beginning of a revolution The reason for this being that long slew to the first GPS pointing may be unavoidable By scheduling the GPS as the first observation in a revolution means that any long slew required to get to the start point will take place before exiting the radiation belts Selecting a specific GPS scan amp arc of scan for scheduling The proposal numbers for the GPS scans in AO 02 start with 02998 o From within PHS select View Proposals option o Select ISWT survey under Type amp make Type active as a selection criterion o Selectthe ISWT GPS and view the proposal by clicking on Details The GPS proposal has 52 records They have numbered 001 002 003 etc The first 3 digits are for the pattern number There are normally two records for pattern 1 sub records corresponding to 2 arcs which may be visible during a year e To activate a particular GPS scan for scheduling select the appropriate record s and click on Checkout e Fill in the Earlies
60. d 5 5 1 2 IODB amp ED Deliveries In addition to the Flight Dynamics files transferred to ISOC from MOC the ISOC also receive the Event Designator Browser This browser is a subset of the much larger IODB and contains the details required by ISOC to command the correct instrument configuration Table 17 Description Re Format Comment Transfer Integral Operational FTP MS Baseline is that this file is not sent to ISOC Instead Database IODB Access ISOC receive the smaller ED Browser see below Event Designator Email MS Placed on the MOC ftp server as a Zipped MS Browser FTP Access Access file of 6 M Used by ISOC to extract ED details Table 17 Other MOC Deliveries The IODB contains details of not just the required Event Designators but also all satellite TM parameters At an estimated size of 100 Mb this file is not very easy to manage manipulate The ED Browser on the other hand is much smaller 30 Mb SMb when compressed and in addition it support easy visualisation of the EDs Following the reception of the delivery note Email from MOC the Software Librarian retrieves the file via FTP and place it in the appropriate new ED Browser directory on the ISOC development system Typical directory structure is isoclib deliveries iodb dd mm yy The zipped amp unzipped versions of the MS Access have the formats Event Designator 2K dd mm yy zip or Event Designator mdb le Integral Doc No IN
61. d combined JEMX allocation This can be done using the CCS option Mode Maintenance The present ISOC defaults are given in Table 23 The combined max TM allocation is nit given here as it is subject to change Mode JEMX 1 JEMX 2 Def TM Min TM Max TM Def TM Min TM Max TM NOT USED 1 1 124 1 1 124 SETUP 8 1 124 8 1 124 DATA TAKING 8 1 124 8 1 124 DIAG_DUMP 8 1 124 8 1 124 SAFE DORM 1 1 124 1 1 124 Table 23 JEMX 1 amp 2 TM Allocation ISOC CCS defaults 3 ALL observations Normal Calibration GPS amp GCDE which have only been partially scheduled need to be closed down set to Completed and new observations created to cover the remaining time amp Approved 4 Before proceeding it must be confirmed that no scheduled partially scheduled observations remain in the database 5 ISOC need to run the swapjemx script to update ALL Approved Observations and set the JEMX1 modes amp TM parameters to those of JEMX2 In all Approved observations JEMX 2 mode should then be set to SAFE DORM The TM allocation should always be set to Default 2 If both JEMX units are to be used it may be necessary to adjust the default TM allocation see Table 23 to match the approved combined allocation This script is located in the directory isoc software master db v4 x x alter Ww Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 wi asa Science Operations Centre 155 S WS
62. data IODB on the operational server e Open the FTP connection to the OPS server by double clicking the desktop icon isocopsvT and select the directory isocopsv1 isoc data IODB e Ensure that the transfer mode is either set to ASCII Open the local PC directory C isoc data IODB which contains the extracted Gr files by double clicking the desktop icon Shortcut to IODB Select the txt files and drag them to the isocopsv1 isoc data IODB directory e Confirm that all files have been copied over correctly o cca ccf ccs cdf cpc csf csp css paf pas prf prv sdf vdf e Close down the ftp connection amp log off of the PC Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 Issue 2 Date 11 June 2004 Page 71 Science Operations Centre Facility Operations Manual 5 6 1 4 Extract amp Compare ED information from the new IODB Files 1 Start the PHS application and select the CCS option Import IODB 2 Ifa completely new ED is to be imported added it will be necessary for the user to add it to the list of EDs to be EXTRACTED This is done by adding the mnemonic of the new ED to the list displayed on the left of the CCS Start up screen This list identifies all mnemonics EDs already used by the CCS PHS The addition of any new EDs must be carried out before the extract process is performed Remember to COMMIT the update 3 Select the Extract IODB button and then wait while CCS processes the file
63. dates have been made amp committed the button Refresh Diffs should be pressed Ideally this should confirm that all the necessary JEMX changes have been implemented Unfortunately the newly implemented JEMX HV activation EDs contain within them the same commands parameters of the Data Taking ED Pending implementation of the appropriate Software Change Request the KE amp LEACT_ EDs will not be updated by the JEMX Fix Button 20 The need to add any new EDs to the system would have been discussed amp agreed with MOC well in advance of the new delivery The name of the new EDs mnemonic should have been provided by MOC It should have the form XXXXXXNN where NN is the version number The version number is never entered into the ISOC s list of EDs to be imported as the CCS will always check which version of an ED are available and extract ONLY the highest numbered version Ww Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 i esa Science Operations Centre Issue 2 Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual page 72 3 If CCS flags no more differences proceed to section 5 6 1 6 otherwise proceed to section 5 6 2 List of expected JEMX related ED differences What ED Name Param ID Change Description Changed KEDATA K0022F VTYPE R gt E CATEG N gt C Changed KEDATA K0023F VTYPE R gt E CATEG N gt C Changed LEDATA L0022F VTYPE R gt E CATEG N gt C Changed LED
64. e TAC This procedure describes the steps necessary to save a copy of the AO 02 proposals in PDF format for distribution to the TAC 1 Log in to the Operations Room PC as phsuser1 and start PHS using the desktop shortcut Standard use logins amp passwords are sufficient 2 Select PHS option to View the Proposals 3 Select the following sort criteria o AO number 02 Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 esa Science Operations Centre 155 Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual Page 41 o Category e A o Status Approved o Type General Programme Where X is one of the following Compact Objects Extragalactic Objects Nucleosynthesis Others 4 Select all proposals displayed by left clicking the mouse on the first row and then while holding down the Shift button right clicking the mouse 5 Select the Print options with printer set to Acrobat PDF Writer Click OK 6 Select required directory amp click SAVE Print The full directory path is C lao3cdlao2U X prop Where X is compact extra nucleo other You have to repeat confirm this step for all proposals in the category 7 Repeat from step 3 for the next Category 8 DISMISS the window amp exit PHS 5 1 2 6 2 2 Convert Science Justifications into PDF 1 Login to Unix Station as PHSUSERI 2 Clean up the temporary Justification Directory by deleting all files contained i
65. e the ISOC Log Book noting the ISOC system on which the update was carried out and the IODB version number as recorded displayed by PHS 7 Ifan ED was imported which contained a new ED parameter it will be necessary to define for that ED parameter a set of ISOC default values Refer to section 5 6 3 3 8 In a new ED or a new version of an ED with a new parameter within it has been imported it essential that a set of ISOC default values is defined before it can be used It will also require linking of a new ED to a mode Refer to section 5 6 2 9 That s it The new Event Designators are now installed You should now logout of PHS amp record time date amp version number of new IODB in the Log Book Ww Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 VN esa Science Operations Centre 155 e WS SE Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual page 74 5 6 2 Mode amp ED Definition amp Re configuration The CCS allows an authorised ISOC user the capability of examining and modifying EDs already contained within the ISOC PHS This procedure address the following CCS Functionality s 1 Maintain at ED level certain information 2 Maintain a list set of Modes a Maintain Mode Level Parameters b Maintain Links between Mode amp EDs Allow sorting by either EDs or Modes By manipulation of EDs it is possible to change completely the characteristics of an observation It is essential therefore that any updates th
66. eam members to test new software releases All other software packages are installed on the server The access to software and data is controlled using user accounts access rights groups of the UNIX Operating System and user accounts and protections in Oracle See RD 5 Integral INT SOC DOC 012 esa Science Operations Centre 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual is 4 Overview of ISOC Activities 4 1 Support to the Announcement of Opportunity AO Process 4 1 1 Preparation amp Maintenance of AO Documentation The ISOC is responsible for the production and maintenance of all documentation associated with the Announcement of Opportunity AO The AO documentation contains a detailed description of all information required by an observer and is updated prior to each AO call The AO documentation is prepared by the ISOC Science team based on inputs received from all INTEGRAL parties Instrument teams Mission Scientists ISDC MOC Integral Project Team and the ISOC Prior to each release of the documentation all parties are required to participate in its review The latest version of the documentation is available to the public via the Integral SOC Web site http www rssd esa int Integral isoc html The five main elements of the AO documentation are e Executive Summary AO 1 only Integral Manual Integral Guaranteed Time Instrument Observers Manuals Policies Procedures amp Forms 4 1 1 1 Executive Sum
67. ectness and completeness of the user inputs trigger the simulations and display back the simulations results to the user access to the Change Request system the IWS checks the correctness and completeness of the user inputs Access to this tool is restricted by a password The system automatically stores the submitted Change Request in the CR database at ISOC query the CR data base the system checks the correctness and completeness of the user inputs then perform the submitted query on the CR database and display back the query results to the user display the Proposal Data Public Data the system provides access to the proposal public data The PHS automatically updates these public data at regular interval Integral INT SOC DOC 012 d H esa Science Operations Centre i 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual 15 3 2 2 Proposal Generation Tool PGT The PGT functionality s are Support of the user in the preparation of the proposals via the GUI checking the user entries for valid values at entry time global checking at proposal level This checks the syntax and completeness of the proposal Store and reload a proposal on the local disk access to the TVP and OTE tbc interface with the ISOC the PGT sends the submitted proposal to ISOC Figure 3 1 High level Schematic of the ISOC System 3 2 3 Proposal Handling System PHS The PHS functionality s are reception of the propo
68. ects what will eventually be scheduled This is especially the case where as is the case with Integral observation times are relatively large and hence subject to interruptions to support ToOs The LTP can however be used to provide an accurate prediction on when if it is possible to schedule specific eg Fixed Time and Co ordinated observation and to what degree there may be some over under capacity with respect to predicted sky visibility The LTP is published by ISOC on the web at http www rssd esa int Integral isoc html Throughout the mission regular meetings are held between the Project Scientist amp ISOC Science team to review the status of the LTP and update where appropriate A Short Term Plan STP derived from the LTP is also published by the ISOC on the WEB at http www rssd esa int Integral isoc html This STP which typically cover a period of up to 3 weeks in the future is a reflection of the actual planning status The STP is derived extracted dynamically from the ISOC database every time a web user refreshes the screen 4 6 2 The Nominal Planning Process ISOC 4 6 2 1 Importation of New PSFs On a regular basis at least once per week the Mission Planner check to see if MOC have sent any new or updated Planning Skeleton Files PSF These files normally refer to future as yet unscheduled revolutions but may on rare occasions such as ground station availability change relate to a previ
