The Simons Observatory: Alarms and Detector Quality Monitoring

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Title: The Simons Observatory: Alarms and Detector Quality Monitoring
Authors: Nguyen, David V., Bhimani, Sanah, Galitzki, Nicholas, Koopman, Brian J., Lashner, Jack, Newburgh, Laura, Silva-Feaver, Max, Yamada, Kyohei
Publication Year: 2024
Collection: Astrophysics
Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
More Details: The Simons Observatory (SO) is a group of modern telescopes dedicated to observing the polarized cosmic microwave background (CMB), transients, and more. The Observatory consists of four telescopes and instruments, with over 60,000 superconducting detectors in total, located at ~5,200 m altitude in the Atacama Desert of Chile. During observations, it is important to ensure the detectors, telescope platforms, calibration and receiver hardware, and site hardware are within operational bounds. To facilitate rapid response when problems arise with any part of the system, it is essential that alerts are generated and distributed to appropriate personnel if components exceed these bounds. Similarly, alerts are generated if the quality of the data has become degraded. In this paper, we describe the SO alarm system we developed within the larger Observatory Control System (OCS) framework, including the data sources, alert architecture, and implementation. We also present results from deploying the alarm system during the commissioning of the SO telescopes and receivers.
Comment: 14 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables. To be presented at SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2024
Document Type: Working Paper
Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.14089
Accession Number: edsarx.2406.14089
Database: arXiv
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