Architectural design of the control software for the SPHERE "Planet Finder" VLT instrument

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7019, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Baruffolo, A ^a   Bruno, P ^b   Cetre S ^c   Fantinel, D ^a   Fedrigo, E ^d   Gluck, L ^c   Kiekebusch, M ^d   Salasnich, B ^a   Steiner, P ^e   Zins, G ^c  

^a INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI PADOVA   (Italy)

^b INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI CATANIA   (Italy)

^c LABORATOIRE D ASTROPHYSIQUE   (France)

^d EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Instrument control software; Software architecture; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS SYSTEMS; CALIBRATION PROCEDURE; CIRCUMSTELLAR; CONTROL HARDWARES; CONTROL SOFTWARE; CURRENT STATUS; DIRECT IMAGING; ENGINEERING PROCESS; EXOPLANET; EXTRASOLAR GIANT PLANETS; EXTREME ADAPTIVE OPTICS; HIGH CONTRAST; IMAGING CAMERA; INSTRUMENT CONTROL SOFTWARE; INTEGRAL FIELD SPECTROGRAPH; ONLINE DATA; PLANET FINDERS; PROCESSING PROCEDURES; SECOND GENERATION; VLT INSTRUMENTS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; ASTROPHYSICS; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTS; POLARIMETERS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; SPHERES; STARS;

COMPUTER CONTROL;

EID: 66949138538     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.786670     Document Type: Conference Paper

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