magellan director report
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Personnel Observing Statistics Instrument Commissioning Instrument Development Fast Internet Connection Publications (A. Uomoto ). Magellan Director Report. March 17, 2012, Carnegie Observatories. Personnel. New Telescope Operator - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Magellan Director Report
• Personnel
• Observing Statistics
• Instrument Commissioning
• Instrument Development
• Fast Internet Connection
• Publications (A. Uomoto)
March 17, 2012, Carnegie Observatories
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Personnel• New Telescope Operator
• Magellan telescope operator Sergio Vera unexpectedly resigned with scant notice in late-August
• He was hired by ESO to become a VLT operator
• A search was hurriedly organized and several good applications were received
• An offer was made to GMT site testing equipment operator Gabriel Prieto, who accepted and began working in October
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Personnel (cont.)• Instrumentation Support Position
• The new Instrumentation Support Engineer/Scientist position was advertised and three excellent candidates were identified
• Interviews were carried out and an offer was made to Yuri Beletsky, who accepted and started working for Magellan in January
• From 2006-2011, Beletsky was an ESO Support Astronomer at Paranal with considerable experience in supporting a wide variety of optical and IR instrumentation
• This is a 100% support position
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Personnel (cont.)• El Pino / Mountain Personnel
• In July 2011, Roberto Bermúdez replaced Emma Molina as the Administrative Assistant to the LCO Director in La Serena
• Sergio Véliz joined the LCO Mountain staff in June 2011 to assist with administrative work (lodging, food services, travel, and warehouse supervision)
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Observing Statistics:Instrument Usage
2011 Mar 1 – 2012 Feb 29 Instrument UsageIMACS 23%FIRE 19%MIKE 15%FourStar 8%MagE 8%PFS 7%MMIRS 7%MegaCam 6%LDSS3 6%MIKE fibers 1%
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Observing Statistics: Long-Term Instrument
Usage
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Observing Statistics:Downtime
2011 Mar 1 – 2012 Feb 29 Baade Clay
Open 81.2% 83.2%
Lost to Weather 17.7% 15.6%
Lost to Telescope 0.7% 0.4%
Lost to Instrument 0.4% 0.5%
Lost to Computer 0.4% 0.3%
Total Downtime 1.5% 1.2%
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Observing Statistics: Long-Term Downtime
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Observing Statistics: Instrument Downtime
2011 Mar 1 – 2012 Feb 29
MMIRS 2.6%
IMACS 0.8%
MegaCam 0.7%
LDSS3 0.2%
FIRE 0.2%
MagE 0.1%
MIKE 0.0%
FourStar 0.0%
PFS 0.0%
MIKE fibers 0.0%
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Instrument Commissioning
Instrument First LightPFS* 2009 OctoberMegaCam 2009 OctoberMMIRS 2009 DecemberFIRE 2010 MarchFourStar 2010 DecemberIMACS Mosaic3 (f/4) 2011 October*P.I. Instrument
MegaCam, MMIRS, FIRE, FourStar have yet to be accepted by the Magellan Council as Facility Instruments
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Instrument Development
Instrument First LightAO (VisAO, Clio2) 2012BAO (BLINC MIRAC4) ?M2FS 2012B?PISCO 2013B?
What comes next? Will there be a new generation of Magellan instruments?
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Fast Internet Connection• As of late-February, CTIO had implemented a new 620 mbs
connection to Internet2
• Commodity traffic will use 30 mbs; 590 mbs reserved for research network
• “In principle”, LCO bandwidth will be limited to 100 mbs
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Fast Internet Connection (cont.)• Traffic destined to a network that is a member of the
Internet2 will go out over the 100 mbs route – all else will go out via the commodity network
• In order to see the 100 mbs, the application needs to use the “UDF” protocol
• The most common way is to use “bbFTP”
• Observers are encouraged to use this new capability for transferring data, etc.
Note: Downloading of movies, music, etc. is still considered unacceptable use of the network…
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Publications (A. Uomoto)