The WEAVE observatory control system

Sergio Picó; Don Carlos Abrams; Chris Benn; Lilian Dominguez; Cecilia Fariña; Jose Miguel Delgado; Carlos Martin; Diego Cano; Bernardo Salasnich; Steve Guest; Frank Gribbin; Jure Skvarč; Emanuel Gafton; Gavin Dalton; Kevin Middleton; Scott Trager; J. Alfonso Aguerri; Piercarlo Bonifacio; Antonella Vallenari; Esperanza Carrasco

doi:10.1117/12.2312638

10 July 2018 The WEAVE observatory control system

Sergio Picó, Don Carlos Abrams, Chris Benn, Lilian Dominguez, Cecilia Fariña, Jose Miguel Delgado, Carlos Martin, Diego Cano, Bernardo Salasnich, Steve Guest, Frank Gribbin, Jure Skvarč, Emanuel Gafton, Gavin Dalton, Kevin Middleton, Scott Trager, J. Alfonso Aguerri, Piercarlo Bonifacio, Antonella Vallenari, Esperanza Carrasco

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Proceedings Volume 10704, Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems VII; 107042A (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2312638
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2018, Austin, Texas, United States

Abstract

WEAVE is the next-generation spectroscopic facility for the William Herschel Telescope (WHT) ^1,2. WEAVE offers multi-object (1000 fibres) and integral-field spectroscopy at two resolutions (R ~ 5000, 20000) over a 2-deg field of view at prime focus and will mainly provide follow up of ground-based (LOFAR) and space-based (GAIA) surveys.

The Observatory Control System (OCS) is responsible for providing the software control and feedback framework through which WEAVE will be operated. This paper summarizes the design of the different OCS subsystems and the interfaces between them and other WEAVE components.

In the remainder of this paper, Section 2 outlines the other WEAVE systems with which the OCS interacts, Section 3 describes the system architecture, Section 4 comments on system-architecture decisions, Section 5 describes the main components of the OCS, Section 6 outlines the life-cycle of an OCS Observing Block and, finally, Section 7 gives an overview of the OCS testing plan.

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Sergio Picó, Don Carlos Abrams, Chris Benn, Lilian Dominguez, Cecilia Fariña, Jose Miguel Delgado, Carlos Martin, Diego Cano, Bernardo Salasnich, Steve Guest, Frank Gribbin, Jure Skvarč, Emanuel Gafton, Gavin Dalton, Kevin Middleton, Scott Trager, J. Alfonso Aguerri, Piercarlo Bonifacio, Antonella Vallenari, and Esperanza Carrasco "The WEAVE observatory control system", Proc. SPIE 10704, Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems VII, 107042A (10 July 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2312638

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