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Gustavo Arriagada

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Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Paper

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The GMT site, enclosure, and facilities: 2020 design and construction update

Bruce Bigelow, Gustavo Arriagada, Robert Turner, Christopher Madden, Francisco Meza, Hector Swett, Bahram Talison, Patricio Verdello, Eduardo Villar, Miroslav Vulinovic

Proceedings Volume 11445, 1144508 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2560856

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Optical instrument design, Large telescopes, Lanthanum, Computer architecture, Computational fluid dynamics, Observatories, Buildings

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Proceedings Article | 6 July 2018 Presentation + Paper

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GMT site, enclosure, and facilities: design and construction update

Eric Grigel, Bruce Bigelow, William Burgett, Gustavo Arriagada, Robert Turner, Bahram Talison, Christopher Madden, Francisco Figueroa, Jose Teran, Eric Manuel

Proceedings Volume 10700, 107000A (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2314554

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Space telescopes, Optical instrument design, Device simulation, Computational fluid dynamics, Mirrors, Roads, Observatories, Optical turbulence, 3D modeling

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Proceedings Article | 16 August 2016 Paper

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Gemini Observatory base facility operations: systems engineering process and lessons learned

Andrew Serio, Martin Cordova, Gustavo Arriagada, Andy Adamson, Madeline Close, Dolores Coulson, Atsuko Nitta, Arturo Nunez

Proceedings Volume 9911, 99110U (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2231831

KEYWORDS: Ferroelectric materials, Gemini Observatory, Systems engineering, Observatories, Telescopes, Safety, Control systems, Clouds, Document management, Cameras

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Proceedings Article | 10 August 2016 Paper

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Management aspects of Gemini's base facility operations project

Gustavo Arriagada, Atsuko Nitta, A. Adamson, Arturo Nunez, Andrew Serio, Martin Cordova

Proceedings Volume 9911, 99111R (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232124

KEYWORDS: Ferroelectric materials, Observatories, Earthquakes, Gemini Observatory, Telescopes, Control systems, Photonic integrated circuits, Safety, Document management, Sensors

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Gemini’s Base Facilities Operations (BFO) Project provided the capabilities to perform routine nighttime operations without anyone on the summit. The expected benefits were to achieve money savings and to become an enabler of the future development of remote operations.

The project was executed using a tailored version of Prince2 project management methodology.

It was schedule driven and managing it demanded flexibility and creativity to produce what was needed, taking into consideration all the constraints present at the time: Time available to implement BFO at Gemini North (GN), two years.

The project had to be done in a matrix resources environment.

There were only three resources assigned exclusively to BFO.

The implementation of new capabilities had to be done without disrupting operations.

And we needed to succeed, introducing the new operational model that implied Telescope and instrumentation Operators (Science Operations Specialists - SOS) relying on technology to assess summit conditions.

To meet schedule we created a large number of concurrent smaller projects called Work Packages (WP).

To be reassured that we would successfully implement BFO, we initially spent a good portion of time and effort, collecting and learning about user’s needs. This was done through close interaction with SOSs, Observers, Engineers and Technicians.

Once we had a clear understanding of the requirements, we took the approach of implementing the "bare minimum" necessary technology that would meet them and that would be maintainable in the long term.

Another key element was the introduction of the "gradual descent" concept. In this, we increasingly provided tools to the SOSs and Observers to prevent them from going outside the control room during nighttime operations, giving them the opportunity of familiarizing themselves with the new tools over a time span of several months. Also, by using these tools at an early stage, Engineers and Technicians had more time for debugging, problem fixing and systems usage and servicing training as well.