69. ed in PGT amp OSS whose characteristics are not taken from CCS 75 Table 20 CCS Domain Properties optimised for JEMX 1 or 2 79 Table 21 JEMX 1 amp 2 TM Allocation ISOC CCS defaultst 79 Table 22 IBIS Config for Normal Observations TM sess 83 Table 23 IBIS Config for GPS amp GCDE Observations e eeeeeeeeeeeeee eee eene tenete inn etiatn seo 84 Table 24 IBIS Config for Reduced TM Allocapon eere enne nnne 84 Table 25 List of Preferred OMC FFC pomtings s eenese eere en rae esu CIF axe FR EEn ek xR HE VR E RIF OX ERR EH XA E QU PES 85 Ww Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 KRIS esa Science Operations Centre 155 We um Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual ide 1 1 Introduction 1 1 Scope This ISOC Facility Operations Manual IFOM has been produced in order to provide a single source of reference for all rules protocols and procedures to be used by the Integral SOC Staff from the initial pre launch AO Call Launch 18 months until the end of the mission 1 2 Structure of Document The layout of this document is Chapter 1 Introduction This section includes the scope amp structure of the document along with the lists of Applicable Documents AD Reference Documents RD and Acronyms Chapter 2 ISOC Team Structure Within this section ISOC management amp team structure is presented along with the breakdown of ISOC task
70. ed by a low PICsIT good time Normally one tends to ignore the low PICsIT good times since it was not possible to analyse the data anyway but this might change in the future If there are low good times this should be flagged in kept in mind for the telecon however if there is a low good time for only one pointing of a long observation this can be disregarded Now click on print select proper printer i e pr duplex nb to avoid banner page and select landscape under options The printouts should be filed 5 3 3 Generation amp sending of OCS files Once the ECS files have been imported a new set of OCS files should be generated This is also carried out from the PHS option Import Export Files Care must however be taken to first select the proper AO 01 02 88 number before generating amp sending the OCS gt From within the PHS option Import Export Files select OCS option Generate ALL When the processing is complete select OCS option Send ALL 5 3 4 Preparation for ISOC ISDC Teleconference In order to prepare for the telecom refer to section 2 3 4 one needs to produce obtain an overview of the Good Times This can be done using the PC in the operations room gt Log in to the PC using the same username and password as on the Solaris machine gt Double click on shortcut to observation status xls Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 NN GE esa Science Operations Centre 155 i S Date 11 June 2004
71. ed directory amp click SAVE Print The full directory path is C 1ao3cdlao3 X prop Where X is compact extra nucleo other You have to repeat confirm this step for all proposals in the category 7 Repeat from step 3 for the next Category 8 DISMISS the window amp exit PHS 5 1 2 6 1 2 Convert Science Justifications into PDF 1 Login to Unix Station as PHSUSERI 2 Clean up the temporary Justification Directory by deleting all files contained in directory phsuser1 ao3cd ao3 temp psj 3 Open a window amp go to the directory isoc data PSJ 4 Extract latest version of AO 2justification by typing gt justout 03 home phsuserl1 ao3cd ao3 temp psj 5 1 2 6 1 3 Sort Science Justifications by Category 1 Delete all files contained in the following directories phsuser1 ao3cd ao3 compact just phsuser1 ao3cd ao3 extra just phsuser1 ao3cd ao3 nucleo just phsuser1 ao3cd ao3 other just Ww Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 Gc esa Science Operations Centre 155 M Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual Sage 40 2 Open a window amp go to the directory phsuserl ao3cd ao3 temp psj 3 Execute sequentially each of the commands contained in Table 10 Category Command Compact Objects justsplit a03 ccompact o home phsuserl ao3cd ao3 sV Extragalactic Objects justsplit a03 cextra o home phsuserl ao3cd ao3 sV Nucleosy
72. edule the selected observations in order of their priority The ISOC Mission Planner as part of the selection process defines these scheduling priorities Once the draft schedules are complete the mission planner is offered the opportunity to inspect them If satisfied with the schedules the Mission Planner commands the OSS to complete the POS making process The OSS then generates the required number of POSs inserting where necessary the supplementary information required 4 6 2 4 Sending of POS amp POD Exiting from the OSS scheduling window forces the generation of the planning files During the generation process OSS inserts the OMC command parameter information Once the files are created OSS performs an automatic check on the POS amp ICP and advice if any problems are Ww Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 KRIS esa Science Operations Centre 155 e WS um Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual ide 29 encountered Assuming no errors are detected the final task of the Mission Planner is to transfer the POS ICP to the MOC and the associated POD OPP to the ISDC 4 6 3 Re planning The term re planning is however usually associated with the need to radically change the sequence of planned operations observations in response to a contingency The need for such contingencies re planning of the schedule is foreseen in cases of Instrument Spacecraft Anomaly Declaration of a TOO Unforeseen Plan
73. ence Operations Centre e T e 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual 6 1 MISSION OPERATIONS CENTRE 81 6 2 INTEGRAL SCIENCE DATA CENTRE 81 6 3 SOUTHAMPTON UNIVERSITY ccsssccccccecssssssececececsessnsececececsessaeaesececsessaesececccseseaseaecececseseseaececcceeseneaeceeeeseseneea 81 6 4 INSTRUMENT KE 81 6 5 THE SCIENCE COMMUNITY 5 eet Aven ee et geed eee Ei vid vue D eg Eege dee usse eoe QM re ER texans 81 7 ANNEXES oara eege edd dE ES 82 7 1 NEW SOURCE NAMING CONVENTION 82 7 2 DATA RELEASE GUIDELINES S r CE 82 73 PROJECT SCIENTIST GUIDELINES FOR ISOC MISSION DLANNING 82 TA BASELINE IBIS CONFIGURATIONS FOR USE WITH DIFFERENT TM ALLOCATIONS eene 83 7 5 OMC FFC DCC LIST OF PREFERRED ATTITUDES eee een I eene nnne enne nennen ener nnns enne rna enter seen nnne enn 85 Integral INT SOC DOC 012 esa Science Operations Centre i e 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual vii List of Figures Figure 2 1 Integral Science Operations Team StTUCDUEG ouis sorpie 9p sesso Eege np ase Peng oc ua USER tegt 4 Figure 3 1 High level Schematic of the ISOC System eege deed 12 Figure 4 1 The Integral Help Deg ougee gier rtr pet erba NY NE REA Pe Se AN EEEX EE RFeHR SERA CHE PET Neu PORT FEX EN FER 17 Figure 4 2 Proposal Reception amp Validation usse eet sets arte ta to resuks eta Ue gege Eed eR E ex EE eIR S 20 List of Tables Table 1 Distribution of PEOCEGUIES uter i rtr eu neta ehem Fen nen n Dr RRC
74. ent as stipulated in section 5 2 2 5 At time of sending the planner has the option of specifying if the POS should be sent as an RPOS Exiting using the DISMISS option will abort the planning session Ww Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 ww Eod esa Science Operations Centre 1 e WS Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual ide 53 5 2 4 Visual Checks on Generated Planning files 5 2 4 1 Manual Running of the POS Checker Following the creation of a POS ICP OSS will automatically run the POS Check programme This programme has been designed to check the POS for violation of any POS ICD constraints Should any manual editing of a schedule POS or ICP have taken place it is recommended that the mission planner manually re run the POS Checker programme This can be carried out as follows 1 Log on to the operational system as phsuserl and select the directory isoc data POS generated 2 Enter the command runCheckPOS RRRR VV gt isoc data Summary POS Check RRRR VV txt Where RRRR VV is the revolution amp version of the POS ICP to be checked 5 2 4 2 Creating the POS Summary File The POS summary programme can be used to create a very useful ASCII summary of a POS To generate amp save a POS Summary the user should enter the following UNIX instruction genPOSSummary isoc data POS generated RRRR VV POS gt isoc data Summary POS Summary RRRR VV txt When a new POS has been created for an al
75. ere appropriate routed to the specific ISOC ISDC personnel for further action Integral INT SOC DOC 012 N amp esa Science Operations Centre i e em 11 June 2004 p Facility Operations Manual T 2 5 4 List of Email Accounts The Table 3 provides a summary of the formal email accounts aliases used within the ISOC for the various operational tasks Formal ISOC Email Addresses Email Address Description of Purpose inthelp rssd esa int Integral Help Desk intalert rssd esa int Used to inform ISOC of a potential TOOs isocprop rssd esa int Used by ISOC Proposal Handlers isocsci rssd esa int Alias used contact whole ISOC Science Team isoclib rssd esa int Use to send items mail to ISOC Librarian amp ISOC CCB Secretary Arvind Parmar esa int Mission Manager A Parmar Christoph Winkler esa int Project Scientist C Winkler Lars Hansson esa int Science Operations Manager L Hansson Table 3 List of Formal ISOC Email Addresses 2 5 5 List of Telephone points of Contact The Table 4 provides a summary of the formal telephone numbers used within the ISOC for the various operational tasks List of ISOC Telephone Numbers Telephone Number Description of Purpose 31 71 565 3551 3567 3568 Operations Room 31 71 565 4219 Operations Room Fax machine 31 71 565 6188 Meeting Room F1072 Standard line
76. erformed will be confirmed at the regular ISOC planning meetings and at the weekly ISOC operations meetings Refer to section 2 3 for details The main sequence of events addressed in detail within the following sub sections is Importation of any new planning files from MOC Selection of Observations to be scheduled Generation of the Physical Observation Schedules Manual Checking amp Sending of the Observation Schedules files O Oo OQ UO 5 2 1 1 Importation of any new planning files from MOC Before commencing planning session the Duty Mission Planner should check to see if any new PSFs are available for import The availability of new PSFs can be check form within OSS by selecting the option Process New PSFs or by checking the content of the directory isoc data PSF received In order to import into OSS new PSFs the Duty Mission Planner is required to start OSS select the option Process New PSFs The new PSFs not yet imported will be displayed in the corresponding OSS window Highlighting the desired file and then clicking the Accept PSF Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 Issue 2 Date 11 June 2004 Page 47 Science Operations Centre Facility Operations Manual option performs the actual import The success or otherwise of the import is indicated in the messages bar at the bottom of list window Warning The importing of a new version of a PSF will result in the automatic unscheduling of all observations G
77. ern 10 Comments on data rights and or data requests from other observations also if specifically requested in proposal 11 Comments on fixed time and or TOO 12 Reasons for rejection 13 Other comments Table 8 AO 1 TAC Panel Results Form 5 1 2 5 Returning a Proposal PGT Compatible version to a Proposer This procedure describes the steps necessary to extract section 5 1 2 5 1 a copy of the proposals from PHS in a format suitable for their subsequent re submission via PGT The procedure also includes details of how to transfer the extracted files to the development office network 5 1 2 5 1 Extracting Proposals from PHS 1 Log in to the Operations Room PC or UNIX machine as phsuser1 and start the PHS application Available as a desktop shortcut on PC Ww Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 KRIS esa Science Operations Centre 155 e WS um Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual page 37 The standard user login amp password are sufficient 2 Select PHS option to PHS to PGT Conversion 3 Select the following sort criteria o AO number xx Where xx stands for 01 02 03 etc o Type General Programme 4 Select all required proposals displayed by left clicking the mouse on the first row and then while holding down the Shift button left clicking the mouse and then select option CONVERT 5 The converted proposal is stored in PC directory C isoc data Converted_Proposals On the
78. ervations Changes to amp addition of engineering observation are performed in house by the ISOC team in response to a request from MOC or the IT Changes to amp addition of Calibration observation are also carried out by the ISOC team but in these cases it in response to in conjunction with the appropriate Instrument Team s and ISDC Details of the in flight calibration concept are contained in the In flight Calibration Plan RD 30 For details of the regular OMC FFC DCC calibration see section 5 2 8 1 Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 esa Science Operations Centre 155 S Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual page 27 4 6 Observation Scheduling 4 6 1 Long Term amp Short Term Plan Following the completion of each AO Call and TAC processing the ISOC Mission Planners generate a set of long term plans observing scenarios covering observation period Year of Mission to which the AO relates This set of Long Term Plans is used by the Project Scientist in consultation with the ISWT to determine the final planning strategy to be used by the ISOC The key elements of this strategy are summarised by the Project Scientist in the Mission Planning Guidelines RD 31 provided to the ISOC planners The overall outcome of the strategy is reflected in the long term amp short term plans produced by the ISOC Science team Previous experience has shown that any long term plan produced never fully refl
