The readout and control system of the dark energy camera

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8451, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Honscheid, K ^a   Elliott, A ^a   Annis, J ^b   Bonati, M ^c   Buckley Geer, E ^b   Castander, F ^d   DaCosta, L ^e   Fausti, A ^e   Karliner, I ^f   Kuhlmann, S ^g   Neilsen, E ^b   Patton, K ^a   Reil, K ^h   Roodman, A ^h   Thaler, J ^f   Serrano, S ^d   Soares Santos, M ^b   Suchyta, E ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^d INSTITUT D ESTUDIS ESPACIALS DE CATALUNYA IEEC   (Spain)

^e OBSERVATÓRIO NACIONAL   (Brazil)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^g ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^h SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blanco; Camera; Control system; CTIO; Dark energy survey; Data acquisition; DECam; Survey

Indexed keywords

BLANCO; CLIENT SERVER; CTIO; DARK ENERGY; DECAM; DESIGN PATTERNS; DISTRIBUTED OBJECT TECHNOLOGY; FIELD OF VIEWS; HIGH PRECISION; IMAGE PIPELINE; INFRASTRUCTURE SOFTWARE; INSTRUMENT CONTROL; MEGA-PIXEL; MULTIPROCESSOR-SYSTEM; PRIME-FOCUS; PUBLISH-SUBSCRIBE; QUALITY MONITORING; SHARED VARIABLES; TELEMETRY DATA; USER INTERFACE ARCHITECTURE;

ASTROPHYSICS; CAMERAS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; DATA ACQUISITION; OBSERVABILITY; SURVEYS; USER INTERFACES;

CCD CAMERAS;

EID: 84872183193     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.925717     Document Type: Conference Paper

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