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The Observation Management Project & System

The Observation Management Project & System. Frossie Economou Joint Astronomy Centre, Hawaii. The OMP team. Tim Jenness, Matthew Rippa, Kynan DeLorey Remo Tilanus, Paul Hirst Martin Folger Ramped up January 2001. Why the OMP. JCMT is flexing but with a high administrative overhead

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The Observation Management Project & System

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  1. The Observation Management Project & System Frossie Economou Joint Astronomy Centre, Hawaii

  2. The OMP team • Tim Jenness, Matthew Rippa, Kynan DeLorey • Remo Tilanus, Paul Hirst • Martin Folger • Ramped up January 2001 OMP

  3. Why the OMP • JCMT is flexing but with a high administrative overhead • UKIRT wishes to flex but cannot afford the overhead • The OMP will provide generic, modular and supportable tools to allow flexing with minimal staff effort • Will be usable wherever the ORAC-OT is used, including future instruments such as Michelle, ACSIS, UIST, WFCAM & SCUBA2. OMP

  4. The OMP System - what it is • A suite of software to manage the project cycle • Optimised for flexible scheduling • Has an interface to observation preparation (ORAC-OT) • Also deals with post observation management of information OMP

  5. The OMP System - what it isn't • Has no formal interface to acquisition or data reduction • It essentially deals with two things: • MSBs • Project Status OMP

  6. What is an MSB? • One or more observations • Fully reducible (includes calibrations) • Efficient length OMP

  7. OMP system components • MSB database • Query Tool • Project status database • Feedback tool • Assistant scripts & ORAC-DR recipes OMP

  8. Related components • Scheduling component for the OT • The OM (Chooser) / Translator / Queue (OS) OMP

  9. MSB.dia OMP

  10. OT interface • Mainly met by extending the site quality component • Logic via subversion of groups and folders OMP

  11. Feedback.dia OMP

  12. Progress • Prototyped the new techonology (CORBA communication) • A preliminary version of the XML OT has been delivered • Carried out proof of concept exercises of the MSB database at JCMT (ENA, RPT, RRP) and UKIRT (PH) • The interfaces to the JCMT OCS system have been defined • Currently prototyping the QT and Feedback tool OMP

  13. Upcoming • Technical document review in May • Test major system components on the UKIRT Service queue (circa July) • Meet start of Michelle common-user observing (circa October) • Comission on ACSIS (circa April 2002) OMP

  14. Summary • No technical risks • Maintaining project effort is the major consideration OMP

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