Proceedings Article | 9 August 2016 Paper

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Meeting the challenges of bringing a new base facility operation model to Gemini Observatory

Atsuko Nitta, Gustavo Arriagada, A. Adamson, Martin Cordova, Arturo Nunez, Andrew Serio, Scot Kleinman

Proceedings Volume 9911, 99111Q (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232084

KEYWORDS: Gemini Observatory, Telescopes, Systems modeling, Ferroelectric materials, Observatories, Phase modulation, Systems engineering, Lead, Environmental monitoring, Control systems

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Proceedings Article | 15 July 2016 Paper

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Gemini base facility operations environmental monitoring: key systems and tools for the remote operator

Martin Cordova, Andrew Serio, Francisco Meza, Gustavo Arriagada, Hector Swett, Jesse Ball, Paul Collins, Neal Masuda, Javier Fuentes

Proceedings Volume 9910, 99101X (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2231708

KEYWORDS: Gemini Observatory, Telescopes, Photonic integrated circuits, Safety, Electronics, Observatories, Space telescopes, Large telescopes, Optical instrument design

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Proceedings Article | 7 August 2014 Paper

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Life with quintuplets: transitioning GeMS into regular operations

Vincent Garrel, Marcos Van Dam, Benoît Neichel, Fabrice Vidal, Gaetano Sivo, Eduardo Marin, Vanessa Montes, Andrew Serio, Gustavo Arriagada, Chadwick Trujillo, William Rambold, Pedro Gigoux, Ramon Galvez, Cristian Moreno, Constanza Araujo Hauck, Tomislav Vucina Parga, Jeff Donahue, Claudio Marchant, Gaston Gausachs, Fabian Collao, Eleazar Carrasco Damele, Peter Pessev, Ariel Lopez

Proceedings Volume 9148, 914829 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2056378

KEYWORDS: Adaptive optics, Stars, Gemini Observatory, Telescopes, Wavefront sensors, Electroluminescent displays, Laser guide stars, Actuators, K band, Software development

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The Gemini Multi-conjugate adaptive optics System (GeMS) at the Gemini South telescope in Cerro Pachon is the first sodium Laser Guide Star (LGS) adaptive optics (AO) system with multiple guide stars. It uses five LGSs and two deformable mirrors (DMs) to measure and compensate for distortions induced by atmospheric turbulence. After its 2012 commissioning phase, it is now transitioning into regular operations. Although GeMS has unique scientific capabilities, it remains a challenging instrument to maintain, operate and upgrade. In this paper, we summarize the latest news and results. First, we describe the engineering work done this past year, mostly during our last instrument shutdown in 2013 austral winter, covering many subsystems: an erroneous reconjugation of the Laser guide star wavefront sensor, the correction of focus field distortion for the natural guide star wavefront sensor and engineering changes dealing with our laser and its beam transfer optics. We also describe our revamped software, developed to integrate the instrument into the Gemini operational model, and the new optimization procedures aiming to reduce GeMS time overheads. Significant software improvements were achieved on the acquisition of natural guide stars by our natural guide star wavefront sensor, on the automation of tip-tilt and higher-order loop optimization, and on the tomographic non-common path aberration compensation. We then go through the current operational scheme and present the plan for the next years. We offered 38 nights in our last semester. We review the current system efficiency in term of raw performance, completed programs and time overheads. We also present our current efforts to merge GeMS into the Gemini base facility project, where night operations are all reliably driven from our La Serena headquarter, without the need for any spotter. Finally we present the plan for the future upgrades, mostly dedicated toward improving the performance and reliability of the system. Our first upgrade called NGS2, a project lead by the Australian National University, based a focal plane camera will replace the current low throughput natural guide wavefront sensor. On a longer term, we are also planning the (re-)integration of our third deformable mirror, lost during the early phase of commissioning. Early plans to improve the reliability of our laser will be presented.

Proceedings Article | 6 August 2014 Paper

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First performance of the GeMS+GMOS system

Pascale Hibon, Benoit Neichel, Vincent Garrel, Benjamin Prout, Francois Rigaut, Alice Koning, Gaetano Sivo, German Gimeno, Rodrigo Carrasco, Claudia Winge, Peter Pessev, Andrew Serio, Gustavo Arriagada

Proceedings Volume 9147, 91478T (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055196

KEYWORDS: Stars, Gemini Observatory, Adaptive optics, Electroluminescent displays, Photons, Charge-coupled devices, Astronomical imaging, Spectrographs, Visible radiation, Observatories

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Proceedings Article | 25 September 2012 Paper

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Science readiness of the Gemini MCAO System: GeMS

