RPW Consortium Meeting 20 Concluding Remarks Action Items

RPW Consortium Meeting #20 Concluding Remarks & Action Items M. Maksimovic 29 November 2017, Observatoire de Paris

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4. Check the status of the S/C HGA illuminating the RPW pre-amps. This is a safe operation for RPW but which will corrupt our data § To check if it is possible to avoid this illumination during EMC quiet periods OPEN § To check if the S/C flag these periods. OPEN 5. Sylviane to organize a management meeting on how to assemble an MEB in LESIA in order to measure the SCM/MEB interaction which is likely to be the source of the infamous “Eye problem” CLOSED 6. All team : Provide to Milan a status of the SCM calibrations on August 20 before the final decision of the PFM/FS exchange CLOSED (decision has been made to fly the FS) 7. All lead Co. Is provide Feedback on the RPW User manual by August 31 st ? ? ? 8. ROC to check the HK data cadency and needed HK (ratio between HK & Burst seems too large) CLOSED 3

New Actions 1. Science performance document – Milan & Emmanuel end of January 2. LESIA TEAM to provide L 1 R Transfer function for the HF pre-amplifier, as function of the temperature , date ? 3. Each of the 5 teams (BIAS, LFR, THR & TDS) to provide requirements for the a. The ANT deployment (electric measurements) b. The Instrument boom deployement (Mag measurements) Antonio will send and email with answer by Discussion on the ROC schedule wrt the launch date 4

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Instrument paper Deadline : submission before 31 st of October 2018 (with an internal submission to ESA project scientists on the 30 th of September 2018). Based on the following rationale: - If we launch in February 2020, the papers would be published some months before launch. - If we don’t launch in February 2020, the papers should not be delayed anymore, since the key technical people who are needed for writing some parts of these papers might move to other projects. § § § We shall define the list of authors (already some feedback), finalize it by 15/02/18 First Outline draft and distribution of tasks submitted by Milan : 20/02/18, two week of feedback First section drafts sent to Milan by 15/04/18 Second draft complete paper distributed by Milan : 10/05/18, two weeks of feedback Final paper ready by 10/06/18, sent the ESA 6

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Future meetings § Consortium meeting #21 (outcome of the S/C interference campain) in Dresden in spring 2018 ? § Consortium meeting #22 in Kiruna in Fall 2018 ? § Future general Solar Orbiter meetings : Ø SOWG in Madrid, 15618 January 2018 8