79. f Contingencies eese eene entren trente e rr enet trennen etre trennen ennt 55 5 2 8 Special Observation Related Procedures eene eene nre 56 5 3 OBSERVATION STATUS MONItORIMG EEN 61 3 3 1 Check for reception of new ECS les 61 3 3 2 Processing ECS files E 61 53 3 3 Generation amp sending of OCS files sese eee eene entrent nr entren tne trente rennes 61 5 3 4 Preparation for ISOC ISDC Teleconference essent eene reete nente nennen enne 61 54 SCIENCE DATA ARCHIVE MANAGEMENT eee ee eene n en een ene nennen nennen nennen nennen nennen nennen 62 5 5 ISOC SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION amp LIBRARIAN TASKS ee eee en een en een enne enne 63 3 9 1 ISOC Librarian Tasks aede detis e de EES 64 3 3 2 ISOC System Administration eb ebrei OPERI EEG UOI beri r ta doves 67 5 6 INSTRUMENT MODE amp EVENT DESIGNATOR MANAGEMENT cene ee een en en en een enne 69 5 6 1 Installation of the new Event Designators eese eene eene enne 69 3 62 Mode amp ED Definition amp Re configuration esses eene trennen rennes 74 53 63 Investigation into Problems with IODB EDs essent rennen nren nere 76 3 64 JEMX Specific Event Designator Activities esses eene nre enne 78 6 EXTERNAL INTERFACES eeeeeeee sees ette eene tuns tn netus tasa tasto seta sets sts sens sss sspovs bosss sspe setas etes sees sts sens enun 81 Integral INT SOC DOC 012 a Sci
80. future correspondence the person who made the original query must quote this reference number The Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 Issue 2 Date 11 June 2004 Page 18 Science Operations Centre Facility Operations Manual answers that are sent back from the ISOC or ISDC to the observers are also logged and tracked using this reference number 4 2 2 The ISOC Science amp Helpdesk Web sites The ISOC maintain a web site dedicated to providing details of the Integral mission and its operations status 4 2 3 Publication of the ISOC Newsletter The Integral Science Operations Centre newsletter is an important medium to inform the community of news concerning INTEGRAL proposals scheduling data processing calibration and science The newsletter is available in electronic PDF format from the ISOC External Web page http www rssd esa int Integral isoc html Registered users proposers are notified by email when a new or updated Newsletter is available on the web Integral INT SOC DOC 012 esa Science Operations Centre S 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual i 4 3 New Proposal Submission amp Processing 4 3 1 The Proposal Reception System Proposals can only be submitted to the ISOC when the Proposal Receiver S W is enabled At the start of each AO or beginning of any period of the approved re submission the ISOC Start Enable the Proposal Receiver S W This S W then remains Enabled until the end
81. hase related The AO number forms part AA field of the Proposal Identifier See RD 11 AO Number Use 00 Identifies proposals submitted for the PV phase 01 02 03 ete Identifies the annual AO Call for Open time proposals and the annual submitted Core Programme proposals 88 Identifies proposals submitted for Calibration amp Engineering activities 99 Identifies proposals submitted for internal ISOC testing Table 5 Agreed Allocation of AO Numbers At the start of each AO call the ISOC must ensure that the AO number used by PHS CCS matches the AO number of the PGT version issued to support a specific AO 1 Logon to PHS amp select CCS option Maintain Domain Properties 2 Scroll down the list of Properties until you get to isoc AO x Where x is a number between 0 amp 9 3 Change the value field of isoc AO 2 to the required AO number Remember to include the leading ZERO 4 Savethe Changes amp exit the task 5 1 2 2 Monitoring of Proposal Status During the period of the AO call a member of the Science team is required to check DAILY the isocprop mail account in order to monitor the number and type Accepted Rejected Mail Error of responses being automatically sent to the proposers Access to the isocprop account is possible from the office network via the astro machine WARNING ONLY one person should access this account at any given time 1 Configure the workstati
82. he ISOC science team checks the contents of the scripts 5 1 4 Calibration amp Engineering Proposal Submission Calibration engineering proposals observations can be entered directly into the Proposal database by any member of the ISOC Science team normally this done by the team member with responsibility for calibration activities The PHS functionality used is available under the option Create Proposal Once the new proposal has been created it can be edited approved amp scheduled just like any other set of observations proposals The capability to copy complete proposals within the proposal database exists Access to this functionality is however restricted to the ISOC Software team and hence not general available to the ISOC Sci Team Copying of full proposals is therefore something which can only be done for special one off reason 5 1 5 Observation Amalgamation Although the PHS software can select candidate observations for amalgamation the final stages of creating an amalgamated observation requires human analysis The procedure here does not address this analysis as it is scientific in nature amp very much source observation objective dependent The man machine interface part of the amalgamation process procedure is 1 Start PHS amp login as normal 2 Under PHS option Amalgamation select sub option Amalgamate In this window it is possible to specify the allowed distance between the sources
83. heduled first and then the Normal Time observations are filled taking into account the various queries When scheduling is done one can review the current schedule by clicking on Display a Revolution see above 21 Check the schedule if there are any observations which are potentially SPIBIS ed If a particular observation is SPIBIS ed unschedule the revolution from that observation and start to re plan from there 22 Exit or Dismiss Exit the scheduling session using Generate Files option in order to save the new schedule and create the POS ICP POD and OPP or Exit using the DISMISS option will abort the planning session Exit the PHS application 1359 5 2 1 4 Manual Checking amp Sending of the Observation Schedules files 1 Check the POS produced for the revolutions scheduled Refer to section 5 2 4 2 If POS are deemed OK Enter PHS and send the POSs ICP to MOC using the OSS option Send POS ICP Integral INT SOC DOC 012 f esa Science Operations Centre i e S 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual 50 3 After sending the POSs ICPs the associated POD OPPs should be sent to ISDC using the OSS option Send POD amp OPP 4 After approximately 3 minutes check the directories isoc data POS sent and isoc data POD sent to confirm that the POS ICP amp POD OPP have been sent i e check if the files appear in these directories Note Copies of all files sent via IFTS are copied b
84. hen creates and submits to PHS the new TOO proposal Note In order to minimise the time required to Ww Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 VN esa Science Operations Centre 155 e WK umm Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual page 24 generate a new Proposal observation the ISOC maintain some generic TOO templates The proposal is assigned type TOO non TAC approved Assuming the data has been entered correctly the proposer of the TOO should receive from PHS notification that his proposal has been VALIDATED amp placed in the proposal DataBase e Once the completed proposal has been checked by the Project Scientist its status is updated to APPROVED At the same time the ISOC Proposal handler inserts the additional post TAC field values i e Approved Duration Priority etc e With the approved proposal now in the database the ISOC Mission Planner can initiate the appropriate re plan of the ongoing schedule The process for scheduling an observation resulting from the declaration of a TOO is addressed in sections 4 6 3 and 5 2 2 Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 esa Science Operations Centre S Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual gt gp 25 4 5 Proposal Maintenance 4 5 1 Amalgamation of Open Time Observations As part of the AO process the ISOC prepare for the TAC a list of possible proposed Observations that could be amalgamated These lists of pote
85. iles etc e Maintain SMM Group Operational procedures 2 2 2 2 Software Maintenance Engineers The two Software Engineers are be responsible for the maintenance of the Proposal Handling Software Observation Scheduling Software ISOC Archive System Software Simulator Facilities running at ISOC Operations related supporting software Some PI Instrument Team software is installed and running within the ISOC and hence the PI Instrument Teams are required to support the ISOC in its maintenance For example the OMC Catalogue amp it s associated extraction software Similarly the MOC are required to maintain the software provided by them i e Visibility Tools Slew Time Predictor etc The size of the Integral team will be reduced when SOC activities are transferred from ESTEC to VILSPA Ww Integral INT SOC DOC 012 eS a Science Operations Centre i e xw S 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual B 2 3 Regular Meetings amp Teleconferences 2 3 1 ISOC Weekly Operations Meeting The ISOC Weekly Operations Meeting is normally expected to take place every Wednesday 10 30 The standard agenda for these meetings is outlined in Table 2 The participants of the meeting shall include representatives of all ISOC groups The Minutes of the meeting shall be distributed to all ISOC staff Head SCI SD SGS Co ordinator ISOC Weekly Operations Meeting Agenda 1 Previous minutes 2 Problem Areas 3 System Status 4 Observ
86. ion Operations Centre ESOC Mission Planning Message Files Observation Completion Status Operational Ground Segment MOC amp Ground Stations Observation Scheduler System ISOC Planning System Observation Time Estimator Proposal Administrative Data Payload Calibration Working Group Proposal Generation Tool Proposal Handling System Planning amp Observation Data Preferred Observation Sequence Planning Skeleton File ISWT nominated CP Research Scientist SCience Operations Manager ISOC Operations Manager Integral SOC Facility Operations Manual This Document Science Ground Segment ISOC amp ISDC Science Ground Segment Manager Spacecraft Operations Manager Spacecraft Controller ESOC Slew Time Predictor Software Time Allocation Committee To Be Confirmed To Be Determined To be Written Timeline Summary Technical Note Target Of Opportunity Target Visibility Predictor INT SOC DOC 012 2 11 June 2004 3 Integral INT SOC DOC 012 2 11 June 2004 4 Science Operations Centre Facility Operations Manual 2 ISOC Team Structure amp Distribution of Tasks Within the ISOC all activities are conducted under the guidance of the Integral Project Scientist The Project Scientist being responsible for ensuring that the Integral SGS endeavours to achieve the scientific objectives as laid down in the Science Management Plan AD 1 The Project Scientist delegates the day to day operations of the ISO
87. ion as to why the changes are necessary Only after analysing the request including possible consultation with the observer the Help Desk refers the matter to the Project Scientist If the Project Scientist approves the request a member of the ISOC Science team then carry out the approved modifications to the proposal and send a copy of the modified proposal back to the observer proposer for his her confirmation During the period between the requested update and the reception acknowledgement from by the Proposers indicating his acceptance of the changes implemented the scheduling of the proposal observation is blocked 4 5 4 Modification of the Core Programme The ISOC team only perform modification to the Core Programme observations at the request of the Project Scientist Due to the nature of the implementation of the GPS amp GCDE proposals observation within PHS changes to their structure amp observing strategies may require the support of the ISOC S W maintenance team 7 t is foreseen that in a future version v10 5 of PHS that the updating of many of these observation characteristics will be possible without S W team support Integral INT SOC DOC 012 2 11 June 2004 26 Science Operations Centre Facility Operations Manual 4 5 5 Updating of Calibration amp Engineering Observations Throughout the mission there is the need to regularly add new and modify existing Calibration amp Engineering obs
88. istics are not taken from CCS Ww Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 ww Eod esa Science Operations Centre 1 e e WS Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual page 76 5 6 3 Investigation into Problems with IODB EDs This section should only be followed if differences were detected during the importation process other than those identified in section 5 6 1 5 Select the various options ED Differences Parameter Alias Differences Parameter Differences Affected Observations amp Range Differences and print any differences detected 5 6 3 1 New EDs in the ED Difference window The only new EDs which should appear in this window should be those added to the list of EDs to be extracted New EDs can always be imported into PHS CCS without concern as they are not associated with any ISOC Mode Observation After the import process is complete the user should enter the required ISOC characteristics which are to be associated with it See section 5 6 2 1 5 6 3 2 ED has been deleted The deletion of an ED by MOC is not expected to take place Should this however happen the removal of an ED form the IODB will on import also remove the ED from CCS Provided that is that the ED is not identified as being used in any observations In order to avoid any inconsistencies it is recommended that MOC should never delete remove an ED from the system If necessary a new one should be made 5 6 3 3 Parameters Added Deleted to from
