Design and integration of the HARPS3 software system

John Young; Tim Naylor; Martyn Brake; Martin Fisher; Eugene Seneta; Peter Kunst; Francesco Pepe; Danuta Sosnowska

doi:10.1117/12.2312830

6 July 2018 Design and integration of the HARPS3 software system

John Young, Tim Naylor, Martyn Brake, Martin Fisher, Eugene Seneta, Peter Kunst, Francesco Pepe, Danuta Sosnowska

Proceedings Volume 10707, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy V; 107072J (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2312830
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2018, Austin, Texas, United States

Abstract

We present the design of the HARPS3 software system – a distributed, event-driven control system for robotic operation of the HARPS3 spectrograph at the Isaac Newton Telescope (INT). We also describe our approach to integrating the control software components incrementally at various stages of development, using a simulation framework. HARPS3 will be a high resolution (R = 115, 000) echelle spectrograph operating at wavelengths from 380 nm to 690 nm, with a design based on the successful HARPS and HARPS-N instruments. It is being built as part of the Terra Hunting Experiment (THE) – a planned 10 year radial velocity measurement programme to discover Earth-like exoplanets around Sun-like stars.

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John Young, Tim Naylor, Martyn Brake, Martin Fisher, Eugene Seneta, Peter Kunst, Francesco Pepe, and Danuta Sosnowska "Design and integration of the HARPS3 software system", Proc. SPIE 10707, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy V, 107072J (6 July 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2312830

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