HET End-Trimester Report
First Period of 2019
December 1 - March 31

This report is composed of five sections:
Facility Status

In this section we will discuss the status of the HET facility and each instrument and any limitation to configurations that occurred during the period.


Observing Statistics

Commissioning and Engineering Report There were 197 hours were granted for engineering in the 19-1 period:

There were 129 hours of engineering actually used in the 19-1 period. The following were some of the catagories of engineering undertaken:

Month by Month Summary

The following table gives the observing statistics for each month. The second column gives the fraction of the month that was spent attempting science (as opposed to engineering or instrument commissioning). Science time is defined to begin at 18 degree twilight or the first science target. Science time is defined to end at 18 degree twilight or the last science target. The second column gives the fraction of the possible science time (A) lost due to weather. The fifth through seventh columns give the amount of remaining science time (after removing weather losses) not spent attempting science targets. Please note that the first stack of the night often occurs before 18 degree twilight.

Month A:Fraction of the Time that was Possible Science C:Fraction of Total Time Lost due to Weather D:Fraction of Actual Science Time Spent with Shutter Open D:Fraction of Actual Science Time Lost due to Overhead D:Fraction of Actual Science Time Lost due to Alignment F:Fraction of Actual Science Time Lost due to Problems Fraction of Actual Science Time Not accounted for or Lost
Dec 0.947 0.453 0.622 0.268 0.066 0.030 0.014
Jan 0.954 0.502 0.633 0.250 0.069 0.035 0.013
Feb 0.911 0.434 0.659 0.252 0.043 0.021 0.026
Mar 0.776 0.442 0.652 0.240 0.033 0.070 0.006

The following tables give a break down of all attempted science visits as well as the category that each falls into.

Charged exposures
Number of TimesShutter Open (Hours)Type
2434331.28 A - Acceptable
15921.22 B - Acceptable but Border line conditions
21464.07 4 - Priority 4 visits (does not include 1/2 charge)
131.27 Q - charged but PI error
00.0 C - Acceptable by RA but PI rejects

Uncharged exposures caught by RA
Number of TimesShutter Open (Hours)Type
10.08 N - Rejected due to unknown cause
173.75 E - Rejected for Equipment Failure
20142.50 W - Rejected for Weather
234.65 H - Rejected for Human failure

Uncharged exposures caught by PI
Number of TimesShutter Open (Hours)Type
16 5.40 P - Rejected for weather
3 0.72 F - Rejected for Equipment Failure
00.0 T - Rejected for poor track choice
00.0 X - Rejected for Human failure

Acceptable but Uncharged exposures
Number of TimesShutter Open (Hours)Type
0 0.00 I - Targets observed under otherwise idle conditions

The following setup statistics include slew, aquisition, and starting data collection script. The table below gives the average setup time for each instrument PER ACTUAL VISIT and the average and maximum COMPLETED charged science exposures and visits.

The "Exposure" is defined by when the CCD opens and closes. A "Visit" is the requested total CCD shutter open time during a track and might be made up of several "Exposures". "Visit" as defined here contains no overhead. To calculate one type of observing efficiency metric one might divide the "Visit" by the sum of "Visit" + "Overhead".

The average setup per visit is calculated from acceptable priority 0-3 (not borderline) science targets. This number reflects how quickly we can move from object to object on average for each instrument, however, this statistic tends to weight the setup for programs with large number of targets.

Instrument Avg Setup per Visit(min)Median Completed Exposure (sec)Max Completed Exposure (sec)Avg Completed Visit (sec)Max Completed Visit (sec)
VIRUS 2.82360 600 10691800
LRS2 4.814003780 1055.37200
HPF 6.74319.51533.6 889.23835

The setup statistics can be shortened by multiple setups (each one counted as a separate visit) while on the same target such as moving from LRS2-B to LRS2-R.


