Research Catalog

Title

Advanced software, control, and communications systems for astronomy : 21-22 June, 2004, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom / Hilton Lewis, Gianni Raffi, chairs/editors ; sponsored and published by SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering ; cooperating organizations, AAS--American Astronomical Society (USA) [and others].

Publication

Bellingham, Wash. : SPIE, [2004], ©2004.

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Additional Authors

• Lewis, Hilton.
• Raffi, Gianni.
• Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers.
• American Astronomical Society.

Description

xii, 780 pages : illustrations; 28 cm.

Series Statement

SPIE proceedings series ; v. 5496

Uniform Title

Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering ; v. 5496.

Subjects

• Telescopes > Design and construction > Congresses
• Communication in astronomy > Congresses
• Astronomy > Data processing > Congresses
• Astronomical instruments > Design and construction > Congresses

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and author index.

Contents

• ALMA communications requirements and design / G. Raffi, G. Filippi, K. E. Long and A. Wright -- ALMA test interferometer control system : past experiences and future developments / R. G. Marson, M. Pokorny, J. Kern, F. Stauffer, A. Perrigouard, B. Gustafsson and K. Ramey -- A status update of the VLTI control system / A. Wallander, B. Bauvir, M. Dimmler, R. Donaldson, E. Fedrigo, B. Gilli, N. Housen, A. Huxley and T. Phan Duc -- SOAR TCS : from implementation to operation / G. Schumacher, S. Heathcote and V. Krabbendam -- Development of a state machine sequencer for the Keck interferometer : evolution, development, and lessons learned using a CASE tool approach / L. J. Reder, A. Booth, J. Hsieh, K. R. Summers and W. M. Keck -- The design of 'cancelable' data acquisition environments / K. Shortridge and T. J. Farrell -- Altair interactions / J. Dunn, J.-P. Veran, G. Herriot and M. Smith -- Time to go H[subscript [infinity]]? / T. Erm, Z. Hurak and B. Bauvir -- UML modeling of the LINC-NIRVANA control software / W. Gassler, T. Bertram, F. Briegel, T. M. Driebe, M. Heininger, E. Nussbaum, C. Storz, J. Wang, L. Zealouk, T. M. Herbst, R. Ragazzoni, A. Eckhardt and G. P. Weigelt -- The VISTA IR camera software design / S. M. Beard, S. A. McLay, M. Stewart, N. Bissonauth and P. Biereichel -- The OmegaCAM instrument software : implementation and integration / A. Baruffolo, A. Bortolussi, P. Bagnara and C. Magagna -- ESO-VLT/FLAMES : control software for a multi-object observing facility / D. Popovic, P. Di Marcantonio, P. Santin, T. J. Farrell, E. Pozna and R. Schmulzer -- CFHT MegaPrime guide and focus control system / J. N. Thomas, G. Barrick, W. Cruise and T. Vermeulen -- Active optics and auto-guiding control for VISTA / D. L. Terrett, N. Bissonauth, V. Graffagnino, M. Stewart and W. J. Sutherland -- Real-time operation without a real-time operating system for instrument control and data acquisition / R. Klein, A. Poglitsch, F. Fumi, N. Geis, M. Hamidouche, R. Honle, L. Looney, W. Raab and W. Viehhauser -- ALMA correlator computer systems / J. Pisano, R. Amestica and J. Perez -- Designing a common real-time controller for VLT applications / B. Bauvir, A. Wallander, P. Duhoux, A. Huxley and R. Karban -- The generic pixel server dictionary / N. C. Buchholz and P. N. Daly -- Optimization of SDSU-2 CCD controller hardware and software for CCD mosaics / R. I. Kibrick, C. Wright, S. L. Allen and D. A. Clarke -- The ALMA software architecture / J. Schwarz, A. Farris and H. Sommer -- The ALMA common software : a developer-friendly CORBA-based framework / G. Chiozzi, B. Jeram, H. Sommer, A. Caproni, M. Plesko, M. Sekoranja, K. Zagar, D. W. Fugate, P. Di