An automated scheduling software package and queue system for the NEID radial velocity spectrometer

Eli Golub; Mark Everett; Sarah E Logsdon; Jayadev Rajagopal; Erik Timmermann

doi:10.1117/12.2576189

13 December 2020 An automated scheduling software package and queue system for the NEID radial velocity spectrometer

Eli Golub, Mark Everett, Sarah E Logsdon, Jayadev Rajagopal, Erik Timmermann

Proceedings Volume 11449, Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems VIII; 114491F (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2576189
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2020, Online Only

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NEID is an optical, fiber-fed, precision Doppler radial-velocity spectrometer system located at the WIYN 3.5 meter Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory, intended for open-access use within the US national community. NEID was designed to achieve 50 cm/s or better radial velocity precision, permitting the characterization of terrestrial mass exoplanets orbiting host stars identified by recent NASA missions such as TESS. NEID will be used during 40-50% of all observing time at WIYN and will operate in a queue scheduled mode. The NEID queue will enable astronomers to make frequent adjustments to their individual observing programs within the NEID queue. NEID's observing constraints were developed with high-precision RV exoplanet studies as the primary use case, but enable a variety of observing schemes. Here, we describe the scheduling and queue algorithms and how queue users can configure their programs to meet science goals.

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Eli Golub, Mark Everett, Sarah E Logsdon, Jayadev Rajagopal, and Erik Timmermann "An automated scheduling software package and queue system for the NEID radial velocity spectrometer", Proc. SPIE 11449, Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems VIII, 114491F (13 December 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2576189

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