TY - GEN
T1 - Dynamic scheduling for SOXS instrument
T2 - Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VII 2022
AU - SOXS
AU - Asquini, Laura
AU - Landoni, Marco
AU - Young, Dave
AU - Marty, Laurent
AU - Smartt, Stephen J.
AU - Campana, Sergio
AU - Claudi, Riccardo
AU - Schipani, Pietro
AU - Aliverti, Matteo
AU - Battaini, Federico
AU - Baruffolo, Andrea
AU - Ben-Ami, Sagi
AU - Bianco, Andrea
AU - Capasso, Giulio
AU - Cosentino, Rosario
AU - D'Alessio, Francesco
AU - D'Avanzo, Paolo
AU - Hershko, Ofir
AU - Kuncarayakti, Hanindyo
AU - Munari, Matteo
AU - Pignata, Giuliano
AU - Rubin, Adam
AU - Salvatore, Scuderi
AU - Vitali, Fabrizio
AU - Achrèn, Jani
AU - Araiza-Duràn, Josè
AU - Arcavi, Iair
AU - Brucalassi, Anna
AU - Bruch, Rachel
AU - Cappellaro, Enrico
AU - Colapietro, Mirko
AU - Della Valle, Massimo
AU - De Pascale, Marco
AU - Di Benedetto, Rosario
AU - D'Orsi, Sergio
AU - Gal-Yam, Avishay
AU - Genoni, Matteo
AU - Hernandez Díaz, Marcos
AU - Kotilainen, Jari
AU - Li Causi, Gianluca
AU - Mattila, Seppo
AU - Pariani, Giorgio
AU - Rappaport, Micheal
AU - Radhakrishnan, Kalyan
AU - Ricci, Davide
AU - Riva, Marco
AU - Salasnich, Bernardo
AU - Zanmar Sanchez, Ricardo
AU - Stritzinger, Maximilian
AU - Ventura, Hector
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - We present development progress of the scheduler for the Son Of X-Shooter (SOXS) instrument at the ESO-NTT 3.58-m telescope. SOXS will be a single object spectroscopic facility, consisting of a two-arms high-efficiency spectrograph covering the spectral range 350-2000 nm with a mean resolving power R≈4500. SOXS will be uniquely dedicated to the UV-visible and near infrared follow up of astrophysical transients, with a very wide pool of targets available from the streaming services of wide-field telescopes, current and future. This instrument will serve a variety of scientific scopes in the astrophysical community, with each scope eliciting its specific requirements for observation planning, that the observing scheduler has to meet. Due to directions from the European Southern Observatory (ESO), the instrument will be operated only by La Silla staff, with no astronomer present on the mountain. This implies a new challenge for the scheduling process, requiring a fully automated algorithm that should be able to present the operator not only with and ordered list of optimal targets, but also with optimal back-ups, should anything in the observing conditions change. This imposes a fast-response capability to the scheduler, without compromising the optimization process, that ensures good quality of the observations. In this paper we present the current state of the scheduler, that is now almost complete, and of its web interface.
AB - We present development progress of the scheduler for the Son Of X-Shooter (SOXS) instrument at the ESO-NTT 3.58-m telescope. SOXS will be a single object spectroscopic facility, consisting of a two-arms high-efficiency spectrograph covering the spectral range 350-2000 nm with a mean resolving power R≈4500. SOXS will be uniquely dedicated to the UV-visible and near infrared follow up of astrophysical transients, with a very wide pool of targets available from the streaming services of wide-field telescopes, current and future. This instrument will serve a variety of scientific scopes in the astrophysical community, with each scope eliciting its specific requirements for observation planning, that the observing scheduler has to meet. Due to directions from the European Southern Observatory (ESO), the instrument will be operated only by La Silla staff, with no astronomer present on the mountain. This implies a new challenge for the scheduling process, requiring a fully automated algorithm that should be able to present the operator not only with and ordered list of optimal targets, but also with optimal back-ups, should anything in the observing conditions change. This imposes a fast-response capability to the scheduler, without compromising the optimization process, that ensures good quality of the observations. In this paper we present the current state of the scheduler, that is now almost complete, and of its web interface.
KW - ESO-NTT telescope
KW - Scheduling
KW - SOXS
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85140092028&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1117/12.2628890
DO - 10.1117/12.2628890
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85140092028
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
BT - Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VII
A2 - Ibsen, Jorge
A2 - Chiozzi, Gianluca
PB - SPIE
Y2 - 17 July 2022 through 21 July 2022
ER -