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EUROPEAN SOUTHERN
OBSERVATORY
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La Silla Observatory
SCIENCE OPERATION DEPARTMENT
![SciOp](/sci/facilities/lasilla/sciops/images/laSillaSkyLine.gif)
Re-Engineering Project:
Structure and Operation
LSO-PLA-ESO-9000-1
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Prepared |
Olivier Hainaut |
2002-02-10 |
Reviewed |
Michael Sterzik |
2002-05-13 |
Released |
Jorge Melnick |
2002-05-30 |
Revision History
0.1 |
2002-02-10 first draft, ohainaut |
0.9 |
2002-02-22 Major revision after general meeting |
0.91 |
2002-03-20 Typos and html fixes. No text change |
0.92 |
2002-05-13 Comments by RME, PLE, EBA, MST incorporated, stylistic changes,
and comments (msterzik) |
0.93
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2002-05-19 REVIEW VERSION: Additional comments from
RME and JME incorporated. Broadcasted review version - ohainaut
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1.0
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2002-05-29 modif. from comments from 2d round included. All
the dicussions stripped out.
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1.1 |
2002-06-14 fixed Table of Content, added final summary table |
1.2 |
2004-04-28 oh: minor change in the def of who can support
an instrument |
CONTENT
- 1-
Introduction
- 1.1- Purpose and Scope
- 1.2- General Comments
- 1.3- Stylistic Convention
- 1.4- Documents and References
- 1.5- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- 1.6- Comments by the Reviewer
- 2-
Clients, Services and Processes
- 2.0- SciOps Scope
- 2.1- Services Provided
- 2.2- Clients
- 2.3- Processes
- 3-
Structure
- 3.1- Introduction
- 3.2- Instrument Core
- 3.3- Instrument Force
- 4-
Operation
- 4.1- Night Operation
- 4.2- Day Operation
- 4.2.1- Telescope Coordinator
- 4.2.2- Support Astronomer
- 4.2.3- Shift Leader
- 4.2.4- Background Tio
- 4.2.4- Operation Engineer
- 4.3- Daily operations Schedule
1.1- PURPOSE AND SCOPE
This document discusses the general structure of
the Science Operation Department (SciOp) of La Silla, in the
framework of the restructuration of the 2p2, 3p6 and NTT teams.
This document will eventually become part of a larger document
describing the Science Operation Department as a whole.
This document is the result of the discussion
that took place on Thu. 2002 Feb 14 at la Silla and Vitacura,
based on an earlier draft of this document. Presence at that
meeting, in La Silla, Andres Gonzalez, Ariel Sanchez, Cristian
Esparza, Eduardo Celis, Emilio Barrios, Francisco Labrana,
Gaetano Andreoni, George Hau, Jose Cortes, Karla Aubel, Lisa
Germany, Malvina Billeres, Martin Kurster, Olivier Hainaut,
Rolando Vega, Ivo Saviane, and in Vitacura, Gaspare Lo Curto,
Kate Brooks and Leonardo Vanzi. Version 0.91 was released to the LaSilla audience for
discussion and comments, which were edited and included by M.Sterzik and O.Hainaut (contributions
were reveived from P.LeSaux, R.Mendez, and M.
Sterzik. E. Barrios and J.
Melnick). The comments and replys are included in the review version of this
document (v.0.93), which was released for a second round of comments,
leading to v.1.00.
1.2- GENERAL COMMENTS
It will be clear to the gentle reader that the TIOs are
getting much more responsibilities than in the past. The reason
for this is that the TIOs are the ones who actually operate the
observatory telescopes, not the astronomers. Indeed, TIOs tend to have a
longer life time in the organization (time scale of 10 yrs) than
the astronomers (time scale of 2 yrs), therefore, they can
accumulate much more experience and have a very broad overview of
the telescopes and instrumentation. This is acknowledged in this
plan, whose global idea is to distribute the responsibilities to
whom they naturally below: a question about the best strategy to
observe the spectral variability of a quasar in the near IR is
for an astronomer, but a question about the best way to select
and acquire a guide star in a crowded field for spectroscopic
chopping-and-nodding observations is for the TIO.