Marcantonio and R. Cirami -- Container-component model and XML in ALMA ACS / H. Sommer, G. Chiozzi, K. Zagar and M. Volter -- An enterprise software architecture for the green bank telescope (GBT) / N. M. Radziwill, M. Mello, E. Sessoms and A. L. Shelton -- A standard control system for the large millimeter telescope and instruments / K. Souccar, G. Wallace and D. Malin -- James web space telescope : supporting multiple ground system transitions in one year / R. Detter, C. Fatig and J. Steck -- Facing software complexity on large telescopes / G. Swart, D. Bester, J. Brink, C. Gumede and H. J. Schalekamp -- Applying VLT software to a new telescope : methods and observations / M. Stewart, S. M. Beard, A. Borrowman, D. L. Terrett, R. Karban and K. Wirenstrand -- Software engineering practices for the EGO Virgo project / F. Carbognani and J. de Wet -- Telescope networking and user support via remote telescope markup language / F. V. Hessman, C. R. Pennypacker, E. Romero-Colmenero and G. Tuparev -- TALON : the telescope alert operation network system : intelligent linking of distributed autonomous robotic telescopes / R. R. White, J. Wren, H. R. Davis, M. Galassi, D. Starr, W. T. Vestrand and P. Wozniak -- eSTAR : intelligent observing and rapid responses / A. Allan, T. Naylor, I. A. Steele, T. Jenness, B. Cavanagh, F. Economou, E. Saunders, A. Adamson, J. Etherton and C. Mottram -- Optimizing the use of X and VNC protocols for support of remote observing / R. I. Kibrick, S. L. Allen, A. Conrad, T. Stickel and G. D. Wirth -- The study on the scheme of measurement and control for FAST / L. Zhu, R. Nan, S. Wu, W. Zhu and Q. Wang -- Operational performance of the EVLA optical systems LO and IF / S. J. Durand and R. McCool -- An implementation of the ATST virtual instrument model / S. B. Wampler and B. D. Goodrich -- The MONSOON generic pixel server software design / N. C. Buchholz and P. N. Daly -- The MONSOON implementation of the generic pixel server / P. N. Daly and N. C. Buchholz -- Automated software configuration in the MONSOON system / P. N. Daly, N. C. Buchholz and P. C. Moore -- Instrumentation control using the Rabbit 2000 embedded microcontroller / I. S. Schofield and D. A. Naylor -- ACS sampling system : design, implementation, and performance evaluation / P. Di Marcantonio, R. Cirami and G. Chiozzi -- Application of real-time database to LAMOST control system / L. Xu and X. Xu -- Design of PCI-based data acquisition, antenna control, and real-time Web-based database for a solar radio observational system / F. Liu, J. Zhang, Y. Yan, Z. Chen and Y. Liu -- Control software for OSIRIS : an infrared integral-field spectrograph for the Keck adaptive optics system / J. L. Weiss, M. Barczys, J. E. Larkin, A. Honey, M. W. McElwain, T. M. Gasaway and A. Krabbe -- EMIR and OSIRIS instruments : common data acquisition software architecture / J. C. Lopez-Ruiz, E. Joven, P. Lopez, J. J. Diaz, M. Aguiar, A. Herrera, J. V. Gigante, J. Cepa, F. Garzon, J. Patron and A. Perez -- Performance of the Lowell Observatory instrumentation system / B. W. Taylor, E. W. Dunham and J. L. Elliot -- The Goodman spectrograph control system / J. A. Crain, J. C. Clemens and M. Bayliss -- The data flow system for the AAO2 controllers / K. Shortridge, T. J. Farrell, J. A. Bailey and L. G. Waller -- The development process of the LUCIFER control software / M. Jutte, K. L. Polsterer, M. Lehmitz and V. Knierim -- The LBT double prime focus camera control software / A. Di Paola, A. Baruffolo, S. Gallozzi, F. Pedichini and R. Speziali -- Data acquirement and process system based on ethernet for multichannel solar telescope / K. Hu, Y. Deng and X. Ma -- Architecture of the software for LAMOST fiber