Benoit Neichel, Franҫois Rigaut, Andrew Serio, Gustavo Arriagada, Maxime Boccas, Céline d'Orgeville, Vincent Fesquet, Chadwick Trujillo, William Rambold, Ramon Galvez, Gaston Gausachs, Tomislav Vucina, Vanessa Montes, Cristian Urrutia, Cristian Moreno, Sarah Diggs, Claudio Araya, Javier Lührs, Gelys Trancho, Matthieu Bec, Claudio Marchant, Fabian Collao, Eleazar Carrasco, Michelle Edwards, Peter Pessev, Ariel Lopez, Herman Diaz

Proceedings Volume 8447, 84474Q (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.925285

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Stars, Electroluminescent displays, Gemini Observatory, Adaptive optics, Sensors, Mirrors, Observatories, Beam splitters, Turbulence

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Proceedings Article | 24 September 2012 Paper

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Gemini's instrumentation program: latest results and long-range plan

Maxime Boccas, S. Kleinman, Stephen Goodsell, Eric Tollestrup, Andrew Adamson, Gustavo Arriagada, Julian Christou, Patricio Gonzalez, Kevin Hanna, Markus Hartung, Manuel Lazo, Rachel Mason, Benoît Neichel, Gabriel Perez, Doug Simons, Brian Walls, John White

Proceedings Volume 8446, 844606 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.925516

KEYWORDS: Gemini Observatory, Spectrographs, Observatories, Adaptive optics, Telescopes, Sensors, Gemini Planet Imager, Mid-IR, Charge-coupled devices, Stars

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Proceedings Article | 13 September 2012 Paper

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GeMS first on-sky results

Franҫois Rigaut, Benoit Neichel, Maxime Boccas, Céline d'Orgeville, Gustavo Arriagada, Vincent Fesquet, Sarah Diggs, Claudio Marchant, Gaston Gausach, William Rambold, Javier Luhrs, Shane Walker, Eleazar Carrasco-Damele, Michelle Edwards, Peter Pessev, Ramon Galvez, Tomislav Vucina, Claudio Araya, Alejandro Gutierrez, Angelic Ebbers, Andrew Serio, Cristian Moreno, Cristian Urrutia, Rolando Rogers, Roberto Rojas, Chadwick Trujillo, Bryan Miller, Douglas Simons, Ariel Lopez, Vanessa Montes, Herman Diaz, Felipe Daruich, Felipe Colazo, Matthieu Bec, Gelys Trancho, Michael Sheehan, Peter McGregor, Peter Young, Matthew Doolan, Jan van Harmelen, Brent Ellerbroek, Damien Gratadour, Aurea Garcia-Rissmann

Proceedings Volume 8447, 84470I (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.927061

KEYWORDS: Stars, Adaptive optics, Point spread functions, Error analysis, Calibration, Gemini Observatory, Actuators, Turbulence, Image quality, Observatories

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Proceedings Article | 13 September 2012 Paper

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Science readiness of the Gemini MCAO system: GeMS

Benoit Neichel, François Rigaut, Andrew Serio, Gustavo Arriagada, Maxime Boccas, Céline d'Orgeville, Vincent Fesquet, Chadwick Trujillo, William Rambold, Ramon Galvez, Gaston Gausachs, Tomislav Vucina, Vanessa Montes, Cristian Urrutia, Cristian Moreno, Sarah Diggs, Claudio Araya, Javier Lührs, Gelys Trancho, Matthieu Bec, Claudio Marchant, Fabian Collao, Eleazar Carrasco, Michelle Edwards, Peter Pessev, Ariel Lopez, Hernan Diaz

Proceedings Volume 8447, 84470W (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.925915

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Stars, Electroluminescent displays, Gemini Observatory, Adaptive optics, Sensors, Mirrors, Observatories, Beam splitters, Turbulence

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Proceedings Article | 13 September 2012 Paper

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Gemini South multi-conjugate adaptive optics (GeMS) laser guide star facility on-sky performance results

Céline d'Orgeville, Sarah Diggs, Vincent Fesquet, Benoit Neichel, William Rambold, François Rigaut, Andrew Serio, Claudio Araya, Gustavo Arriagada, Rodrigo Balladares, Matthieu Bec, Maxime Boccas, Camila Duran, Angelic Ebbers, Ariel Lopez, Claudio Marchant, Eduardo Marin, Vanessa Montes, Cristian Moreno, Eric Petit Vega, Carlos Segura, Gelys Trancho, Chad Trujillo, Cristian Urrutia, Patricio Veliz, Tomislav Vucina