Observing Programs Status

In the table below we show the breakdown of the charged time for each program submitted. The last four columns show the completion rate for targets submitted in each priority bin. This completion rate is the great of the targets completed percentage and the TAC allocation completed percentage.
InstitutionTotal OpenTotal OHTotal ChargedTotal TACTotal %P0 CompletionP1 CompletionP2 CompletionP3 Completion
G19-1-001 0.300.130.430.6467.71%100.00%
G19-1-002 0.750.230.981.6858.53%100.00%66.67%
M19-1-001 2.671.484.155.00 83.00%100.00%100.00% 66.67%
M19-1-002 4.501.98 6.4810.00 64.83%100.00%80.44%25.00%
M19-1-003 1.170.43 1.601.50 100.00%100.00%100.00%
PSU19-1-001 6.641.327.96 8.59 92.70%100.00%100.00%
PSU19-1-002 0.540.000.54 0.92 59.07%
PSU19-1-003 4.500.77 5.27 8.80 59.85%100.00%48.48%
PSU19-1-004 5.280.81 6.0910.00 60.89%95.06%59.11%50.00%
PSU19-1-005 0.250.10 0.35 1.66 20.82%41.64%0.00%
PSU19-1-006 2.130.43 2.56 6.00 42.66%100.00%0.00%0.00%
PSU19-1-007 0.550.38 0.93 2.10 44.22%50.00%
PSU19-1-008 0.000.00 0.00 4.34 0.00%0.00%
PSU19-1-009 1.200.00 1.20 3.94 30.47%no targets submitted
PSU19-1-010 0.330.00 0.33 1.00 33.33%
PSU19-1-011 0.380.00 0.38 2.00 18.75%
PSU19-1-012 2.001.19 3.19 4.17 76.51%100.00%64.83%
PSU19-1-013 15.034.6919.7320.00 98.64%100.00%100.00%100.00%93.33%
UT19-1-001 3.000.51 3.5117.00 20.67%100.00%100.00%no targets submitted
UT19-1-003 0.340.81 1.1512.00 9.61%100.00%100.00%
UT19-1-004 14.853.3318.1941.0044.36%100.00% 90.14% 56.99% 43.77%
UT19-1-005 18.502.0020.5020.50100.00%100.00%100.00%
UT19-1-006 0.615.77 6.38 6.70 95.21%100.00%64.44%100.00%
UT19-1-007 7.061.15 8.2112.60 65.17%100.00%80.00%39.92%
UT19-1-008 13.887.9321.8144.60 48.90%71.57%
UT19-1-009 8.414.5412.9520.00 64.74%92.36%92.65%
UT19-1-010 3.863.25 7.1114.00 50.76%50.76%
UT19-1-011 13.191.7214.9116.20 92.03%100.00%100.00%89.68%84.92%
UT19-1-012 14.323.0217.3324.75 70.03%100.00%58.82%88.81%88.24%
HET19-1-100 108.6034.43143.03 229.00 62.46%62.46%
HET19-1-201 1.000.12 1.12 3.00 37.22%100.00%no targets submittedno targets submitted
HET19-1-202 4.000.41 4.41 5.00 88.11%100.00%100.00%
HET19-1-203 0.830.20 1.03 0.92 100.00%100.00%100.00%
HET19-1-204 0.000.00 0.00 6.00 0.00%0.00%
HET19-1-300 15.234.08 19.3120.00 96.54%100.00% 90.65% 94.48%

Program Completion Rates
Priority Average Completion Median Completion
P0 97.2% 100.0%
P1 86.1% 100.0%
P2 79.0% 91.2%
P3 57.8% 58.7%


Institution Status

This is how each institution has allocated its time by priority.

Time Allocation by Institution (hours)
Institution Priority 0 Priority 1 Priority 2Priority 3 Priority 4
PSU 5.32 15.86 21.09 21.18 10.07
UT 13.05 43.50 60.90 50.90 61.00
Munich 0.00 5.50 5.50 5.50 0.00
Goetting 0.00 0.84 0.64 0.84 0.00
GTO 236.35 13.57 14.00 0.00 0.00

The following is a summary of the total charged time for each institution based on our htopx data base (for shutter open) and night reports (for overhead). It includes shutter open time (weighting priority four by half) and overhead.

As requested by the board the time accounting has started over starting Fiscal year 2011-2012.

Time Charged by Institution (hours)
-INST- Used THIS PERIOD % of All THIS PERIOD -TOTAL TO DATE- -% TO DATE- - % ALLOCATION TO DATE-
PSU 48.52 25.0% 1246.8428.6%23.83%
UT 132.05 68.0% 2719.4762.4%67.25%
Munich 12.23 6.3% 218.335.0%5.44%
Goetting 1.42 0.7% 176.774.1%3.47%

Below are the summaries of the GTO time granted by the Board:

GTO Time Charged by Project (hours)
-Project- Allocated THIS PERIOD Used THIS PERIOD -TOTAL TO DATE-
HETDEX (HETYY-P-100) 229.0 143.03 511.98
LRS2 (HETYY-P-2XX) 15.0 6.56 51.31
HPF (HETYY-P-3XX) 20.0 19.31 40.51


Total to Date starting from the 11-2 period.


TAC Response