89. ity Operations Manual page 45 5 1 6 2 Delete an entry in the OMC Delta Catalogue 1 3 4 5 6 7 9 Start PHS amp login as normal Under PHS option CCS select sub option Edit OMC Delta Catalogue In the new pop up menu window select the row to be deleted Select DELETE from the list of options Select SAVE and repeat from step 3 for each source to be removed The updated Extension Catalogue is stored in the directory file isoc data OMC Catalogue OMC_CAT_V0002_ext ASCIT Print the new updated list amp select DISMISS to close the window Exit PHS Record update in the Log Book Send an email to the ISOC CCB isoclib rssd esa int with copy to isdc_shift obs unige ch informing them that the updates have been made A copy of the updated OMC CAT V0002 ext ASCII file should be attached Delete does not physically remove the entry from the table It merely updates a flag in the table which prevents the entry from being used by the OMCPS amp displayed in the editor Ww Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 wi esa Science Operations Centre 155 WS um Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual page 46 5 2 Observation Scheduling An overview of scheduling process and the tasks to be performed are provided in section 4 6 This section aim is to provide information to at least one level deeper Due to the high degree of flexibility available to the Mission Planner it c
90. k on the template message it comes up ready to be sent All you need to do is attach the Proposal stored on the CDROM and enter the proposer e mail address 4 Reply to the message appending the converted proposal with copy to inthelp rssd esa int 5 1 2 6 Creation of the CD with copy of Proposals for the TAC For AO 3 the following information was required to be transferred to the CD A0 3 Proposals including Science Justifications A0 2 Proposals with Grade A observations still to be completed A0 3 Documentation as maintained on the ISOC AO Website Table 9 provides details of where the various AO proposal details are stored on the CD ROM Category Location AO 2 Compact Objects c ao3cd ao2 compact AO 2 Extragalactic Objects c ao3cd ao2 extra AO 2 Nucleosynthesis c ao3cd ao2 nucleo AO 2 Others c ao3cd ao2 others AO 3 Compact Objects c ao3cd ao3 compact AO 3 Extragalactic Objects c ao3cd ao3 extra AO 3 Nucleosynthesis c ao3cd ao3 nucleo AO 3 Others c ao3cd ao3 others Table 9 Location of Proposals on the CD Access to the data has been made easy via a single index html file The lower level html page displayed the proposals by AO amp category The list per category had two hyperlinks per proposal P amp J Selecting P takes you to the proposal details as stored within the ISOC Proposal database and the selection of
91. le from within OSS If it is concluded that the required PSFs are not already accepted the procedure in section 0 should be performed to import them 1 Start PHS and select OSS option View Schedule revolution 2 Enter the Start and End revolution number one intends to schedule and click on Schedule these revolutions Explanation of the top part of the session window above Selection statement 3 Start End Revolution The start and end revolution number is displayed 4 Display a Revolution One can display a single particular revolution 5 More windows can be opened to display the same or another revolution 6 Open a saved Set Save this Set One can open a saved set or save a set of SOL expressions that were entered in the Selection statement part of the session window The 8 hours is an agreed number introduced to allow MOC time to respond to the RPOS It is not a physical constraint If MOC are prepared forewarned a new timeline can be created amp introduced in 2 3 hours Although technically not an RPOS re plan files with a start time that is outside of the normal working week should also be submitted as an RPOS Ww Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 VN esa Science Operations Centre 155 e NS um Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual Page 48 DBOB One can choose between a skybin width and height of 10x10 default and 2x2 The 10 by 10 degrees is also used by Starmap Using 2
92. mary This gives a short summary of the spacecraft and instrument capabilities the core programme and general programme information 1 e amount of available time the proposal submission process the time allocation process data rights and a short overview of the call documentation 4 1 1 2 INTEGRAL Manual This document gives the overview of the mission aspects of INTEGRAL orbit viewing constraints pointing etc and gives detailed information on the INTEGRAL ground segment including proposal submission proposal handling mission planning observation execution and changes in the schedule TOO handling calibration and data processing Details on the different source types for INTEGRAL e g transients TOOs etc should be given as well as all special observing modes available to the observer dithering possibilities fixed time observations etc 4 1 1 3 INTEGRAL Guaranteed Time This document gives a detailed description of the guaranteed time programme on INTEGRAL Including the GPS GCDE and pointed observations including TOO follow up observations It includes clear scientific goals of all parts of the GT in order to allow observers to propose pointed observations on targets that may be in the GPS or GCDE The document should give enough information for the observer and the TAC to decide whether open time observations are duplicating the GT or not Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 Issue 2 Date 11 June 2004 Page
93. n directory phsuser1 ao3cd ao2 temp psj 3 Open a window amp go to the directory isoc data PSJ 4 Extract latest version of AO 2 justification by typing gt justout 02 home phsuser l ao3cd aoZ temp psj 5 1 2 6 2 3 Sort Science Justifications by Category 4 Delete all files contained in the following directories phsuser1 ao3cd ao2 compact just phsuser1 ao3cd aoZ extra just phsuser1 ao3cd ao2 nucleo just phsuser 1 ao3cd ao2 other just 5 Open a window amp go to the directory phsuser1 ao3cd ao2 temp psj 6 Execute sequentially each of the commands contained in Table 12 Category Command Compact Objects justsplit a02 ccompact o home phsuser1 ao3cd ao2 p1 sA S M Extragalactic Objects justsplit a02 cextra o home phsuserl ao3cd ao2 p1 sA S M Nucleosynthesis justsplit a02 cnucleo o home phsuserl1 ao3cd ao2 p1 sA S M Others justsplit a02 cother o home phsuser1 ao3cd ao2 p1 sA S M Table 12 Commands to Sort AO 2 Science Justifications Where justsplit is the name of the script to be run and the other fields are as defined in Table 11 5 1 2 6 2 4 Copy Save all Science Justifications Ww Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 KRIS asa Science Operations Centre 155 e WS um Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual page 42 1 Start WS FTP Pro shortcut ICON is on desktop 2 Confirm that the Pop up screen stipulates HOST iso
94. n the opening of a window called CD for AO 03 The various folders highlighted in this window are linked to the File Browser window directory C ao3cd 2 Under menu option File select the sub option Write CD 3 Wait for confirmation that the burning process is complete 4 Eject CD and repeat from step 1 if additional CDs are to be created 5 Log out of NERO This procedure needs to be revised so that it uses the CD rewriter on the new Ops Server Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 Issue 2 Date 11 June 2004 Page 43 Science Operations Centre Facility Operations Manual 5 1 3 Core Programme Submission 5 1 3 1 Pointed Staring amp Dither Observations The responsibility for entering of the Core Programme pointed observations into the proposal database is formally that of the ISWT In practice the task is performed by members of the ISOC Science Team under the direction of the Project Scientist After entering the proposals observations the ISOC scientist provide back to the Project Scientist a copy of the information submitted The Project Scientist then forward the information to the appropriate ISWT nominated Research Scientists R Sci 5 1 3 2 GPS amp GCDE GPS amp GCDE observations are generated and entered into the Proposal Database using software scripts built amp maintained by the software team To ensure compliance with the scientific requirements of the Core Programme RD 22 t
95. nder Start Point of GCDE e When one has changed the necessary records COMMIT it and DISMISS Exit PHS The modified GCDE scan can now be called up in OSS Ww Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 ww Eod esa Science Operations Centre 755 S e WSs Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual ide 60 5 2 8 4 Managing the OBT Wrap Round Approximately ever 193 days the On board time as transmitted in the Broadcast packet will be observed by the instruments to wrap round If this apparent wrapping round of the OBT were to occur while IBIS is in either Standard or Polarimetry mode the onboard Histograms process would freeze Autonomous unfreezing will only take place when if the instrument detects a valid slew pointing transition sequence of events In the case where INTEGRAL is dithering and the wrap round takes place during a pointing any histogram s being generated will be corrupted In the case of a long staring observation the corruption of the histograms process would lead to the loss of all histograms that would have been generated during the long pointing It is therefore important that ISOC avoid scheduling a long staring observation when wrap round is expected to occur To do this the ISOC should schedule a fixed time Engineering Observation with a duration of approximately 15 minutes centred on the predicted wrap round time The MOC are required to advice the ISOC as part of the regular telecon meeting when the
96. ned Ground Station Outage The details of the re plan process are dependent on the reason the re plan is being performed For example if sufficient advanced warning is available about the change in ground stations then a complete new set of planning files could be required i e from PSF through to Timeline If the re plan has to be performed in response to a spacecraft or instrument anomaly the on going schedule may well have to be stopped and a new set of planning files generated once the problem has been solved The scheduling of a TOO related observation is only be performed by the ISOC when explicitly authorised by the Project Scientist As part of this instruction declaration the Project Scientist makes the final decision as to where the ongoing or pre planned sequence of observations is to be interrupted and subsequently resumed The nominal sequence of events associated with a re plan is e Importing of new PSFs If requested to do so by MOC e De commit the appropriate observations exposures from the existing schedules if PSF was not imported e Forces selection of new observation as part of the re planning process e Generation of the new Revolution s files e Send new planning files to MOC amp ISDC Further details can be found in section 5 2 2 4 7 Observation Tracking The status of an observation can be tracked at each stage of the planning process Prior to the execution of the schedule it is possible by examining
97. ng on the overall mission operations ISOC participation is expected to depend heavily on the agenda of items to be discussed 2 4 4 AO Co ordination Meetings These meetings are held prior to amp during each AO Call They are chaired by the Project Scientist or his nominated scientific deputy and are be attended by all member of the ISOC Science Team The objective of these meetings is to co ordinate amp monitor the progress of an AO call and to identify amp correct potential problems 2 5 ISOC Formal Contact Persons points 2 5 1 Operational Requests amp Overall Management The official contact point within the ISOC for all operational matters is the Science Operations Manager SCOM or his her nominated representative The SCOM shall be provided with a mobile phone so that he she can be contact at anytime Refer to Table 3 amp Table 4 2 5 2 TOO Alerts The ISOC have established a dedicated ALERT email address intalert rsd esa int to be used by all external parties to notify the ISOC that they have identified a potential TOO This email address is connected to the mobile phone SMS system in order to bring the alert to the attention of the Project Scientist SCOM and Duty Scientist 2 5 3 All other Queries All non time critical queries amp question relating to Integral or submitted proposal should be routed to the Integral Help Desk inthelp rssd esa int These questions reviewed by the Help Desk Duty Scientist and wh
98. ng the ISDC generated Exposure Completion Status ECS files are be imported into the ISOC system and a new set of Observation Completion Status OCS files are generate and dispatched to ISDC These OCS reflect the planning performed to date 2 3 5 Bi Weekly Ground Segment Teleconference Every 2 3 weeks a 3 centre teleconference MOC ISOC amp ISDC take place These teleconferences are coordinated amp chaired by the SGS Co ordinator The actual day on which the meeting takes place is not important but it is beneficial it takes place towards the end of a week i e After the weekly ISOC meeting Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 esa Science Operations Centre 155 S Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual ide 9 2 4 Other Meetings 2 4 1 Integral Science Working Group Meeting These meetings are held on a schedule to be defined by the Project Scientist The SCOM or his nominated deputy represents the ISOC 2 4 2 Ground Segment Configuration Control Board Meetings These meetings are held as required The location of the meeting is expected to alternate between the 3 centres The Mission Manager is expected to chair these meetings 2 4 3 Ground Segment Co ordination Meetings These meetings involving the three Ground Segment Centres and the four Instrument Teams are held approximately every 3 months Co ordinated amp chaired by the SGS Co ordinator they provide the main forum for monitoring amp reporti
