Software systems for operation, control, and monitoring of the EBEX instrument

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7740, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Milligan, Michael ^a   Ade, Peter ^b   Aubin, François ^c   Baccigalupi, Carlo ^d   Bao, Chaoyun ^a   Borrill, Julian ^e   Cantalupo, Christopher ^e   Chapman, Daniel ^f   Didier, Joy ^f   Dobbs, Matt ^c   Grainger, Will ^b   Hanany, Shaul ^a   Hillbrand, Seth ^f   Hubmayr, Johannes ^g   Hyland, Peter ^c   Jaffe, Andrew ^h   Johnson, Bradley ⁱ   Kisner, Theodore ^e   Klein, Jeff ^a   Korotkov, Andrei ^j   Leach, Sam ^d   Lee, Adrian ⁱ   Levinson, Lorne ^k   Limon, Michele ^f   MacDermid, Kevin ^c   Matsumura, Tomotake ^l   Miller, Amber ^f   Pascale, Enzo ^b   Polsgrove, Daniel ^a   Ponthieu, Nicolas ^m   Raach, Kate ^a   Reichborn Kjennerud, Britt ^f   Sagiv, Ilan ^a   Tran, Huan ⁱ   Tucker, Gregory S ^j   Vinokurov, Yury ^j   Yadav, Amit ⁿ   Zaldarriaga, Matias ⁿ   Zilic, Kyle ^a   more..

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d SISSA   (Italy)

^e LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^j BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^l CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

ⁿ INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

ballooning; CMB; data handling; flight control systems; millimeter wave telescopes

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS OPERATIONS; BALLOONING; CLIENT-SERVER SOFTWARE; CMB; DATA PRODUCTS; DETECTOR READOUT; DISPERSED SITES; DISTRIBUTED ARCHITECTURE; EMBEDDED COMPUTERS; FLIGHT CONTROL; FRONT-END PROGRAMS; GROUND SEGMENTS; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE; HETEROGENEOUS DATA; INTERMEDIATE DATA FORMATS; MILLIMETER-WAVE TELESCOPES; ONBOARD COMPUTERS; POINTING CONTROL; PUBLIC INTERNET; REAL TIME MONITORING; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SQUID AMPLIFIERS; STORAGE ARRAYS; TES BOLOMETERS;

ASTRONOMY; COMPUTER CONTROL; COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA HANDLING; INSTRUMENTS; INTERNET; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; NASA; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 77956161339     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857583     Document Type: Conference Paper

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