The DECam DAQ System: Lessons learned after one year of operations

K. Honscheid; A. Elliott; M. Bonati; E. Buckley-Geer; F. Castander; L. Da Costa; H. T. Diehl; J. Eiting; O. Estay; A. Fausti; B. Flaugher; I. Karliner; S. Kuhlmann; I. Mandrichenko; E. Neilsen; K. Patton; K. Reil; A. Roodman; J. Thaler; G. Schumacher; S. Serrano; E. Suchyta; M. Vittone; A. Walker

doi:10.1117/12.2057073

The DECam DAQ System: Lessons learned after one year of operations

K. Honscheid, A. Elliott, M. Bonati, E. Buckley-Geer, F. Castander, L. Da Costa, H. T. Diehl, J. Eiting, O. Estay, A. Fausti, B. Flaugher, I. Karliner, S. Kuhlmann, I. Mandrichenko, E. Neilsen, K. Patton, K. Reil, A. Roodman, J. Thaler, G. SchumacherS. Serrano, E. Suchyta, M. Vittone, A. Walker

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Abstract

The Dark Energy Camera (DECam) is a new 520 Mega Pixel CCD camera with a 3 square degree field of view built for the Dark Energy Survey (DES). DECam is mounted at the prime focus of the Blanco 4-m telescope at the Cerro-Tololo International Observatory (CTIO). DES is a 5-year, high precision, multi-bandpass, photometric survey of 5000 square degrees of the southern sky that started August 2013. In this paper we briefly review SISPI, the data acquisition and control system of the Dark Energy Camera and follow with a discussion of our experience with the system and the lessons learned after one year of survey operations.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy III
Publisher	SPIE
ISBN (Print)	9780819496201
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2057073
State	Published - 2014
Externally published	Yes
Event	Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy III - Montreal, QC, Canada Duration: Jun 22 2014 → Jun 26 2014

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	9152
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

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Conference	Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy III
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Montreal, QC
Period	06/22/14 → 06/26/14

Keywords

Blanco
CTIO
DECam
Dark Energy Survey
camera
control system
data acquisition
instrumentation
survey

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Honscheid, K., Elliott, A., Bonati, M., Buckley-Geer, E., Castander, F., Da Costa, L., Diehl, H. T., Eiting, J., Estay, O., Fausti, A., Flaugher, B., Karliner, I., Kuhlmann, S., Mandrichenko, I., Neilsen, E., Patton, K., Reil, K., Roodman, A., Thaler, J., ... Walker, A. (2014). The DECam DAQ System: Lessons learned after one year of operations. In Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy III Article 91520G (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 9152). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2057073

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Honscheid, K, Elliott, A, Bonati, M, Buckley-Geer, E, Castander, F, Da Costa, L, Diehl, HT, Eiting, J, Estay, O, Fausti, A, Flaugher, B, Karliner, I, Kuhlmann, S, Mandrichenko, I, Neilsen, E, Patton, K, Reil, K, Roodman, A, Thaler, J, Schumacher, G, Serrano, S, Suchyta, E, Vittone, M & Walker, A 2014, The DECam DAQ System: Lessons learned after one year of operations. in Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy III., 91520G, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 9152, SPIE, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy III, Montreal, QC, Canada, 06/22/14. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2057073

The DECam DAQ System: Lessons learned after one year of operations. / Honscheid, K.; Elliott, A.; Bonati, M. et al.
Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy III. SPIE, 2014. 91520G (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 9152).

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