Observatory operations : strategies, processes, and systems VIII : 14-22 December 2020 online only, United States / edited by David S. Adler, Robert L. Seaman, Chris R. Benn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adler, David S., editor.

Seaman, Robert L., editor.

Benn, Chris R., editor.

Series:

Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering ; Volume 11449.

Proceedings of SPIE ; Volume 11449

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Astronomical observatories--Congresses.

Astronomical observatories.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (626 pages).

Other Title:

Observatory Operations

Place of Publication:

Bellingham, Washington : SPIE, [2020]

Contents:

Welcome / Author(s): David S. Adler

The operations of the Thirty Meter Telescope / Author(s): Christophe Dumas; Francisco Delgado; Kim Gillies; Angel Otarola; Matthias Schöck; Warren Skidmore; Gelys Trancho; Jason Weiss

SOAR Telescope operations in the next decade / Author(s): J. Elias; C. Briceño

Las Cumbres Observatory's end-to-end operations workflow / Author(s): N. Volgenau; M. Bowman; P. Conway; B. Haworth; E. Heinrich-Josties; A. Kirby; S. Rettinger; A. Riba

Rubin Observatory's LSST Camera shipping container design and lessons learned / Author(s): Diane Hascall; Margaux Lopez; Antone Bullock; Travis Lange; Martin Nordby; Kevin Reil

The SCUBA project: first layer of quality control at the Paranal Observatory / Author(s): Romain Thomas; Trystyn A. M. Berg; Andrea Mehner; Willem-Jan de Wit; Stéphane Brillant

Astronomy operations with the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) / Author(s): Encarnacion Romero-Colmenero; Petri Väisänen; Danièl Groenewald; Christian Hettlage; Alexei Kniazev; Rudolph Kuhn; Moses Mogotsi; Enrico Kotze; Marissa Kotze; Rosalind Skelton; Lee Townsend; Thea Koen; Veronica Van Wyk; Fred Marang; Anja Schroeder; Nhlavutelo Macebele; Lonwabo Zaula; Sifiso Myeza

Implementing remote observing at the JCMT / Author(s): Harriet Parsons; Jessica Dempsey; Dan Bintley; Craig Walther; Sarah Graves; William Stahm; Maren Purves; Kevin Silva; Alexis Acohido; Graham Bell; Ryan Berthold; Jamie Cookson; Vernon DeMattos; Devin Estrada; Miriam Fuchs; David Fuselier; Paul Ho; John Kuroda; Shaoliang Li; Steven Mairs; Mark Rawlings

Second generation spectroscopic instrumentation for the STELLA robotic observatory / Author(s): Michael Weber; Manfred Woche; Klaus G. Strassmeier; Ilya Ilyin; Arto Järvinen

Multi-object spectroscopic operations with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey V / Author(s): José R. Sánchez-Gallego; Conor Sayres; John Donor; Andrés Almeida Toro; Ricardo Araujo; Luzius Kronig; Loïc Grossen; Richard Pogge; Stefanie Wachter; Solange Ramírez; Joel Brownstein

Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS): Fiber assignment through min-cost/max-flow / Author(s): Maximilian H. Fabricius; Ralf Bender; Javier Gracia-Carpio; Johannes Gross; Jim Gunn; Eiichiro Komatsu; Robert Lupton; Peter Mao; Martin Reinecke; Naoyuki Tamura; Robert Vanderbei; Shiang-Yu Wang; Kiyoto Yabe; Chi-Hung Yan

Design and analysis of an innovative distributed architecture for ESO instrument control hardware / Author(s): Christian Eredia; Enrico Cascone; Vincenzo Cianniello; Vincenzo De Caprio

Increasing efficiency and inclusivity of a radio telescope approaching 60 / Author(s): James A. Green

Lessons learned from the first ALMA antenna overhauls / Author(s): M. Gallilee; A. Alfaro; R. Arriaza; P. Bello; R. Cabezas; P. Carrillo; J. Cortes; F. Cruzat; F. Gonzalez; A. Hales; O. Hernandez; C. Jara; S. Gairing; G. Gomez; V. Lopehandia; C. Lopez; M. Marchesi; H. Marroquin; S. Martin; J. Millar; N. Mizuno; K. Plarre; R. Price; M. Radiszcz; B. Sepulveda; A. Symmes; C. Zapata

The importance of user acceptance and maintainability: turning away from the interactive manual for the European ALMA antennas / Author(s): A. Gnatz; A. Paredes

A kanban approach for the Sardinia Radio Telescope operations / Author(s): Sergio Poppi; Emilio Molinari

Operating the Square Kilometre Array: the world's most data intensive telescope / Author(s): Antonio Chrysostomou; Corrie Taljaard; Rosie Bolton; Lewis Ball; Shari Breen; Andreas van Zyl