1.3- STYLISTIC CONVENTION
In this document, "he" and
"his" refer to the position described. In practice,
these position can be occupied by people of any gender.
1.4- DOCUMENTS AND REFERENCES
[1] LSO-PLA-ESO-90000-4 SciOp Re-engineering: SciOp communications
[2] LSO-PLA-ESO-90000-5 SciOp Re-engineering: Administrative and Managerial internal structure
1.5- ABBREVIATIONS and ACRONYMS
ETC: Exposure Time Calculator
LED: La Silla Engineering Department
SM: Service Mode
SMA: Service Mode Astronomer
SWC: La Silla Software and Communication Team
TIO: Telescope and Instrument Operator
VA: Visiting Astronomer
SciOp: La Silla Science Operation Department
2.1- SERVICES PROVIDED
SciOp provides astronomical data to its clients,
as well as the information needed by the clients
- to obtain these data (e.g. instrument
manuals, exposure time calculators, etc), and,
- to transform these astronomical data (i.e.
measurements in adu as a function of the x,y position on
a CCD) into astrophysical data (i.e. measurements in flux
units (erg/s/m2/A/arcsec2) as a function of other
physical quantities (wavelengths, RA, Dec,...)).
p>SciOp does not provide the scientific idea for
which the data are needed, and does not interpret astrophysically
the data, although the astronomers belonging to SciOp do it for
their own projects, and are therefore experts whose experience is
of great value when assisting the clients.
The data produced by SciOp (including those
produced by Visiting Astronomers) must be of the best achievable
technical quality (e.g. instrument always in focus), and must be
calibrated -or, more specifically calibratable, i.e. they must be
accompanied by a set of auxiliary data that allows the astronomer
to fully remove the instrumental signature of the instrument
(flat field, standard stars, etc.). These auxiliary data are
defined in the calibration plan of each instrument.
In more details, the scope of SciOp is:
Preventive maintenance of instruments, telescope and auxiliary equipment
Calibration Plan
Telescope and Instruments Statistical Process Control
(Performance)
Help desk for VAs (for pre- and post- observing run questions).
Assistance to P1PP/P2PP and during observations.
Environment Monitoring (Weather safety)
Reporting
Telescopes & Instruments Configuration control
(Optic, Mechanic, Software, Electronic, infrastructure...)
Provide full year coverage for all the above.
2.2- CLIENTS
The "clients" of SciOp are the members
of the international astronomical community at large, and in
priority the astronomers of the ESO member states.
More specifically, these includes:
- Visiting Astronomers (VAs, who will come to
la Silla to perform their observations) and "Service
Mode" Astronomers (SMAs), who don't come to la
Silla, their observations being performed by SciOp staff,
either in Service Mode (queue schedule) or as Delegated
Observation Mode (on fixed dates).
- Potential astronomers: who may submit a
project that would eventually get accepted, and who will
then become VAs or SMAs.
- The
Archive: the data produced by SciOp are archived in the ESO Science
Archive (cf archive.eso.org) for use by future astronomers. The role
of the archive is double: 1/ it constitutes a 100% reliable backup
of the data, 2/ it constitutes a mine of data that can potentially
be re-used for other purposes than those of the original project.
It is therefore important that the data be calibrated (calibratable) and
the instruments characterized.
- Projects and Technical Astronomers: SciOp hosts
some projects (new instruments, prototypes, experiements...). Some of the
SciOp astronomers can be deeply involved in these projects (e.g. as project
scientist or project manager). Their schedule and support load is to be adjusted
in order to accomodate these duties. Additionally, external astronomers attached
to project (e.g. an instrument scientist from Garching or other institute)
can be at La Silla for a fairly long time. These astronomers will be integrated
as guest to SciOp, in order to improve communication, training, info, and
to give them better support.