positioning subsystem / X. Peng, X. Xing, H. Hu, C. Zhai and W. Li -- Slitmasks from observer to telescope : astrometric slitmask manufacturing and control for Keck spectrographs / D. A. Clarke, S. L. Allen, G. D. Wirth and A. C. Phillips -- Software controls for the ATST solar telescope / B. D. Goodrich and S. B. Wampler -- LBT-AdOpt control software / L. Fini, A. Puglisi and A. Riccardi -- Porting and refurbishment of the WSS TNG control software / A. Caproni, A. Zacchei, C. Vuerli and M. Pucillo -- Software and control system for SOAR telescope active optical system (AOS) / A. Sarnik, C. Neufeld, R. J. McGuffie and G. Schumacher -- A CORBA event system for ALMA common software / D. W. Fugate -- The use of object-oriented techniques and CORBA in astronomical instrumentation control systems / N. A. Dipper and C. Blackburn -- Integrating JSky into the large millimeter telescope monitor and control system / D. Malin, K. Souccar and G. Wallace -- A new GUI system for ASPRO / G. Mella and G. Duvert -- Rapid prototyping of the large millimeter telescope monitor and control system for effective user interface design / D. Malin, K. Souccar and G. Wallace -- An embeddable control system for astronomical instrumentation / R. Cirami, M. Comari, C. Corte, D. Golob, P. Di Marcantonio, M. Plesko, M. Pucillo, P. Santin, M. Sekoranja and C. Vuerli -- TWiki as a platform for collaborative software development management / N. M. Radziwill and A. L. Shelton -- The real-time control system of NAOMI / S. J. Goodsell, R. M. Myers, P. Clark and D. Buscher --
• Flexible pointing models for large Arecibo-type optical telescopes / H. J. Schalekamp and G. Swart -- Pointing calibration of the SMA antennas / N. A. Patel and T. K. Sridharan -- The use of RF signal simulation in a radio telescope control system / M. H. Clark -- Control of the Hobby-Eberly telescope primary mirror array with the segment alignment maintenance system / P. Palunas, J. R. Fowler, J. A. Booth, G. Damm and G. H. Ames -- Generic control of robotic telescopes / T. Granzer -- A secure and reliable monitor and control system for remote observing with the large millimeter telescope / G. Wallace, K. Souccar and D. Malin -- Remote secure observing for the Faulkes telescopes / R. J. Smith, I. A. Steele, J. M. Marchant, S. N. Fraser and D. Mucke-Herzberg -- Remote observing capability with Subaru telescope / G. Kosugi, T. Sasaki, M. Yagi, R. Ogasawara, Y. Mizumoto, J. Noumaru, J. A. Kawai, N. Koura, T. Kusumoto, T. Yamamoto, N. Watanabe and K. Ukawa -- Fully integrated control system for the Discovery Channel telescope / O. M. Wiecha and T. A. Sebring -- Control of the TSU 2-m automatic telescope / J. A. Eaton and M. H. Williamson -- The JCMT observing queue and recipe sequencer / R. D. Kackley, N. P. Rees, C. Walther and T. Jenness -- AQuA : an automatic pipeline for fast transients detection / V. Testa, L. A. Antonelli, A. Di Paola, A. Melandri, L. Calzoletti, R. Cunniffe, F. M. Zerbi, G. Chincarini, M. Rodono, P. Conconi, S. Covino, G. Cutispoto, E. Molinari and G. Tosti -- Image analysis algorithms for critically sampled curvature wavefront sensor images in the presence of large intrinsic aberrations / N. Bissonauth, P. Clark, G. B. Dalton, R. M. Myers and W. J. Sutherland -- Planck/LFI DPC pipeline integration and testing / A. Zacchei, C. Vuerli, D. Maino, G. de Gasperis and F. Pasian -- Design and implementation of the spectra reduction and analysis software for LAMOST telescope / A.-L. Luo, Y.-X. Zhang and Y.-H. Zhao -- GO-CART : the GOHSS calibration and reduction tool / G. Li Causi, M. De Luca, F. Vitali and D. Lorenzetti.

ISBN

0819454281

OCLC

• ocm56718673
• SCSB-5082079

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Columbia University Libraries