99. nistration 5 5 2 1 Starting amp Stopping of the PHS Receiver Task For the duration of an AO Call the PHS Receiver Task must be up amp running if proposers are to be able to submit a proposal Just prior to the start of each AO the SCOM must request authorise the System Administrator to START this task Similarly at the end of an AO Call the SCOM will request the System Administrator to STOP this Task Requests to start amp stop the task can also be made out side of the AO periods for the odd occasion that a proposer has been authorised to re submit a proposal For details of how this should be done the reader should ref to the ISOC Uplink SUM RD 26 5 5 2 2 Status Check of the External Interface Machine External Communications Machine ECM status to be checked daily by the ISOC Librarian At regular intervals during each day the processCheckMonitor task sends an email report containing any message alerts to the Software Maintenance Team using the alias isocsmm astro esa int The tasks checked on the ECM are e PRV Proposal Receiver e MLR Mailer e IFTS ISOC ISDC MOC File transfer If any of the tasks indicate a problem or the emails are no longer being received the ISOC Librarian will log the occurrence of the error and initiate an investigation recover Full details amp the applicable procedures can be found in the ISOC Uplink SUM RD 26 5 5 2 3 Status Check of the Operational Server On a daily
100. ns the zipped version of the file the MS Access database mdb files should be extracted from it The mdb should be placed in the directory C lisoc data IODB The extracted MS Access file should be called Event Designator 2K dd mm yy mdb 5 6 1 2 2 Extract ED Characteristics from the ED Browser 1 Open the ED Browser Database by double clicking on Event Designator 2K dd mm yy mdb Blank CD ROMs are available from SD Software support Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 NN GE esa Science Operations Centre 155 S Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual page 70 2 Verify that the IODB version reference on the ED Browser Viewer start up screen window is in agreement with the release note sent by MOC The file naming convention is IODB XX vvvv dd mm yy Where IODB Database name XX Relevant SDB version number vvvv IODB running version number Increments with each IMCS propagation dd mm yy Release dat 3 Export the files required by CCS o Set the Import Export directory path to C isoc data IODB o Select the Option Export Database amp confirm Export 4 When Job Complete is indicated confirm that the following 14 txt files have been inserted in the directory C isoc data IODB o cca ccf ccs cdf cpc csf csp css paf pas prf prv sdf vdf 5 6 1 3 Copy files from PC to ISOCOPSVI The extracted files should now be copied via FTP to the directory isocopsvl isoc
101. nthesis justsplit a03 cnucleo o home phsuser1 ao3cd ao3 sV Others justsplit a03 cother o home phsuser1 ao3cd ao3 sV Table 10 Commands to Sort AO 3 Science Justifications Where justsplit is the name of the script to be run and the other fields are as defined in Table 11 AO Number Leading two digits of file name Category compact extra nucleo other Directory Destination directory for the extracted files Status Optional V Validated A Approved S Scheduled M Amalgamated Priority Optional Assigned Priority 1 A 2 B etc ro RIO Q x Table 11 Definition of parameters in justsplit script 5 1 2 6 1 4 Copy Save all Science Justification 1 Start WS FTP Pro shortcut ICON is on desktop 2 Confirm that the Pop up screen stipulates HOST isocopsv1 USER Identifier phsuser 3 Click the option Connect 4 In the left hand window Local System change the directory to point to C ao3cd ao3 X Where X is compact extra nucleo other 5 In the right hand window Remote System change the directory to point to phsuser1 ao3cd a03 X 6 Select and drag the just folder on the Remote system to the local system 7 Repeat for all four categories 8 Log out of WS_FTP Pro 5 1 2 6 2 Selection of AO 02 Proposals 5 1 2 6 2 1 Copy Save AO 02 Proposal as PDF files for th
102. ntial amalgamated observations are forwarded to the TAC Details of the amalgamation requirements rules are provided in the ISOC URD RD 2 It is possible for the ISOC to set a flag in PHS to INHIBIT the observations from a specific proposal from being considered for amalgamation should such a need be justified After taking into consideration any recommendations made by the TAC the ISOC staff contact the PI advising them if any observation in their proposal has been recommended for amalgamation The ISOC staff will then update the Proposal Observation database accordingly 4 5 2 Sending of Proposal amp Observation Related Data to ISDC Following the completion of the AO process the ISOC Science Team generate and send to the ISDC the Proposal Administrative Data PAD Initial Observation Parameters IOP and the TOO Justification Trigger Criteria Due to the fact that Proposal Observation Database is updated between AOs as TOO Calibration amp Engineering Observations etc are added modified the ISOC are required to send new versions of the PAD IOP and TOO Justifications to the ISDC RD 11 4 5 3 Modification of an Open Time Proposal outside of the AO period Once the AO Call has been deemed closed by the Project Scientist any observer wishing to update modify a proposal must first contact the ISOC Help Desk The observer is required to provide his her Proposal IDs the details of the changes to be made along with the justificat
103. of the AO submission period The period during which the Receiver is enabled is identified in the AO data package 4 3 2 Open Time Proposals submitted as part of the AO TAC Process The vast majority of proposal requests for Integral Observing Time come in response to the Announcements of Opportunities AO to be made prior to and during the mission A brief overview of how such proposals are handled by the ISOC is given below 4 3 2 1 The Submission of an Open Time Proposal as part of an AO Before submitting a proposal a Proposer must first download and install the ISOC PGT software This S W is available from the ISOC Operational Web site The proposer is then free to create his her proposals Before submitting the proposal the proposer should attach his her Scientific Justification in the format identified in the AO documentation On a rare occasion and only after approval from the Help Desk a science justification may be submitted via ftp On reception of a proposal the ISOC Proposal Handling System PHS checks its validity against several predefined criteria and If no errors are detected e The proposal is flagged as VALIDATED and placed in the Proposal Database with its status set to VALIDATED e Anautomatic task sends an Email to the Proposer advising him her that the proposal has been successfully received amp validated The Email also contains the automatically generated Proposal ID assigned to this proposal This Propos
104. ograms S8 Integration Time 20 packets less G8829 E raw 2 n 100 Kev PPM PICSIT Energy Lower Threshold G8830 E raw 196 i 10192 Kev PPM PICSIT Energy Upper Threshold G8784 E raw 75 G0803 1 4687 5 nsec ISGRI Rise Time Upper Threshold 5 packets less G8602 R G0805 1 5000 Kev Compton Selection Energy 10 packets less G8867 R G0885 1 0 9455 cos Compton Selection Cosine of the angle inside which an event is classified as Compton Table 26 IBIS Config for Reduced TM Allocation Ww Integral INT SOC DOC 012 ech i 2 E Science Operations Centre N ess esa P S 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual 85 7 5 OMC FFC DCC list of preferred Attitudes In support of the OMC FFC DCC the OMC team have specified a preferred set of attitudes When an OMC FFC DCC is schedule the attitude used pointing number should be contained in the Proposal title The list of preferred attitudes is given in Table 27 List of OMC FFC pointings Valid from 25 April 2003 Nr RA DEC L ecl B ecl L gal B gal Prior Comment i 44 4 16 5 38 26 e341 99 2199 29 5996 1 2 10 8 34 8 393 08 35 79 345 27 82 123 2 3 178 3 28 4 166 55 298 29 202 98 77 24 3 4 195 3 B 191 41 12 99 309498 69 54 4 3 15x6 SKS te OS e20 B55 136 14 e 2 6 186 1 45 0 163 20 42 74
105. on at http www rssd esa int Integral isoc html 7 2 Data Release Guidelines Refer to RD 21 7 3 Project Scientist Guidelines for ISOC Mission Planning Refer to RD 31 le Integral INT SOC DOC 012 amp esa Science Operations Centre e S 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual D 7 4 Baseline IBIS Configurations for use with different TM Allocations Unless requested agreed otherwise with the IBIS PI and MOC the ISOC should always use one of the following IBIS configurations Refer to Table 24 Table 25 and Table 26 For Normal Observations nominal TM allocation for IBIS 134 pkt Param veis ii TC NP Units Comments Engineering Default G8609 R G0813 1 1750 sec Spectral Imaging Histograms S6 amp S7 Integration Time G8601 R G0804 1 2000 Kev ISGRI Energy Upper Threshold G8819 E raw 1 G0836 20 1 95 msec Spectral Timing Histograms S8 Integration Time G8829 E raw 2 ui 100 Kev PPM PICSIT Energy Lower Threshold G8830 E raw 196 li 10192 Kev PPM PICSIT Energy Upper Threshold G8784 E raw 90 G0803 1 5625 nsec ISGRI Rise Time Upper Threshold G8602 R G0805 1 0 Kev Compton Selection Energy above which the selection is applied for energy below no selection rule is applied G8867 R G0885 A 0 9455 cos Compton Selection Cosine of the angle inside which an event i
106. ons for a telnet session to astro Type xhost astro The need for this step depends on the user s workstation set up Telnet to astro esa int Login as isocprop Confirm Configure Display settings echo SDISPLAY Start Netscape mail application and check the various mail boxes see Table 6 If there are any errors see section 5 1 2 2 1 and take appropriate recovery action 6 When finished exit both Netscape amp the isocprop account on the astro machine S de d r3 Integral INT SOC DOC 012 esa Science Operations Centre 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual 34 5 1 2 2 1 Analysis of Mail Box messages Emails in the PASSES VALIDATED mailbox are of interest only for statistics whereas emails in the FAILED VALIDATION mailbox should be check to see if there are any consistent reasons as to why proposals are being rejected by PHS One reason for proposals to be rejected could be misinterpretation by the Proposer of the AO supporting documentation Another reason could be a discrepancy between the checks carried out by PGT and those performed by PHS Mail Box Content PASSED VALIDATED Copy of all Validated Proposal Acknowledgements Emails FAILED VALIDATION Copy ofall Rejected Proposal Acknowledgements Emails ERROR Copy of all Emails Return Address Errors Table 6 Mail Boxes used by isocprop account Emails in the ERROR mailbox would indicate that the Mailer Task
107. oup Meeting esses eene eene ener netten entree 9 2 4 Ground Segment Configuration Control Board Meeting 9 2 4 3 Ground Segment Co ordination Meetings 9 244 AQCo ordination Meelings ehe tete dee tette nean ttem beste estet pee 9 2 5 ISOC FORMAL CONTACT PERSONS POINTS eese nemen mener mene nre KEERA nens 9 2 5 1 Operational Requests amp Overall Management 9 2 9325 le EE 9 23 3 UN EO m 9 2 5 4 Lier of Email Accounts esses seen enne tenete n E ERTSE ea TR EEEO ni EERTE EREE ERT E EO 10 2 5 5 List of Telephone points of Conter 10 3 JEHEJISOG SYSEEM unn beiir teet ins Peee bees y PoHaD CE PER UB PESE DR PERUE SEES PE vet eacaasevestetessecencsscduceses HO Up HR RD Do Srbo EAR ER RETE UR RUE 11 3 1 SYSTEM OVERVIEW T M n 11 3 2 THE ISOC CORE SYSTEM e 11 324 ASOC WWW System UWS as e ER E EE NE TE Ahad pean E ee eee NA ae 1l 3 222 Proposal Generation Tool PGT 2 eic d a rice cho ag oben Elec Coe hosed ch kang DERE UE CERES EE 12 3 23 Proposal Handling System PHS oriee akea eee aer eere eere eee etes deed neg 12 3 2 4 Observation Scheduling System ON 13 3 2 5 Configuration Control Subsystem CCS 13 3 2 6 ISOC Simulations Facilities sss ee nennen nennen enne nene nnne 13 3 3 ISOC ARCHIVE AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM EEN 14 34 ISOC NETWORK CONFIGURATION 6 vtessees stesse esten ss eistis ese bera
108. oups as the tasks allocated to the PHCS amp OS groups are shared between the ISOC scientists Ww Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 WW esa Science Operations Centre 155 e h Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual ide 5 2 2 Distribution of Tasks within the ISOC 22 1 The ISOC Science Team The ISOC Science Team consists of 5 full time equivalents fte astronomers scientist A summary of the duties amp tasks assigned to the Science team is contained in sections 2 2 1 1 to 2 2 1 3 For all key tasks identified in sections 2 2 1 1 to 2 2 1 3 the Project Scientist has nominate a member of the Science Team as the responsible For example a different member of the team may be assigned overall responsibility for the Helpdesk Support Instrument Calibrations Observations Scheduling Planning and Archive activities 2 2 1 1 Proposal Handling amp Community Support Tasks The Tasks to be performed by the Science Team in support of Proposal Handling amp Community Support are Maintenance of AO related documentation Support to Community with respect to AO related queries Support to TAC with respect to AO General Programme proposals Support to ISWT with respect to Core Programme proposals Reviewing and maintenance of all accepted proposals to ensure that they remain compatible with the measured instrument performances e Utilisation of the Integral SOC Simulation facilities in support of e proposal and TOO validation
