Mr. Russell D. Kackley Profile

Russell D. Kackley

Software Engineer at Subaru Telescope NAOJ

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Proceedings Article | 15 August 2024 Presentation + Paper

Presentation + Paper

Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) for Subaru Telescope: progressing final steps to science operation

Naoyuki Tamura, Kiyoto Yabe, Shintaro Koshida, Yuki Moritani, Masayuki Tanaka, Miho Ishigaki, Yuki Ishizuka, Yukiko Kamata, Ali Allaoui, Akira Arai, Stéphane Arnouts, Rudy Barette, Robert Barkhouser, Eddie Bergeron, Patrick Blanchard, Neven Caplar, Michael Carle, Pierre-Yves Chabaud, Yin-Chang Chang, Hsin-Yo Chen, Richard C. Chou, Judith Cohen, Ricardo Costa, Thibaut Crauchet, Rodorigo de Almeida, Antonio de Oliveira, Ligia de Oliveira, Kjetil Dohlen, Leandro dos Santos, László Dobos, Richard Ellis, Steve Ertel, Maximilian Fabricius, Décio Ferreira, Hisanori Furusawa, Wilfred Gee, Javier Garciá-Carpio, Roman Gerasimov, Mirek Golebiowski, Aidan Gray, James Gunn, ChangHoon Hahn, Satoshi Hamano, Randolph Hammond, Albert Harding, Takashi Hattori, Kota Hayashi, Wanqiu He, Timothy Heckman, Stephen Hope, Shu-Fu Hsu, Pin-Jie Huang, Marc Jaquet, Eric Jeschke, Christian Jespersen, Yipeng Jing, Russell Kackley, Jennifer Karr, Satoshi Kawanomoto, Masahiko Kimura, Evan Kirby, Michitaro Koike, Eiichiro Komatsu, Yusei Koyama, Vincent Le Brun, Arnaud Le Fur, David Le Mignant, Gerald Lemson, Yen-Ting Lin, Hung-Hsu Ling, Craig Loomis, Robert Lupton, Fabrice Madec, Danilo Marchesini, Lucas Marrara, Dmitry Medvedev, Sogo Mineo, Arik Mitschang, Satoshi Miyazaki, Kumiko Morihana, Takahiro Morishima, Hitoshi Murayama, Graham Murray, Sakurako Okamoto, Hirofumi Okita, Masato Onodera, Vera Passegger, Joshua Peebles, Paul Price, Tae-Soo Pyo, Lucio Ramos, Daniel Reiley, Martin Reinecke, Mitsuko Roberts, Josemar Rosa, Julien Rousselle, Kody Rubio, Kiaina Schubert, Michael Seiffert, Jared Siegel, Stephen Smee, Laerte Sodré, Michael Strauss, Tomomi Sunayama, Christian Surace, Masahiro Takada, Yuhei Takagi, Ichi Tanaka, Yoko Tanaka, Aniruddha Thakar, Didier Vibert, Shiang-Yu Wang, Chih-Yi Wen, Suzanne Werner, Matthew Wung, Chi-Hung Yan, Naoki Yasuda, Hiroshige Yoshida

Proceedings Volume 13096, 1309605 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3015967

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Equipment, Engineering, Cameras, Calibration, Observatories, Stars, Near infrared, Observational astronomy, Spectrographs

