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EIS Team Science Meeting Agenda#

18th March

This page refers to one day of a closed meeting of the EIS consortium

Contributions now solicited!#

If you have something to talk about under any of the headings below, please e-mail David Williams and let him know. Topics without names beside them may be 'volunteered' to people otherwise ;-)

Those without an EISWiki account or access can mail their comments and intended contribution topics to David Williams.

Technical#

Report from Technical Splinter Meeting (previous day)#

09:00 (Khalid Al-Janabi)

Analysis Software#

Status of the reduction package#

10:00 EIS_PREP (Alessandro Gardini)

Useful additional software#

(With descriptions or demonstrations)

10:15 Gaussian fitting routines for EIS (Peter Young)
A quick display method (David Williams)

Choosing data#

A discussion about how to access the kind of data you might be looking for.

Science#

EIS Science Achievements#

Each national PI will give their perspective on the scientific achievements of EIS in its first 2.5 years. These are personal perspectives on where we stand on two things:

phenomena and scientific issues that were known before launch
the discoveries Hinode has made with EIS

( they won't necessarily agree :-) )

11:30 Tetsuya Watanabe
11:50 Louise Harra
12:10 George Doschek

EIS Science Results#

Talks should put special emphasis on unsolved components in the context of what they talk about, and how they can be addressed using all three instruments on Hinode.

15 minutes per presentation is the guideline until I know how many talks there will be.
(Hint: I’m leaving ISAS next week(!), so please get me your title before evening JST on Thursday 5th March, or you might not get a fair slot.)

Quiet Sun#

Talks solicited!

Active Regions#

Cambridge active region studies (Helen Mason)
The thermal structure of active regions (Harry Warren)

Coronal Holes#

Talks solicited!

Flares#

Evaporated Plasma (Ryan Milligan)

Science with other, non-Hinode instruments#

I’d also like to solicit talks on any of the wealth of cross-observatory data taken over Hinode’s life so far (Hinode-SUMER campaigns, regular CDS co-observing, TRACE co-observing, WHI 2008, etc.) What projects do we have (under-way or recently completed) with these multi-instrument observations that couldn’t otherwise be tackled?

Techniques#

Line identifications with EIS and CHIANTI (Peter Young)
Diagnostics with the slot (Ignacio Ugarte)
- ...a look to how absolute units in slot images compare to slit rasters and what diagnostics we can obtain from them (density, DEM). It could be interesting for EIS users.

13:30 Observing: Techniques & Strategies What we’ve learned to date on observing with the S-band antenna

Some techniques for observing (David Williams)
- Problems
- Some examples of studies that have proven useful in overcoming these problems
- Prospects & challenges for the future:
How do we address observing challenging targets like flares?
- Flares (Ryan Milligan)
- Very active regions (Harry Warren / John Mariska)

Communicating with the Outside World#

The immediate and wider science community#

EIS Website & Wiki#

These are our public face for information. Will talk about:

Changes made since last year
How to increase participation
Good practice
- Keeping the contents up-to-date
New types of content

Beyond the professional science community#

Public outreach efforts and ideas Presentations solicited!

Action Items and Wrap-up#

Confirmed Attendees#

Khalid al-Janabi (MSSL)
Danielle Bewsher (RAL)
David Brooks (NRL)
Charlie Brown (NRL)
Paul Bryans (NRL)
Len Culhane (MSSL)
Ken Dere (GMU)
George Doschek (US PI; NRL)
Alessandro Gardini (UiO)
Hirohisa Hara (NAOJ)
Louise Harra (PI; MSSL)
Shinsuke Imada (NAOJ)
John Mariska (NRL)
Helen Mason (DAMTP)
Keiichi Matsuzaki (ISAS)
Ryan Milligan (GSFC)
Karin Muglach (NRL)
Steve Myers (NRL)
John Rainnie (RAL)
Toshifumi Shimizu (ISAS)
Ignacio Ugarte Urra (NRL)
Harry Warren (NRL)
Tetsuya Watanabe (Japan PI; NAOJ)
David Williams (MSSL)
Peter Young (NRL)

Back to the EIS Team Meeting top page.

Comments#

The agenda looks fine overall. Here are a few suggestions: Under Technical Session would it be worthwhile having a topic on “study-creation in the S-band era – prospects, problems, and experience” ? And what about the studies we are supposed to be preparing in the S-band era for solar maximum, e.g., flare studies? Under Science Results you might have a specific topic dealing with “EIS with other instruments science”, such as for example results from the EIS/SUMER campaigns. This would deal with research where key measurements are made with at least one instrument other than EIS, and not be concerned with research in which other instruments are used primarily for context. But maybe this topic is unnecessary and can be part of your other science topics. If I think of other possibilities I will let you know.

--George Doschek, 3-Feb-2009

Besides talk about EISWIki on science meeting (18th) may I suggest that we also have a discussion on our main website to find out which are good /bad, and what we can improve to deliver better information and services to scientists and public? Since launched in May 2007, we added plenty of contents on the website. Some of them maybe old and some may need to change. So it's good to have all your opinions

--Jian Sun, 26-Feb-2009

Could you add another item to the agenda? That is to look at how we keep a log of interesting events seen in EIS data. ... We talked about it on and off before launch but it would be good to try and get some simple log in place.

--Louise Harra, 6-Feb-2009

...
I am thinking to prepare a short presentation of eis_prep and of the moment computation in xfiles for the "Analysis Software" session on the 18th. I think everybody should indeed be already very aware of it, but it can help as a schematic reminder for an eventual discussion.

--Alessandro Gardini, 25-Feb-2009