South Pole Telescope software systems: Control, monitoring, and data acquisition

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Volumn 8451, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Story, K ^a,b   Leitch, E ^a   Ade, P ^c   Aird, K A ^b   Austermann, J E ^d   Beall, J A ^e   Becker, D ^e   Bender, A N ^f   Benson, B A ^a,g   Bleem, L E ^a,b   Britton, J ^e   Carlstrom, J E ^a,b,g,h   Chang, C L ^a,g,h   Chiang, H C ^a,g   Cho, H M ^e   Crawford, T M ^a,b   Crites, A T ^a,b   Datesman, A ^h   De Haan, T ^f   Dobbs, M A ^f   Everett, W ^a   Ewall Wice, A ^a,b   George, E M ⁱ   Halverson, N W ^d   Harrington, N ⁱ   Henning, J W ^d   Hilton, G C ^e   Holzapfel, W L ⁱ   Hoover, S ^a,b   Huang, N ^a,g   Hubmayr, J ^e   Irwin, K D ^e   Karfunkle, M ^a,b   Keisler, R ^a,b,g   Kennedy, J ^f   Lee, A T ⁱ   Li, D ^e   Lueker, M ^j   Marrone, D P ^k   McMahon, J J ^l   Mehl, J ^a,g   Meyer, S S ^a,b,g   Montgomery, J ^a,b   Montroy, T E ^m   Nagy, J ^m   Natoli, T ^a,b   Nibarger, J P ^e   Niemack, M D ^e   Novosad, V ^h   Padin, S ^a   Pryke, C ⁿ   Reichardt, C L ⁱ   Ruhl, J E ^m   Saliwanchik, B R ^m   Sayre, J T ^m   Schaffer, K K ^o   Shirokoff, E ^j   Smecher, G ^f   Stalder, B ^p   Tucker, C ^c   Vanderlinde, K ^f   Vieira, J D ^j   Wang, G ^h   Williamson, R ^a,g   Yefremenko, V ^h   Yoon, K W ^e   Young, E ⁱ   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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

^f MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^h ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^j CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^m CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^o SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^p HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR RESOLUTION; AUSTRAL SUMMERS; CONTROL SOFTWARE; CONTROL SOFTWARE SYSTEM; COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUNDS; EMBEDDED PROCESSORS; FOCAL PLANE; FREQUENCY MULTIPLEXING; ON-BOARD SOFTWARES; READ-OUT DATA; READOUT BOARDS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SOUTH POLE; TELESCOPE OPERATIONS; TRANSITION-EDGE SENSORS;

ASTRONOMY; BOLOMETERS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FIRMWARE; INFRARED DETECTORS; POLES; TELESCOPES;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 84872188392     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.925808     Document Type: Conference Paper

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