- Guest/Visitor instruments (such as SHARP, CIGALE...):
SciOp is not responsible for these instruments. It will provide support only
to the telescope-related aspects of the operation, i.e. Day + Night TIO,
support astronomer for generic astronomical support (e.g. hints and tips
on the telescope), but obviously no support for the instrument.
From an "ISO-9001" point of view, the
processes that belong to SciOp are the following:
- a-Production of Scientific Data: the
input is the scientific question, the output is the
corresponding observations replying to this question.
SciOp will deal with all aspects of this process, i.e. to help prepare a technically sound proposal that will get time (assuming
of course that it is a "good" question),
prepare his observations so that they optimally reply to
his question, help him performing the observations, or
perform them ourselves (all flavors of Service Mode), and
finally help him in the data reduction (not by
reducing the data for him). Basically, all the technical
aspect of his question are our job: with our help, he
should find trivial to reply to his astronomical
question.
- b-Operation of the instruments and
telescopes: the input is the tons of hardware and
software constituting the telescopes and instruments, the
output is a scientific instrument, fully understood,
certified and characterized. Obviously, this is an
internal process (i.e we provide the input and use the
output during the first process).
3.1 INTRODUCTION
The SciOp Department will be constituted of
Astronomers, Telescope and Instrument Operators (TIOs) and
Operation Engineers. The main differences with the current Team
structure are the following:
- SciOp will operate the 3 telescopes, while
each team was operating only one telescope. This gives us
a large potential of flexibility that was not available
with the individual teams. The way we use this potential
should increase both the overall efficiency, AND the
individual satisfaction (i.e. possibility to learn new
things, to teach things, to
remove the duplication of tasks that currently exists because of they are
done independently in each team, leaving more time for more interesting
tasks, etc.
- SciOp will not include Electronic Engineers
nor Electronic Technicians, who will belong to the LED, where a "Telescope
Support" sub-department will be formed to centralize direct support to the
telescopes. At least for the first year, this sub-department will be constituted
by some of the current Team Electronics, so that their expertise is not lost
by dilution in the Engineering Dptm. One senior engineer from the current
teams should be the head of that sub-department; he shall keep an overview of the system.
The main difference between La Silla SciOp and Paranal SciOp is that,
in La Silla, SciOp "owns" the telescopes and instruments, on which the support
teams and departments will perform work for us. In Paranal, the Engineering
Dptm owns the telescope and instruments, and lend them to SciOp for the night.
The main advantage of the La Silla scheme is that SciOp owns the complete
processes (c.f. previous section). The expertize to perform first level of
troubleshooting and basic preventive maintenance should be maintained within
SciOp. In that framework, each task will either be performed internally (according
to internal SciOp procedure), or externally (e.g. 3.6m top ring change will
be handled by LED). In case it is performed by an external provider, SciOp
will accept (or not) the job done. The main disadvantage of this scheme is
that most of the maintenance work will be "outsourced" to LED; to work properly,
it will require a very good coordination. This makes the role of the Telescope
Coordinator crutial.
INSTRUMENT SCIENTIST
Each instrument (e.g. EMMI, WFI...) will have an
INSTRUMENT SCIENTIST (astronomer) and an INSTRUMENT TIO.
Together, the Instrument Scientist and Instrument TIO form the
INSTRUMENT CORE that concentrates all the operation-related
expertise on the instrument: if there is some info or knowledge related to
the operation of an instrument, the Core should have it. Obviously, some
of the specialized experience will stay with the corresponding expert (e.g.
optical layout, cryogenics, electronics...).
The role of the instrument scientist will be very
similar to that of the current instrument scientist, i.e. more
specifically
- defining and implementing (possibly with the
support of EngDpt, SWC...)
observing modes
- defining and implementing the calibration
plan,
- writing and maintaining the relevant
documentation (user's manual, instrument web pages, etc).