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The instrumentation of the Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS), a next generation facility instrument on the Subaru telescope, is now in the final phase of its commissioning process and its general, open-use operations for sciences will provisionally start in 2025. The instrument enables simultaneous spectroscopy with 2386 individual fibers distributed over a very wide (∼1.3 degrees in diameter) field of view on the Subaru’s prime focus. The spectra cover a wide range of wavelengths from 380nm to 1260nm in one exposure in the Low-Resolution (LR) mode (while the visible red channel has the Medium-Resolution (MR) mode as well that covers 710−885nm). The system integration activities at the observatory on Maunakea in Hawaii have been continuing since the arrival of the Metrology Camera System in 2018. On-sky engineering tests and observations have also been carried out continually since September 2021 and, despite various difficulties in interlacing commissioning processes with development activities on the schedule and addressing some major issues on hardware and software, the team successfully observed many targeted stars as intended over the entire field of view (Engineering First Light) in September 2022. Then in parallel to the arrival, integration and commissioning of more hardware components, validations and optimizations of the performance and operation of the instrument are ongoing. The accuracy of the fiber positioning process and the speed of the fiber reconfiguration process have been recently confirmed to be ∼ 20−30μm for 95% of allocated fibers, and ∼130 seconds, respectively. While precise quantitative analyses are still in progress, the measured throughput has been confirmed to be consistent with the model where the information from various sub-components and sub-assemblies is integrated. Long integration of relatively faint objects are being taken to validate an expected increase of signal-to-noise ratio as more exposures are taken and co-added without any serious systematic errors from, e.g., sky subtraction process. The PFS science operation will be carried out in a queue mode by default and various developments, implementations and validations have been underway accordingly in parallel to the instrument commissioning activities. Meetings and sessions are arranged continually with the communities of potential PFS users on multiple scales, and discussions are iterated for mutual understanding and possible optimization of the rules and procedures over a wide range of processes such as proposal submission, observation planning, data acquisition and data delivery. The end-to-end processes of queue observations including successive exposures with updated plans based on assessed qualities of the data from past observations are being tested during engineering observations, and further optimizations are being undertaken. In this contribution, a top-level summary of these achievements and ongoing progresses and future perspectives will be provided.

Proceedings Article | 25 July 2024 Poster + Paper

Poster + Paper

Datasink: an efficient open-source system for reliable transfers of observatory data and jobs

Eric Jeschke, Takeshi Inagaki, Russell Kackley

Proceedings Volume 13101, 131013E (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3019063

KEYWORDS: Observatories, Equipment, Telescopes, Data archive systems, Control systems, Connectors, Bridges, Printing, Internet, Distributed computing

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Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Poster + Paper

Poster + Paper

Subaru telescope control system simulator

Russell Kackley, Nickolas E. Rosenberg, Eric Jeschke, Takeshi Inagaki

Proceedings Volume 11452, 114522S (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2560532

KEYWORDS: Device simulation, Telescopes, Control systems, Software engineering, Cameras, Domes, Camera shutters, Mirrors

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Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Presentation + Paper

Presentation + Paper

Virtualizing observation infrastructure in three axes at Subaru Telescope

Eric Jeschke, Russell Kackley, Takeshi Inagaki

Proceedings Volume 11452, 114520I (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2551935

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Proceedings Article | 8 August 2016 Paper

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Virtualizing observation computing infrastructure at Subaru Telescope

Eric Jeschke, Takeshi Inagaki, Russell Kackley, Kiaina Schubert, Philip Tait

Proceedings Volume 9913, 99132B (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2233831

KEYWORDS: Astronomical telescopes, Astronomical telescopes, Control systems, Telescopes, Computing systems, Observatories, Astronomy, Instrument modeling, Data analysis, Operating systems, Switches

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Proceedings Article | 27 July 2016 Paper

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Laser traffic control system upgrades for Maunakea

Paul Stomski, Randy Campbell, Tom Cumming, Russell Kackley, Shui Kwok, Jim Thomas

Proceedings Volume 9909, 99095J (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2230832

KEYWORDS: Laser guide stars, Laser scattering, Control systems, Telescopes, Astronomy, Space telescopes, Observatories, Boron, Keck Observatory, Astronomical telescopes

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Proceedings Article | 24 September 2012 Paper

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A next-generation open-source toolkit for FITS file image viewing

Eric Jeschke, Takeshi Inagaki, Russell Kackley

Proceedings Volume 8451, 845102 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.924930

KEYWORDS: Astronomy, Current controlled current source, Astronomical telescopes, Telescopes, Control systems, Computer architecture