AstroKAT and the MeerKAT observation framework / Author(s): Ruby Van Rooyen; Anton Joubert; Xinyu Wu; Rohan Schwartz; Maciej Serylak; Deneys S. Maartens

Observatory science operations tool development for the SKA within a scaled agile framework / Author(s): Pamela D. Klaassen; Stewart J. WIlliams; Mark Nicol; Valentina Alberti; Alan Bridger; Antonio Chrysostomou; Snehal Valame; Elizabeth S. Bartlett; Matteo Canzari; Abhijeet Deolalikar; John Lightfoot; Andrew McDermott; Viivi Pursiainen; Hélder Ribero; Jose Sabater

SKA engineering operations establishment challenges, opportunities, and focus areas for early action / Author(s): Andreas N. van Zyl; Corrie Taljaard

Operations management for recent and future large astronomical facilities: thoughts on best practices and key concepts / Author(s): Bernhard Lopez; Stuartt Corder; Nicholas Whyborn; Norikazu Mizuno; Jorge Ibsen; Elizabeth Humphreys

Optimizing MARVEL for the radial velocity follow up of TESS and PLATO transiting exoplanets / Author(s): Cyprien Lanthermann; Joris De Ridder; Hugues Sana; Pierre Royer; Denis Defrère; Gert Raskin; Bart Vandenbussche; Andrew Tkachenko; Christian Schwab; Hans Van Winckel

Improving observatory efficiency: noise limited observing at the JCMT / Author(s): Sarah F. Graves; Harriet Parsons; Jessica Dempsey; Graham Bell; Mark Rawlings; Steven Mairs; Ryan Berthold; Craig Walther; Izumi Mizuno; Shaoliang Li; Dan Bintley; Per Friberg; Maren Purves; John Kuroda

Science planning and scheduling of the James Webb Space Telescope / Author(s): David S. Adler; Kristen B. Wymer; Ryan M. Logue; Brigette E. Hesman

Automated project completion forecasting / Author(s): Alexandra J. Tetarenko; Harriet Parsons; Sarah Graves; Jessica Dempsey

The Gemini Observatory International Time Allocation Committee (ITAC) process / Author(s): M. Lemoine-Busserolle; J. Miller; A. J. Adamson; B. Cooper

ESO's Exposure Time Calculator 2.0 / Author(s): Henri M. J. Boffin; Jakob Vinther; Lars K. Lundin; Gurvan Bazin

Scheduling design, executing and logging in RACS2 for astronomical telescopes / Author(s): Qian Zhang; Ming-hao Jia; Zhi-yue Wang; Ze-yu Zhu; Guang-Yu Zhang; Jian Wang

New methods for ALMA angular-scale based observation scheduling, quality assessment, and beam shaping / Author(s): Dirk Petry; María Díaz Trigo; Rüdiger Kneissl; Ignacio Toledo; Stefano Facchini

Efficient astronomy scheduling using artificial immune systems / Author(s): Mauricio Solar Sr.; John Atkinson

An automated scheduling software package and queue system for the NEID radial velocity spectrometer / Author(s): Eli Golub; Mark Everett; Sarah E Logsdon; Jayadev Rajagopal; Erik Timmermann

Maunakea Night-Sky Model / Author(s): Andreea O. Petric; Nicolas J. Flagey; Jennifer L. Marshall; Leo Barba; Samuel C. Barden; Alexis Hill; Kei Szeto; Étienne Artigau; Andrew Stephens

Temperature and humidity profiling radiometer for telluric absorption line correction / Author(s): Alain Smette; Florian Kerber; Thomas Rose

Characterization of the effect of atmospheric parameters on the infrared sky at the VLT / Author(s): Aleksandra Solarz; Jonathan Smoker; Willem-Jan de Wit; Linda Schmidtobreick; Alain Smette; Julien Milli

Diversity, equity, and inclusion at international observatories: current practices and strategic planning for the future / Author(s): Alysha Shugart

The growing legacy of a Great Observatory: Spitzer publications / Author(s): Elena Scire; Luisa Rebull; Jessica Krick

Inclusion in an international training program for early-career engineers and scientists in the Thirty Meter Telescope partnership / Author(s): Nicholas J. McConnell; Austin Barnes; Warren Skidmore; Renate Kupke; Jessica Lu; Scott Roberts; Ravinder Bhatia; Sandra Dawson; Gary H. Sanders; Lisa Hunter

Euclid's US Science Data Center: lessons learned from building a small part of a big system / Author(s): Harry I.