109. ously scheduled but not yet executed one If the PSFs sent are updates to existing one the MOC normal contact the planners via email The planners then use the Observation Scheduling System OSS to import these PSFs 4 6 2 2 Selection of the Observations to be scheduled Based on the Long Term Plan approved by the Project Scientist the Duty Mission Planner using the Observation Scheduling System OSS select the areas of the sky called Sky Bins where it is possible to schedule observations These Sky Bins being selected on user definable criteria such as Sky Bin visible for greater than Sky Bin visible in a specific revolution week or month etc 4 6 2 2 1 Identification of potential observations Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 Issue 2 Date 11 June 2004 Page 28 Science Operations Centre Facility Operations Manual Once the appropriate available Sky Bins have been identified the Mission Planner searchs the Proposal Observation Database using one or more user definable sets of search criteria for suitable potential observations to cover the period s defined in the Sky Bins The sort selection criteria cover things like Scientific Priority Observation Type Fixed Time Calibration etc Sky Bin Location Instruments to be used If part of an observation has already been observed etc Normally much of this effort is not be required as the primary source for which observations are to s
110. place also the dataset of the short observation should be distributed 5 4 Science Data Archive Management TBW Background information can however be found in the following documents Archive Software Joint Development Plan RD 31 SOC ISDC Interactions Document AD 7 ISOC ISDC ICD RD 11 Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 NN esa Science Operations Centre 155 i S Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual Pise 63 5 5 ISOC System Administration amp Librarian Tasks In line with RD 24 amp RD 34 all external deliveries or notifications that an external delivery is available should be routed to the ISOC Librarian for action The email address of the ISOC Librarian is given in Table 3 and RD 24 After received the delivery note notification the ISOC librarian fetches if appropriate the applicable item s and place them in a dedicated software directory isoclib deliveries xxxx Details of the delivery note are also circulated to all ISOC personnel Depending on the nature of the delivery software and or data item a member of the Software and or Science team inspect the new delivery and report their findings to the Delivery Review board which is triggered by the ISOC Librarian s email In the case of the ISOC due to the small size of the team the Configuration Control Board CCB performs the tasks of the DRB During the CCB the decision as to how to proceed with the deliver is taken That decision
111. rations Manual ide 81 6 External Interfaces 6 1 Mission Operations Centre Refer to the Integral Flight Operations Plan Volume 2 Book 1 amp Volume 3 Book 1 AD 6 6 2 Integral Science Data Centre Refer to the ISOC ISDC Interactions Document AD 7 and the ISOC ISDC ICD RD 11 6 3 Southampton University The ISOC will interface with Southampton University in connect with the maintenance of the Mass Model Observation Time Estimator OTE and the Instrument Parameter Validator IPV 6 4 Instrument Teams With the exception of OMC for the deliver or the OMC Pointing S W and the OMC catalogue the interactions to the four instrument teams will normally be managed via meetings of the IGSCCB ISWT and IT status consortia Additional interactions are expected to take place via ISOC participation in the regular ISDC Instrument Team meetings and the proposed IGS Co ordination meetings RD 24 contains details of all deliveries amp associated interactions between the ISOC and the instrument teams The ISOC OMC interface is also addressed in RD 12 6 5 The Science Community This interface is handled via the implementation of the Integral ISOC Web based http www rssd esa int Integral isoc html Help Desk Refer to section 4 2 1 Integral INT SOC DOC 012 eS a Science Operations Centre 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual 82 7 Annexes 7 1 New Source Naming Convention Refer to the AO Documentati
112. ready existing revolution for example a TOO it is recommended that the new POS Summary be compared with the old one This can be done by using the UNIX DIFF command When the diff is performed on two version of the POS Summary the two files should be identical up to the point where the RWB amp slew to the TOO have been scheduled The files should also confirm that the GSHOs have not been moved Both of these checks are critical in the case of an RPOS otherwise MOC may well reject the planning files If differences are detected in the two files these differences should be brought to the attention of the MOC before their submission 5 2 5 Checking the Planning Messages Following the submission of the POS amp ICP and prior to the reception of the Timeline Summary the ISOC expect to receive the following four different message types e EPOS Validation Message e APF Validation Message e Cross Validation Message e Timeline Generation Message The header of these messages see RD 11 will contain an indication of whether that part of the Timeline generation process has been successful or not the ISOC Mission Planner can there monitor the progressive generation of the Timeline by MOC Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 Issue 2 Date 11 June 2004 Page 54 Science Operations Centre Facility Operations Manual The reception of a message indicating the failure of a specific part of the generation sequence especially EPOS amp
113. requests is controlled by password The astronomers are able to access the Observation Time Estimator and the Target Visibility Tool Proposal Generation Tool PGT PGT can be downloaded from the WWW on the user local machine All astronomers are required to use the PGT to prepare and submit their proposals Proposal Handling System PHS This system is running at ISOC only and used by the ISOC Proposal Handlers to mainly maintain the ISOC Mission DataBase containing the proposals and observations data Observation Scheduling System OSS This system is running at ISOC only and used by the Mission Planners to schedule observations Configuration Control Subsystem CCS This system is only running at ISOC and used by the ISOC Configuration Controller to maintain and update the ISOC Configurable Parameters ISOC Simulations Facilities these include the Observation Time Estimator OTE the Instrument Parameter Validator IPV Starmap and the Target Visibility Predictor TVP The scientific community in the preparation of their proposals have access to the OTE amp the TVP 3 2 1 ISOC WWW System IWS The IWS provides the following functionality on line access to the Announcement of Opportunity documentation and information access to the PGT software for download on the user local machine using FTP access to the simulation tools Target Visibility Predictor and Observation Time Estimator the system checks the corr
114. rformed By right clicking on this bar one can insert manually RWBs If one is inserted one can delete it again by right clicking on the particular RWB window in the Scheduled bar by selecting Delete RWB 14 Overlap this bar shows when both Redu and Goldstone can have contact with Integral 15 RWB this bar shows the possible times for RWBs 16 RMU this bar shows the possible times for RMUs Note One can zoom in or out by clicking on or top left of the Schedule frame respectively One can delete all scheduled observations and slews by clicking on Unschedule at the top of the Schedule frame Information on the history of how the observations were scheduled with OSS as well as info on times observations slews pointings etc can be viewed in a separate window by clicking on History at the top of the Schedule frame 17 Schedule Summary shows a table of the scheduled observations Exiting using the DISMISS option will abort the planning session Ww Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 VN esa Science Operations Centre 155 e WS um Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual Sage 49 Note that this summary can be printed to a file by selecting Save Summary as Tab separated from File at the top of the Schedule window or simply type Ctrl T The file can be found in Summary data directory and is called XXXX SUM where XXXX is the revolution number add zero s 0 before
115. rvations at the ISOC Weekly Operations meeting and to the Project Scientist at the Science Planning meetings A bi weekly telecom is held with ISDC to discuss the status of this interface and determine which observations can should be considered as complete Ww Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 esa Science Operations Centre 155 S Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual Page 31 4 9 ISOC Configuration Control amp Software Maintenance The procedures amp rules to be followed to maintain the ISOC Configuration Control amp Software are contained within the ISOC Configuration Control Procedures document RD 25 As a supplement to RD 25 section 5 5 provides an overview of how ISOC handle the reception of external deliveries 4 10 Integral Science Data Archive Background information on the ISOC Archive can be found in the following documents Archive Software Joint Development Plan RD 31 JSOC ISDC Interactions Document AD 7 SOC ISDC ICD RD 11 Ww Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 VW esa Science Operations Centre 155 g h Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual ide 32 5 ISOC Internal Procedures 5 1 Proposal Handling amp Community Support S 1 1 Help Desk 5 1 1 1 Help Desk Management The helpdesk manager duty scientist tasks can be performed using machines on the normal office LAN Below is a list tasks to be performed e Check the helpdesk account several times per day
116. s When instructed to do so you may DISMISS the processing window 4 Select the various options ED Differences Parameter Alias Differences Parameter Differences Affected Observations amp Range Differences to view print any differences detected Differences due to calibration curves of the JEMX Data Taking parameters will always be detected These differences can be removed by following the procedures in section 5 6 1 5 Note If differences were detected which would impact an observation the button to Import IODB will be inhibited 5 6 1 5 JEMX Event Designator Modifications Fixes The ISOC do not use the calibration curves amp parameter limits present in some of the JEMX EDs provided by MOC Every time an IODB ED Browser extract is imported into the ISOC system PHS compares the new MOC Values with those used by ISOC Table 19 List of expected JEMX related ED differences provides details of the known expected JEMX related discrepancies which will be flagged Before the importing of the latest extracted ED set can be carried out it is necessary to remove the discrepancies This is dome by modifying the new extracted JEMX ED characteristics to reflect the values used by the ISOC Refer to Table 20 1 Within the Import IODB option of CCS there is a button option called Fix Jemx By clicking this button CCS will run a script which will update the new JEMX EDs to match the setting given in Table 20 2 After the up
117. s classified as Compton Table 24 IBIS Config for Normal Observations TM For GPS and GCDE observations Param nd wu TC NP Tane Units Comments Engineering Default G8609 R G0813 1 1750 sec Spectral Imaging Histograms S6 amp S7 Integration Time G8601 R G0804 1 2000 Kev ISGRI Energy Upper Threshold G8819 E raw 1 G0836 20 1 95 msec Spectral Timing Histograms S8 Integration Time G8829 E raw 2 ui 100 Kev PPM PICSIT Energy Lower Threshold G8830 E raw 196 SZ 10192 Kev PPM PICSIT Energy Upper Threshold G8784 E raw 90 G0803 d 5625 nsec ISGRI Rise Time Upper Threshold G8602 R G0805 1 5000 Kev Compton Selection Energy 10 packets less G8867 R G0885 4 0 9455 cos Compton Selection Cosine of the angle inside which an ev nt is classified as Compton Check whiteboard Ops Room for possible updated version of these tables le Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 amp esa Science Operations Centre 155 Shang Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual Se Ge Table 25 IBIS Config for GPS amp GCDE Observations For observations with reduced TM allocation 90 pkt Param PN TC NP Tu Units Comments Engineering Default G8609 R G0813 ri 1750 sec Spectral Imaging Histograms S6 amp S7 Integration Time G8601 R G0804 1 2000 Kev ISGRI Energy Upper Threshold G8819 E raw 6 G0836 20 62 5 msec Spectral Timing Hist
118. s enter into the PHS all the observation required to perform the weekly GPS scans 4 3 3 3 Submission of GCDE On a yearly basis the ISOC team using a dedicated set of Tools Software Scripts enter into the PHS all the observation required to perform the GCDE scans 4 3 4 Submission of Calibration proposals Observations In order to be scheduled by the ISOC Instrument Calibrations have to exist within the ISOC Proposal Observation databases All post launch instrument calibration requests proposals are entered directly into the ISOC database using the PHS system Submission of a calibration proposal observation is performed by the ISOC Science team using the PHS in response to a request from a specific Instrument Team Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 Issue 2 Date 11 June 2004 Page 22 Science Operations Centre Facility Operations Manual 4 3 5 Submission of Engineering Proposals Observations Technically speaking the ISOC planning system cannot be used to perform engineering activities such as SPI Annealing instrument memory loading etc It has however been recognised that to perform these type of activities system resources such as TM Allocation and special satellite attitudes etc along with the ability to reserve block a period of instrument observing time is required Submission of engineering observation is performed in house by the ISOC Science Team in response to requests received from
