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 Jeness; 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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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 Jeness, Htut Khine, K. Simon KrughoffNicholas 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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Abstract

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.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VI
Editors	Juan C. Guzman, Jorge Ibsen
Publisher	SPIE
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510636910
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561112
State	Published - 2020
Event	Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VI 2020 - Virtual, Online, United States Duration: Dec 14 2020 → Dec 18 2020

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	11452
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

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Conference	Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VI 2020
Country/Territory	United States
City	Virtual, Online
Period	12/14/20 → 12/18/20

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Computer Science Applications
Applied Mathematics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Keywords

Vera C. Rubin Observatory
atmospheric transmission
calibration
commissioning
control software
integration
pathfinder
photometry

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Ingraham, P., Clements, A. W., Ribeiro, T., Reuter, M. A., Fisher-Levine, M., Hoblitt, J., Lupton, R. H., Thomas, S., Stubbs, C. W., Arndt, K. T., Callahan, N., Claver, C. F., Colleoni, F., Corral, L., Doherty, P., Economou, F., Fausti Neto, A., Jeness, T., Khine, H., ... Wiecha, O. (2020). Vera C. Rubin Observatory auxiliary telescope commissioning as a control system pathfinder. In J. C. Guzman, & J. Ibsen (Eds.), Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VI Article 114520U (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 11452). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561112

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Vera C. Rubin Observatory auxiliary telescope commissioning as a control system pathfinder. / Ingraham, Patrick; Clements, Andy W.; Ribeiro, Tiago et al.
Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VI. ed. / Juan C. Guzman; Jorge Ibsen. SPIE, 2020. 114520U (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 11452).

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Ingraham P, Clements AW, Ribeiro T, Reuter MA, Fisher-Levine M, Hoblitt J et al. Vera C. Rubin Observatory auxiliary telescope commissioning as a control system pathfinder. In Guzman JC, Ibsen J, editors, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VI. SPIE. 2020. 114520U. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering). doi: 10.1117/12.2561112

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