Proceedings Volume 8447, 84471Q (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.925813

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Gemini Observatory, Sodium, Laser safety, Mirrors, Laser systems engineering, Adaptive optics, Laser guide stars, Observatories, Control systems

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Proceedings Article | 15 July 2010 Paper

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Gemini Observatory instrumentation: a review of the past, present, and future on our 10th anniversary

Eric Tollestrup, Scot Kleinman, Stephen Goodsell, Gustavo Arriagada, Manuel Lazo, Rolando Rogers, Ramon Galvez, John White

Proceedings Volume 7735, 773505 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857563

KEYWORDS: Gemini Observatory, Observatories, Spectrographs, Adaptive optics, Telescopes, Gemini Planet Imager, Imaging systems, Charge-coupled devices, Sensors, Astronomical imaging

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Proceedings Article | 15 July 2008 Paper

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The Gemini MCAO bench: system overview and lab integration

Matthieu Bec, Francois Rigaut, Ramon Galvez, Gustavo Arriagada, Maxime Boccas, Gaston Gausachs, Damien Gratadour, Eric James, Roberto Rojas, Rolando Rogers, Michael Sheehan, Gelys Trancho, Tomislav Vucina

Proceedings Volume 7015, 701568 (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.790354

KEYWORDS: Gemini Observatory, Electronics, Telescopes, Real-time computing, Wavefront sensors, Mirrors, Sensors, Stars, Control systems, Laser guide stars

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Proceedings Article | 10 July 2008 Paper

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The Gemini South MCAO laser guide star facility: getting ready for first light

Céline d'Orgeville, Felipe Daruich, Gustavo Arriagada, Matthieu Bec, Maxime Boccas, Stacy Bombino, Chris Carter, Chas Cavedoni, Fabian Collao, Paul Collins, Eric James, Stan Karewicz, Manuel Lazo, Diego Maltes, Ron Mouser, Gabriel Perez, François Rigaut, Roberto Rojas, Mike Sheehan, Gelys Trancho, Vicente Vergara, Tomislav Vucina

Proceedings Volume 7015, 70152P (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.788970

KEYWORDS: Gemini Observatory, Telescopes, Mirrors, Laser safety, Safety, Cameras, Stars, Laser guide stars, Adaptive optics, Laser beam propagation

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Proceedings Article | 7 July 2008 Paper

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GeMS: Gemini Mcao System: current status and commissioning plans

Maxime Boccas, François Rigaut, Damien Gratadour, Céline d'Orgeville, Matthieu Bec, Felipe Daruich, Gabriel Perez, Gustavo Arriagada, Stacy Bombino, Chris Carter, Chas Cavedoni, Fabian Collao, Paul Collins, Pablo Diaz, Angelic Ebbers, Ramon Galvez, Gaston Gausachs, Steve Hardash, Eric James, Stan Karewicz, Manuel Lazo, Diego Maltes, Ron Mouser, Rolando Rogers, Roberto Rojas, Michael Sheehan, Gelys Trancho, Vicente Vergara, Tomislav Vucina

Proceedings Volume 7015, 70150X (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.788958

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Gemini Observatory, Adaptive optics, Mirrors, Calibration, Laser stabilization, Sensors, Stars, Laser safety, Laser guide stars

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Proceedings Article | 27 June 2006 Paper

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Laser guide star upgrade of Altair at Gemini North

Maxime Boccas, Francois Rigaut, Matthieu Bec, Benjamin Irarrazaval, Eric James, Angelic Ebbers, Celine d'Orgeville, Kenny Grace, Gustavo Arriagada, Stan Karewicz, Mike Sheehan, John White, Simon Chan

Proceedings Volume 6272, 62723L (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.670842

KEYWORDS: Mirrors, Telescopes, Sensors, Gemini Observatory, Adaptive optics, Sodium, Laser guide stars, Control systems, Monochromatic aberrations, Cameras

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