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Proceedings Article | 19 July 2010 Paper

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Integration of SCUBA-2 within the JCMT Observatory Control System

Craig Walther, Xiaofeng Gao, Dennis Kelly, Russell Kackley, Tim Jenness

Proceedings Volume 7740, 77400Y (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857879

KEYWORDS: Computing systems, Control systems, Data acquisition, Observatories, Telescopes, Data archive systems, Astronomy, Data communications, Software development, Data processing

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Proceedings Article | 19 July 2010 Paper

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JCMT Telescope Control System upgrades for SCUBA-2

Russell Kackley, Douglas Scott, Edward Chapin, Per Friberg

Proceedings Volume 7740, 77401Z (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857397

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Control systems, Heterodyning, Astronomy, Astronomical telescopes, Observatories, Human-machine interfaces, Computing systems, Operating systems, Raster graphics

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Proceedings Article | 18 July 2008 Paper

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HARP: a submillimetre heterodyne array receiver operating on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

H. Smith, J. Buckle, R. Hills, G. Bell, J. Richer, E. Curtis, S. Withington, J. Leech, R. Williamson, W. Dent, P. Hastings, R. Redman, B. Wooff, K. Yeung, P. Friberg, C. Walther, R. Kackley, T. Jenness, R. Tilanus, J. Dempsey, M. Kroug, T. Zijlstra, T. Klapwijk

Proceedings Volume 7020, 70200Z (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.790707

KEYWORDS: Calibration, Control systems, Receivers, Sensors, Mirrors, Imaging systems, Astronomy, Heterodyning, Staring arrays, Telescopes

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Proceedings Article | 30 September 2004 Paper

Paper

The commissioning of and first results from the UIST imager spectrometer

Suzanne Ramsay Howat, Stephen Todd, Sandy Leggett, Chris Davis, Mel Strachan, Alastair Borrowman, Maureen Ellis, Jim Elliot, David Gostick, Russell Kackley, Matthew Rippa

Proceedings Volume 5492, (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.551673

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Imaging spectroscopy, Spectroscopy, Astronomy, Spectroscopes, Infrared radiation, Image quality, Cameras, Infrared imaging, Spatial resolution

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Proceedings Article | 15 September 2004 Paper

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The JCMT observing queue and recipe sequencer

Russell Kackley, Nicholas Rees, Craig Walther, Tim Jenness

Proceedings Volume 5496, (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.550646

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Calibration, Control systems, Human-machine interfaces, Astronomical telescopes, Databases, Observatories, Receivers, Switches, Switching

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Proceedings Article | 13 December 2002 Paper

Paper

JCMT/UKIRT telescope control system

Russell Kackley, Nicholas Rees, Jeremy Bailey

Proceedings Volume 4848, (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.461562

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Control systems, Observatories, Astronomical telescopes, Databases, Mirrors, Interfaces, Astronomy, Operating systems, Instrument modeling

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Proceedings Article | 13 December 2002 Paper

Paper

JCMT observatory control system

Nicholas Rees, Frossie Economou, Tim Jenness, Russell Kackley, Craig Walther, William Dent, Martin Folger, Xiaofeng Gao, Dennis Kelly, John Lightfoot, Ian Pain, Gary Hovey, Russell Redman

Proceedings Volume 4848, (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.461306

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Control systems, Observatories, Interfaces, Data acquisition, Heterodyning, Calibration, Infrared telescopes, Raster graphics, Infrared radiation

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Proceedings Article | 16 June 2000 Paper

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ORAC: a modern observing system for UKIRT

Alan Bridger, Gillian Wright, Frossie Economou, Min Tan, Malcolm Currie, David Pickup, Andrew Adamson, Nicholas Rees, Maren Purves, Russell Kackley

Proceedings Volume 4009, (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.388393

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Control systems, Gemini Observatory, Observatories, Data storage, Astronomy, Data acquisition, Java, Databases, Software development

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