119. s between the various ISOC groups Chapter 3 The ISOC System A brief description of the ISOC System and its environment are provided in this chapter Chapter 4 Overview of ISOC Activities Detailed description of all activities performed by the ISOC Chapter 5 ISOC Internal Procedures This section contains the low level detailed procedures on how the ISOC conduct perform its day to day tasks Chapter 6 External Interfaces This section provides an overview of the nature of the various external groups centres to which the ISOC interact Annexes These provide a brief summary of the various guidelines amp policy documents details of the default IBIS configuration for different TM allocations and a list of the recommended OMC FFC pointings Integral INT SOC DOC 012 MN esa Science Operations Centre l e NS Kg s 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual E 1 3 Applicable Documents AD 1 Integral Science Management Plan ESA SPC 94 1 rev 1 Annex AD Integral Ground Segment Management Plan INT PL 23045 AD 3 Science Ground Segment Requirements Document INT SR 1594 AD 4 Science Ground Segment Implementation Plan INT PL 3197 AD 5 Integral Science Data Rights INT TN 14571 AD 6 Integral FOP Volume 3 OGS SGS Interactions INT MOC FOP 1001 TOS OGI AD 7 ISOC ISDC Interactions Document INT SOC DOC 007 1 4 Reference Documents
120. s still not optimum for operations The final output sequence contains an unwanted STBY ED before the first OMC FFC ED This ED has to be deleted from the POS amp ICP before the schedule is executed If not the OMC instrument will generate an exception message because it is already in standby In order to avoid any editing of the POS amp ICP it has been agreed with the MOC planners that they will remove these EDs 5 2 8 2 The Handling of GPS observations In AO 2 Galactic plane scans GPS are scheduled every 4 revolutions for arcs which fall roughly in quadrant 1 2 i e the arc of which the midpoint has a Galactic longitude II between 270 and 7 OMC FFC amp DCC are scheduled as fixed time observations 55 The Business Rule calculates the min time by adding up the required duration of each OMC calibrations ED Ww Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 Www Eod esa Science Operations Centre 1 e e WSs Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual ie 58 260 degrees or between 0 and 90 degrees They are scheduled every 8 revolutions for arcs which fall roughly in quadrant 3 4 i e the arc of which the midpoint has a Galactic longitude II between 90 and 270 degrees When both arcs of quadrant 1 2 and quadrant 3 4 are to be scheduled they have to be done in subsequent revolutions The order as well as the order in which the arc itself is to be done is not critical and may depend on other targets to be observed in the
121. sal sent by PGT At reception the PHS further checks the proposal If the checks fail the PHS stores the proposal in a dedicated directory and automatically inform by email the proposer If the checks succeed the PHS stores the proposal and observations in the ISOC Mission Database and further process the proposal and observations data e g setting the identifiers setting the status etc Ww Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 KRIS asa Science Operations Centre 1 e WS um Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual ide 13 processing of the Exposure Completion Status ECS received from the ISDC and to update the exposures data ISOC Mission data base consequently generation of the Observations Completion Status OCS File This involves processing the exposure data update the observation data in the ISOC Mission Database and write the output file OCS interface with the IFTS for getting and sending files to the external centres MOC ISDC generation of statistics reports to support the operations e g TAC Support the capability of amalgamating observations from different proposals generate new proposals 3 2 4 Observation Scheduling System OSS The OSS functionality s are interface with IFTS for sending and receiving the planning files import of the PSF received from MOC into the ISOC system this sets all the schedule constraints in the ISOC database automatic scheduling of the GSHO
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123. t and Latest start times of that particular part of the scan If the GPS is to be scheduled at the beginning of a revolution the Start time should be set to a value at least 1 hour after perigee When the Start amp End times are entered the revolution number is automatically calculated amp displayed e Enter also the Start Point and End Point of the GPS these values should be taken for the GPS table maintained amp published by the Mission Planning Responsible e The Approved time should be updated by clicking on Update Approved time under Start Point of GPS e When one has changed the necessary records COMMIT it and DISMISS Exit PHS e The modified GPS scan can now be called up in OSS 5 2 8 5 The Handling of GCDE observations As with the GPS the Mission Planning responsible identifies from the LTP when specific parts of the GCDE are visible and hence should be scheduled The mission planners also maintain a list table of pointing positions RA amp DEC of each point with the GCDE identified by Pattern ID amp a Pointing number Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 o E esa Science Operations Centre 155 i S Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual pine 59 Selecting a specific GCDE scan for scheduling For AO 1 the proposal numbers started with 01999 amp for AO 2 they start with 02999 etc o From within PHS select View Proposals option o Select ISWT survey under Type amp make Type active as a
124. the NERO program should open a New Compilation window o Select the option Open and from list of files displayed select CD for PHS2PGT This should result in the opening of a window called CD for PHS2PGT The various folders highlighted in this window are linked to the File Browser window directory C isoc data Converted_Proposals 2 Under menu option File select the sub option Write CD This procedure will be revised prior to AO 3 call to use the CD rewriter on the new Ops Server Integral INT SOC DOC 012 esa Science Operations Centre S 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual 38 3 Wait for confirmation that the Burning process is complete 4 Eject CD and repeat from step 1 if additional CDs are to be created 5 Log out of NERO program 5 1 2 5 3 Send Proposal Back to a Proposer With the required proposal either copied on to a CD or transferred to a directory in the office dev network the file can be emailed back to the proposer The file names are in the format PI Name Proposal Number phs 1 On receipt of the request for an old proposal the Helpdesk duty scientist should login as inthelp on the Astro LAN Refer to Rd 27 for details 2 Startup Netscape7 and the Netscape email facility The INBOX contain a copy of the original Proposers request 3 Select the Proposal Return template stored in the Template folder of Netscape mail tool When you clic
125. the number if it is less than 1000 18 Select amp Deselect Observations Within the Selection statement window one manually select or deselect observations based on the key properties from the proposal database The de selection is done by using SQL queries Basically from ALL keys of ALL tables selections can be made An example is and RA 75 and dec 65 and priority 3 Note ALWAYS start the SQL query with and This is because internally in OSS some SQL queries are already made Also note that SOL queries are not case sensitive Clicking on Save this Set above the Selection statement window can save SQL queries A previous saved query can opened by clicking on Open a saved Set above the Selection statement 19 Selection of Perigee Attitude When the revolution has not been scheduled before the Duty Mission Planner should select the option to use the ast pointing for perigee attitude This avoids long slews before perigee entry and thus saves science time 20 Schedule the revolution After the planner has completed amp check the schedules he she should commit them by selecting the option Schedule selected Revolutions OSS now reads in every observation from the database and accepts all targets which are in a visible skybin Then scheduling is done which takes into account the SQL queries and the few options This may take a while e g due to unscheduling or calculating dither patterns Fixed Time observations are sc
126. the various planning messages received from MOC to monitor the process of Timeline generation This stage ends with the reception from MOC of a Timeline Summary File TSF for each POS sent Each stage of this process is described in the following subsections 4 7 1 Reception of Planning Messages Following the submission of the POS amp ICP and prior to the reception of the Timeline Summary the ISOC receive four different types of Planning Messages from MOC indicating the progress of the Timeline Generation Ww Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 KRIS asa Science Operations Centre 155 e We SS Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual ide 30 The following message types are received via IFTS EPOS Validation Message APF Validation Message Cross Validation Message Timeline Generation Message Since the header of these messages contain an indication of whether that part of the Timeline generation process has been successful or not the ISOC Mission Planner can easily monitor the progress made by MOC in generating a Timeline The reception of a message indicating the failure of a specific part of the generation sequence especially EPOS amp APF generation provide the ISOC advanced warning that MOC may reject the POS that they refer to These Planning Messages are expected accessible on both the ISOC operational isoc data MPMF and office home isocops data MPMF networks 4 7 2 Reception amp Validation of
127. tions esses eene 21 4 3 5 Submission of Engineering Proposals Observations esee eene ennt 22 4 4 TOO SUBMISSION amp DECLARATION iecit dise eiie iiri Uscite iie ertet Pies tir tese nin 23 44 1 Submission of ToO Proposals outside of AO TAC CH 23 44 2 Declaration of a Tor 23 4 5 PROPOSAL MAINTENANCE 2 iieri eap teh tee tiere esa Enti v te EOE E ER NEEE EEEN EOE REEE EAn APEERE TENi SE EE 25 45 1 Amalgamation of Open Time Observations essere eene tren eterne rennes 25 4 5 2 Sending of Proposal amp Observation Related Data to JD 25 4 5 3 Modification of an Open Time Proposal outside of the AO period 25 4 5 4 Modification of the Core Programme 25 4 5 5 Updating of Calibration amp Engineering Observations eese eene eene 26 4 6 OBSERVATION SCHEDULING iseisessisestensieetvnrscesvsctisdsedyensconsonnsbeciyans onsiebsbnedventiecsoatsisesseosiensvabaleeivensd PESARE TERESE ARAE 27 4 6 1 Long Term amp Short Term Pion 27 4 62 The Nominal Planning Process JC 27 4637 Repl nning ianitor mieten boi degit pe obese e pap tees os a sere aaa 29 4 7 OBSERVATION TRACKING etes sestet tei He orere FU HH HEU HE rU ter tie Fu e Ee e tese tertie EE 29 4 7 1 Reception of Planning Messages 29 4 7 2 Reception amp Validation of Timeline Summer 30 4 8 EXPOSURE amp OBSERVATION COMPLETION STATUS MANAGEMENT cene ee e een e een eene 30 4 9 ISOC CONFIGURATION CONTROL amp SOFTWARE M
128. to be copied to the PC in the OPS room in order for the appropriate data to be extracted This can be done in several ways but perhaps one of the easiest is to burn a copy of the browser onto a CD ROM An alternative method is via memory stick This procedure assumes the use of a CD ROM and familiarity with the K3b CD burning programme available on the Linux server Log on to Development server actual Workstation Insert blank CD in to the CD Writer Open the K3b CD copying programme If necessary the software will guide you through the steps to format the blank CD Select the isoclib deliveries V directory Locate and select highlight the new version of the ED Browser Event Designator 2K dd mm yy zip and or Event Designator mdb 7 Select the option icon Burn 8 When the burning process is complete the CD will be ejected ae ee 5 6 1 2 Install ED Browser on OPS PC amp Extraction Files for CCS This section amp subsections can only be performed on the OPS room PC as they require the user to run MS Access 5 6 1 2 1 Install a Copy of the New ED Browser on the OPS Room PC 1 Log on to the Ops PC as phsuser1 and delete ALL txt files that you find in the local directory C isoc data IODB 2 Insert the CD ROM containing the new ED Browser in the CD drive and copy the file Event Designator 2K dd mm yy zip or Event Designator 2K dd mm yy mdb file to the directory C isoc data IODB 3 Ifthe CD contai
129. transferred from ESTEC to VILSPA Ww Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 VN esa Science Operations Centre 155 S E Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual ide 6 e Support accelerated re planning in response to TOOs and Anomalies e Liaise with other centres to conduct coordinated observations 2 2 1 3 General Support Tasks e Support to the PS in the preparation of all necessary Proposal related reports amp statistics e Support to the PS in Public Relations Activities e General support to proposers observers via a Help Desk e Maintain all appropriate Operational procedures e Liaise with Instrument Teams Distribution of Procedures Between ISOC Team Members Functional Tasks Function Section Title of Procedure Comment Mission Planner amp 5 2 1 Routine Planning Activities On call Duty Scientist 5 2 2 Target of Opportunity Scheduling 5 2 3 Soft TOO Scheduling 5 2 4 Visual Checks on Generated Planning files 5 2 5 Checking the Planning Messages 5 2 6 Reception amp Validation of Timeline Summary 5 2 7 Handing of Contingencies 5 2 8 Special Observation Related Procedures ISOC ISDC Interface 5 3 1 Check for reception of new ECS files ECS OCS Scientist 5 3 2 Processing ECS Handling 5 3 3 Generation amp sending of OCS files 5 3 4 Preparation for ISOC ISDC Teleconference Routine Help Desk 5 1 1 1 Help Desk Management Support Operation of the Help Desk S W JitterBug 5 1 1 3 M