- training other SciOp members on the use of
the instrument (e.g. coaching other astronomers in view
of them giving support to the clients, etc)
- track pending problems and action points
related to the instrument (e.g. give a few phone calls to
make sure that things keep moving)
- develop data processing recipes. Priority goes
to recipes to aiming at a fairly automatic processing of calibration plan
data to monitor the health of the instrument. Secondly, to process easilly
observations on-line (e.g. standard wavelength calibration for all fixed
modes (grisms), standard solution for echelle gratings, etc.)
It is important to note that the SciOp Operation Engineers will
be deeply involved in most of these points. Also note that it is not expected
that the instrument scientist will perform all the support on his instrument.
INSTRUMENT TIO
The instrument scientist will be assisted by a
TIO, who will be have expert knowledge of that instrument, both
for day and night operation. The role of the Instrument TIO can
be summarized as following:
- assist the Instrument Scientist in testing
observation modes,
- assist the Instrument Scientist to perform
the calibration plan (e.g make sure that the frames
needed are obtained, obtain more if needed).
- together with the Instrument Scientist,
define the best way to operate the instrument at night
- coach other TIOs on how to operate the
instrument in the best way,
- track pending problems and action points
related to the instrument (e.g. give a few phone calls to
make sure that things keep moving).
- together with the operation engineers,
define and improve the operation procedures and check
list related to that instrument (all TIOs should always
try to optimize operation procedures and check-list
-while respecting the strict conf.Ctrl-, but naturally,
as they know "their" instrument better than
anybody else, they will be most productive for that
instrument).
It is important to note that the Instrument TIO
does not have to work only on that instrument. The
"Instrument TIO" job is more a background task that he
can perform during his "background turno" (former
Mid-Day/Mid-Night, cf below), during the night (long exposures),
during the day (phone calls), etc... While it is desirable that
he keeps accumulating experience on the instrument (e.g.
operating it at night, performing set-up at day, etc), it is also
important that he spends some "background" time on the
instrument, e.g. when performing some tests while it is in the
lab. In summary, the actions related to the "Instrument
TIO" job have a time-scale of weeks/months (following up
problems, testing new modes) and not day-by-day.
Also, only one TIO is "Instrument TIO"
for a given instrument, not 2, in order not to dilute
responsibility. Of course, the Instrument TIO can appoint one or
various delegates, for instance in his contra-turno, or to tackle
with a specific issue, but he will remain the one
"officially" in charge.
To reach the level of full "Instrument TIO", it
is likely that some additional training will be required by the operation
engineer, electronics, optics, and/or whoever needed.
From the administrative point of view, the
"Instrument TIO" title will appear in the Goals and
Objective. The evaluation criteria will be (these are examples,
not an exhaustive list): efficiency in following up problem
reports (not in solving them, which is the task of the
person/deptm to whom the problem is assigned), efficiency in
performing the calibration plan, in coaching other TIOs, etc. For
the first year, there will of course be some real-time
adjustments to the G&O: the idea is definitely not to sack
anybody on this new responsibility, but to get the best out of
the system, and to get the system as good as possible.
TELESCOPE SCIENTIST/TIO
In a similar way, each telescope (NTT, 3.6, 2.2)
will have a Telescope Scientist and Telescope TIO, forming a
Telescope Core. The Telescope Core has the same role for
the telescope and related systems as the Instrument Core for
the instruments. For instance, pointing model, mirror model, active
optics, followup of action points and problems related to domes, hydraulics,
etc... are under the Telescope Scientist/TIO Core' responsibility.