Teplitz; Benjamin Rusholme; Hervé Aussel; Christophe Dabin; George Helou; Mark Holliman; Andrea Zacchei

Building a modern data archive with React, GraphQL, and friends / Author(s): Christian Hettlage; Lucian Botha; Nhlavutelo Macebele; Moses Mogotsi; Sifiso Myeza; Encarni Romero Colmenero; Rosalind Skelton; Petri Väisänen; Lonwabo Zaula

The Virtual Observatory ecosystem facing the European Open Science Cloud / Author(s): Marco Molinaro; Mark Allen; Françoise Genova; André Schaaff; Margarida Castro Neves; Markus Demleitner; Sara Bertocco; Dave Morris; François Bonnarel; Stelios Voutsinas; Catherine Boisson; Giuliano Taffoni

Improving ALMA's data processing efficiency using a holistic approach / Author(s): Theodoros Nakos; Harold Francke; Kouichiro Nakanishi; Dirk Petry; Thomas Stanke; Catarina Ubach; Luciano Cerrigone; Erica Keller; Alfonso Trejo; Junko Ueda

Towards the processing, review, and delivery of 80% of the ALMA data by the Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) / Author(s): Jorge F.

García Yus; Bill Dent; Drew Brisbin; Chin-Shin Chang; Laura Gómez; Theodoros Nakos

Smart obervation method with wide field small aperture telescopes for real time transient detection / Author(s): Jia Peng; Qiang Liu; Yongyang Sun; Yitian Zheng; Wenbo Liu; Yifei Zhao

Development of transient detection method and GPU-accelerated image reduction pipeline / Author(s): Katsuhiro Murata; Kota Iida; Masafumi Niwano; Yoichi Yatsu; Nobuyuki Kawai; Motoki Oeda; Kazuki Shiraishi; Ryo Adachi; Futa Ogawa; Sayaka Toma; Ryohei Hosokawa

A design reference survey for the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer / Author(s): Jennifer L. Marshall; Andreea O. Petric; Nicolas Flagey

ANTARES: a gateway to ZTF and LSST alerts / Author(s): Chien-Hsiu Lee; Thomas Matheson; Abhijit Saha; Gautham Narayan; Monika Soraisam; Carl Stubens; Nic Wolf; Richard Snodgrass; John Kececioglu; Carlos Scheidegger

The Astrophysical Events Observatories Network (AEON) / Author(s): R. A. Street; A. Adamson; J. P Blakeslee; R. D. Blum; A. S Bolton; T. Boroson; M. Bowman; C. Briceño; J. H. Elias; E. Gomez; S. Heathcote; E. Heinrich-Josties; A. Hopkinson; C.-H. Lee; B. W. Miller; J. Nation; S. Ridgway; D. R. Silva; L. J. Storrie-Lombardi

Science calibration for highly multiplexed fiber-fed optical spectroscopy: update from Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer / Author(s): Samuel C. Barden; Darren L. Depoy; Nicolas Flagey; Alexis Hill; Jennifer L. Marshall; Andreea O. Petric; Luke M. Schmidt; Kei Szeto

Improving the focus of Las Cumbres Observatory's 1-meter telescopes / Author(s): N. Volgenau; D. Harbeck; T. Lister; P. Conway; L. Lindstrom

Prototyping of log analysis infrastructure for the Subaru telescope based on the ALMA experience / Author(s): Kyoko Nakamura; George Kosugi; Tatsuhiro Sato; Eisuke Morita; Yohei Hayashi

Development of labor-saving system for the maintenance of the telescopes under the extreme environment using a remote-controlled robot / Author(s): Shota Narasaki; Noboru Kawaguchi; Masaki Hirano; Toshitaka Nakaoji; Yutaka Ezaki; Yusuke Saruta; Hayato Hoshino; Masaki Haruna; Rui Michida; Yosuke Tomida; Yoshitaka Koda; Toru Sato

The impact of lunar illumination on narrow-band wide-field surveys / Author(s): Milena Hygino; Alessandro Ederoclite; Héctor Vázquez Ramió; Jesús Varela; Andrés Javier Cenarro; Antonio Marín-Franch

WSO-UV scheduling optimisation: idempotent algebra approach / Author(s): Olga Basargina; Mikhail Sachkov

Preparing for the DKIST operations commissioning phase science operations specialists' perspective / Author(s): Andres Parraguez; Anastasia Alexov; Alexandra Tritschler; Thomas Rimmele; Manuel Diaz Alfaro; Doug Gilliam; Hillary Head; David Morris; Nuria Wright-Garba

How orbital fit uncertainties impact dynamic scheduling / Author(s): Corey Spohn; Dmitry Savransky

Long term monitoring of the VST through telescope log data / Author(s): P. Schipani; G. Capasso; M. Colapietro; S. D'Orsi; L. Marty; F. Perrotta; S. Savarese

The Gaia grid of spectro-photometric standard stars / Author(s): N. Sanna; E. Pancino; G. Altavilla; S. Marinoni; M. Rainer

Development of flexible and useful archive system storing observation data of various telescopes / Author(s): Akira Yoshino; Koji Nakamura; Makoto Shizugami; Emi Ikeda; Kyoko Ashitagawa; George Kosugi; Kazufumi Torii; Shigeru Takahashi; Jun Maekawa; Takeshi Kamazaki.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-5106-3686-2