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13 December 2020 Vera C. Rubin Observatory auxiliary telescope commissioning as a control system pathfinder
Patrick Ingraham, Andy W. Clements, Tiago Ribeiro, Michael A. Reuter, Merlin Fisher-Levine, Joshua Hoblitt, Robert H. Lupton, Sandrine Thomas, Christopher W. Stubbs, Kirk T. Arndt, Nick Callahan, Charles F. Claver, Franco Colleoni, Luis Corral, Peter Doherty, Frossie Economou, Angel Fausti Neto, Tim Jenness, Htut Khine, K. Simon Krughoff, Nicholas Mondrik, Felipe Menanteau, David J. Mills, William O'Mullane, Kevin A Reil, Mario Rivera, Brian Stalder, Jacques Sebag, Ian Shipsey, Roberto Tighe, Adam J. Thornton, Andres Villalobos, Oliver Wiecha
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Proceedings Volume 11452, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VI; 114520U (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561112
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2020, Online Only
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The construction of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is well underway, and when completed the telescope will carry out a precision photometric survey, scanning the entire sky visible from Chile every three days. The photometric performance of the survey is expected to be dominated by systematics; therefore, multiple calibration systems have been designed to measure, characterize and compensate for these effects, including a dedicated telescope and instrument to measure variations in the atmospheric transmission over the LSST bandpasses. Now undergoing commissioning, the Auxiliary Telescope system is serving as a pathfinder for the development of the Rubin Control systems. This paper presents the current commissioning status of the telescope and control software, and discusses the lessons learned which are applicable to other observatories.
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Patrick Ingraham, Andy W. Clements, Tiago Ribeiro, Michael A. Reuter, Merlin Fisher-Levine, Joshua Hoblitt, Robert H. Lupton, Sandrine Thomas, Christopher W. Stubbs, Kirk T. Arndt, Nick Callahan, Charles F. Claver, Franco Colleoni, Luis Corral, Peter Doherty, Frossie Economou, Angel Fausti Neto, Tim Jenness, Htut Khine, K. Simon Krughoff, Nicholas Mondrik, Felipe Menanteau, David J. Mills, William O'Mullane, Kevin A Reil, Mario Rivera, Brian Stalder, Jacques Sebag, Ian Shipsey, Roberto Tighe, Adam J. Thornton, Andres Villalobos, and Oliver Wiecha "Vera C. Rubin Observatory auxiliary telescope commissioning as a control system pathfinder", Proc. SPIE 11452, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VI, 114520U (13 December 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561112
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Telescopes
Control systems
Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
Observatories
Computer architecture
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