130. ts are received and stored on the Astro machine and assuming that machine is still functioning the data can be accessed from any the RSSD subnets The proposal data can thus be printed off and manually entered in the PHS If Astro is down and ISDC has detected a ToO the back up for them would be to send the ToO characteristics to ISOC by fax 5 2 7 1 2 Alternative method of transferring planning files to MOC In order to send the planning files to MOC by passing the failed ISOC subnet the files will have to be copied DAT or Floppy from the operational system so that they can be emailed to MOC Assuming the failure is restricted to ISOC subnet the files could be installed on any of the astro machines If astro is also down any PC with email capability will do The two files to be copied amp sent to MOC are the POS amp ICP RRRR VV POS amp RRRR VV ICP Both of these files are located in the directory isoc data POS generated The files should be emailed to the address integralogs esa int After sending the files the SPACON should be called x62408 to let him her know that they have been sent Ww Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 NN I esa Science Operations Centre 155 S Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual ide 56 5 2 8 Special Observation Related Procedures 5 2 8 1 OMC FF amp DC Calibrations 5 2 8 1 1 Nominal OMC FF amp DC Calibration Sequence The ISOC routinely every 12 revol
131. ure for the handling of a S W deliver is slightly different from that of a new Catalogue The reason for this being that the installation of a version of the OMC S W is an internal ISOC concern provided the ICD RD 12 remains unchanged The OMC catalogue is however an identified multi site configured item The updating of the OMC catalogue shall therefore be coordinated with the ISDC via the GS CCB see RD 34 and in line with AD 7 The ISOC librarian should send a copy of the catalogue to ISDC after its installation has been approval by the CCB 5 5 1 3 1 Procedure for transferring OMC Catalogue to ISDC 1 The ISOC Librarian shall place a gzipped copy of the OMC Catalogue on the ISOC ftp server in the following directory ftp astro esa int pub integral ISOC download 2 The ISOC Librarian shall then send an email to the ISDC using the email address isdc ops obs unige ch with copy to isdc shift obs unige ch 3 The email should include as an attachment a copy of the delivery note received from OMC along with the following details e Catalogue Version Number e The server location See above e Planned implementation date Revolution number etc Changes to the OMC Delta Catalogue are performed by the ISOC Science Team and are addressed in section 5 1 5 Ww Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 VN esa Science Operations Centre 155 e NS um Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual page 67 5 5 2 ISOC System Admi
132. utions schedule a sequence normally 6 OMC FFC calibrations followed by a single DCC calibration The required sequence of commands to perform these calibrations is given in Table 15 Between each calibration command and the subsequent Standby command a delay is required equivalent to the time required to perform and download the calibration data This delay is dependent on both the calibration command content and the allocated OMC TM rate The Business Rules within PHS will automatically calculate this delay Cycle Command Comment MEFFCAO1 OMC FF CAL Command 1 Delay dependent on MEFFCA01 content MESTBYO1 OMC Stand by Command MEFFCA01 OMC FF CAL Command 2 Delay dependent on MEFFCA01 content MESTBY01 OMC Stand by Command MEFFCA01 OMC FF CAL Command 3 Delay dependent on MEFFCA01 content MESTBYOI OMC Stand by Command MEFFCA01 OMC FF CAL Command 4 Delay dependent on MEFFCA01 content MESTBYO1 OMC Stand by Command MEFFCA01 OMC FF CAL Command 5 Delay dependent on MEFFCA01 content MESTBYOI OMC Stand by Command MEFFCA01 OMC FF CAL Command 6 Delay dependent on MEFFCA01 content MESTBYO1 OMC Stand by Command MEDCCAO01 OMC DC CAL Command 7 Delay dependent on MEDCCA01 content MESTBYO1 OMC Stand by Command Table 15 Nominal ED Sequence of OMC FFC amp DCC
133. vation Source visibility S C attitude constraints etc e Assess the implications scientific amp technical of interrupting the present pre planned schedule e Cross check the request against the list of already approved proposals e Report back to the Project Scientist on his her findings 4 4 2 Declaration of a ToO If the Project Scientist declares the TOO to be valid he issues a TOO notification Email This notification will be distributed to the ISWT and all elements in the ground segment This notification will advise everyone that a TOO has been declared and if necessary a re plan of the schedule has been approved The ISOC s response to the declaration of a TOO is 1 Ifan already approved proposal exists in the database the PS authorises the ISOC Planners to schedule the TOO and specifies where the ongoing schedule could be interrupted in order to insert the TOO If the approved observation does not belong to the person who has notified the ISOC of the TOO the ISOC Help Desk contacts the original proposer and advise him her that his proposal observation is about to be scheduled Or 2 Ifno approved proposal exists within the database the ISOC Duty Scientist assist the New TOO proposer to submit one The sequence events involved in do this are e ISOC Help Desk contacts proposer advising him her that the TOO request has been authorised e Using the data provided by the proposer the ISOC Proposal Handler t
134. will depend not just on the feedback received from the initial ISOC team members analysis but also on any possible implications it may have for external ISOC parties The CCB also crosschecks the delivery against RD 20 in order to ensure that all applicable GS CCB requirements are covered The external deliveries to the ISOC are normally be received from MOC and occasionally OMC ISDC and Southampton Each of these deliveries can be divided in to software update which will generally be infrequent and data or table updates The latter are expected to be more frequent Once a file or S W packages has been approved by the DRB CCB the ISOC Librarian updates the S W development links to ensure that they now point to the newly approved file software package Where appropriate for example in the case of the OMC Catalogue the ISOC Librarian contacts ISDC and advises them that a new catalogue has been approved Refer to section 5 5 1 3 and RD 11 for further details on OMC Catalogue updating and RD 34 for details of all multi site configured items RD 20 and RD 25 cover in some detail the procedures used by the ISOC S W team to ensure that the system configuration is maintained The following subsections therefore concentrates on configuration control activities relating to external deliveries Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 Ww m esa Science Operations Centre 155 e Y mw Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual Page 64
135. windows and the RWB the OSS automatically inserts GSHO windows inside the overlap windows according to a pre defined strategy automatic scheduling of the fixed time observations the system places them in the observations windows and create the necessary exposures The system reshuffles the GSHO and the RWB windows in order to optimise the exposure duration s and hence provide maximum utilisation of the observation time extraction of the observations selected by the Mission Planner from the ISOC Mission Database automatic schedule of the observations the system reshuffles the GSHO windows and the RWB in order to maximise the observation time The system will automatically fill in the gaps in the schedule by finding the gaps in the schedule scanning the ISOC Mission data base extracting an observation scheduling it creating the exposures calculation of the slew time between exposures using the MOC provided software generation of the planning files POS ICP POD calculation of the OMC sub windows using the OMC provided software definition of the pointing identifiers generation of the EDs necessary per exposure display of the schedule 32 5 Configuration Control Subsystem CCS The CCS functionality s are Importation amp Maintenance of the Event Designators ED and associated Instrument ISOC Modes Observation Configurations Maintenance of the ISOC configurable parameters Some parameters are now maintained in
136. wrap round will take place The engineering observation should configure ALL instruments back to the ISOC defaults specified in the Instrument Modes TN RD 33 5 2 8 5 Handling of SPI Annealing amp associated PSD Calibration SPI annealing amp the PSD calibration operations are prepared offline and inserted into the PHS as a series of Fixed time Observations Their scheduling is therefore performed in an identical manner to any other Fixed Time Observation The sequence of events surround each SPI annealing are discussed in a dedicated meeting involving representatives of MOC SPI Team amp ISOC As part of this process the ISOC Sci Team identify all observations normally IBIS based suitable for scheduling in parallel with the proposed SPI annealing sequence 5 2 8 6 Manual Insertion of RWBs The ability of ISOC to be able to manually insert in to the POS and RWB at a specific time or place was developed in order to minimise POS rejection due to wheel bias profiles This capability was needed if a schedule had to be modified in response to a ToO or Ground Station contingency The planner was expected to insert an RWB before the slew to the to the new observation The need for the planner to calculate when and where a RWBs had been has been removed with the deliver of ISOC system v10 In v10 OSS determines if an RWB is needed and prompt the planner during the schedule session to confirm its insertion The manual insertion capa
137. y desirable that all future planning files be regenerate after the update has taken place Integral Science Operations Centre Facility Operations Manual Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 Issue 2 Date Page 11 June 2004 79 The ISOC responsible should now log all updates activities and then inform the PI MOC amp GS CCB that the requested updates have been implemented 5 6 4 2 Switch the Operational JEMX unit At the request of the JEMX PI the ISOC normally schedule observations using only one JEMX unit The not to be used JEMX is always kept in SAFE DORM mode The one being used being normally in Data Taking mode The SAFE DORM mode has no EDs associated with it If it is required to switch the operational baseline JEMX unit the following steps should be taken I Modify CCS Domain Properties see Table 22 to reflect which JEMX is to be used in the generation of GPS GCDE proposals observation Domain If using 23 Properties If using JEMX 1 JEMX2 Both gps jemx1 mode DATA TAKING SAFE DORM DATA TAKING gps jemx2 mode SAFE DORM DATA TAKING DATA TAKING gcde jemx1 mode DATA TAKING SAFE DORM DATA TAKING gcde jemx2 mode SAFE DORM DATA TAKING DATA TAKING Table 22 CCS Domain Properties optimised for JEMX 1 or 2 2 If both JEMX units are to be used it may be necessary to adjust the default TM allocation to match the approve
138. y the system to a mirror set of directories on the office development server home isocops data 5 Update ISOC Log Book identifying the POS POD versions created the time at which they were sent Ww Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 WN esa Science Operations Centre 155 e We um Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual ide 51 52 2 Target of Opportunity Scheduling The decision to schedule a TOO shall be taken by the Project Scientist or his her nominated deputy TOO Management is addressed in sections 4 4 and 4 4 2 This section deals only with the activities required to schedule the observation once it has been approved 5 2 2 1 Check Existing Schedule Enter OSS 2 Select the revolution s which is are going to be rescheduled 3 Display the schedule of that these revolution s 4 Determine a suitable time for the start of the TOO generally something like more than 10 hrs from the time one starts this re plan 5 Check if there are any Fixed Time observations after that time 6 Quit Scheduling Session i e no change in schedule 7 Quit OSS 5 2 2 2 Notify MOC ISDC that re plan is about to commence Before commencing a TOO re plan the ISOC duty scientist should send an email amp or telephone the MOC amp ISDC to inform them that the re plan has been approved In the email the ISOC duty scientist should indicated the proposed time derived in section 5 2 2 1 bullet 4 at which the
139. ynamics deliveries 5 5 1 1 1 Updating of the Orbita amp Revno files used by ISOC New copies of Orbita amp Revno files are received from MOC FD automatically every 3 7 days On a regular basis at least once per month these files need to be installed on the ISOC operational system The present baseline is for the ISOC software librarian to import the latest versions available at the start of each week The procedure to do this is given below 1 Log in as isocsys run PHS amp select 2 Confirm that no other user is using OSS amp PHS before proceeding 3 Select CCS option FD Files amp SPIBIS 4 Select button option Install Data Files 5 A series of Pop up windows appear referring to first Orbit amp then the Revno file Click OK for each of these windows Integral Doc No INT SOC DOC 012 Science Operations Centre 199 e 2 Date 11 June 2004 Facility Operations Manual ie 65 6 When the importing of the new files is completed select the option Recalculate AII After this option has been selected PHS will begin to systematically recalculate the SPIBIS constraints for all observations The process may take a few minutes 7 When PHS has finished recalculating regenerating the list of SPIBISed observations print the new REVNO file 8 Clicking the Dismiss button can close the window 9 Log out of PHS amp record in log book that the new set of Orbita amp Revno files have been installe

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