3.3- INSTRUMENT FORCE
The various Instrument Nuclei are combined into
"INSTRUMENT FORCES"; the various Instrument Forces that
come into mind are:
- Imaging: WFI and SuSI
- Visible spectro imagers: EFOSC2 and EMMI
- IR: SofI and TIMMI2
- High-res spectro: CES/HARPS, FEROS,
EMMI/Echelle
- Telescopes
These forces should exchange expertise at all
levels: observation procedures, data reduction, hints and tips,
etc. Also, the Instrument Scientist of one of the instrument will
almost automatically be able to give basic support on the others
of the same instrument force. This should foster communication
between the current teams. One Core can belong to several
Forces. Other forces could be considered, eg 2p2 (=2p2 + WFI +
FEROS), NTT (= NTT+EMMI+SUSI+SOFI), 3p6 (=3p6+ EFOSC+ TIMMI +
CES/HARPS).
In addition to the Instrument Scientists of the instruments constituting it,
the Force will also include additional scientists, i.e. "new" astronomers who
are not yet Instrument Scientists, and "senior" scientists (this includes Fellows
who completed their first year) who fully master all the instruments from one
Force and are expanding to other Forces. In that framework, the support of a
given instrument will be provided by the astronomers of its Force, not only
by the Instrument Scientists. In practice, any SciOp astronomer from any IFo,
who is certified on a given instrument, could give support on that instrument
if/when needed.The average nr of nights during which each instrument is scheduled
must be taken into account when constituting the forces and, to a certain extend,
when hiring replacement for leaving scientists.
At this point, the 5 above-mentioned forces
should meet briefly, but fairly formally (e.g. every 2 months),
with the following agenda:
- important news,
- new important problems (i.e. that could be
of interest for the other nuclei)
- follow-up of previous important problems
- new hints and tip.
Each of these meeting should be summarize briefly
in a "monthly instrument force report", which will
1/ diffuse the info to SciOp as a whole, 2/ document and archive
the problems, achievement, hints and tips..., 3/ provide input
for the bimonthly SciOp report that the head of SciOp has to
produce for the upper management (i.e. help me!).
In the future, the rhythm and scope of these
meetings will be adjusted depending of the usefulness of the
first ones.
It must be noted that the Instrument Core and Instrument
Force structure is a technical structure, which obviously overlaps with the
administrative structure (described in [2]) since the same people are
involved. It is not a problem, since these structures have well defined scopes
that are not overlaping.
3.4- OPERATION ENGINEER
As their title suggests, the Operation Engineers are in charge of all the
engineering aspects of the operation. As such, they will have a crutial
role within the Instrument Nuclei and Instrument forces, but also at a broader
level.
Their responsibilities include:
- Configuration control officer: enforce and verify general configuration
control. Some specific aspects of the conf.Ctrl are delegated to other Department
(namely SWC for VLT software and related, and Eng. for hardware), but the
overall control stays with the OpEng.
This responsibility include training of newcommers to the concept of configuration
control, and countinuous training on that topic to all staff.
- Development, testing, approval, implementation and maintenance of operation
procedures and check lists. Some procedures can be developped by other SciOp
members (specifically the Forces), but OpEngs have the final word for approval.
- General training of TIOs to operation, esp. the aspects of the use
of operation and maintenance procedures and check lists, configuration control,
etc, and the general philosophy of operation of VLT-like systems.
- In
collaboration with the instrument forces, development, testing, approval,
implementation of observations, calibration, set-up and maintenance templates.
OpEng has the power to approve/reject any change.
- Participation to the maintenance
plan, and to general operation. While it is important that the OpEng
actually performs the operations in order to test procedures, check that
they are not obsolescent, etc, this is supposed to take only a small fraction
of their time.
4.1- NIGHT OPERATION
No major change with respect to the current
system:
- A Night TIO is in charge of the night
operation. He has FULL RESPONSIBILITY on the telescopes,
its instruments, and its user. This includes:
- Decision to close the telescope
because of weather conditions (i.e. no formal
need to call the La Silla Coordinator)
- Decision to re-open (i.e. no need to
call the La Silla Coordinator)
- Decision to call standby SciOp or
Support Teams (LED, SWC...). Head of SciOp will approve overtime or whatever other
administrative stuff related to emergency night call..
- decision to shut-down the telescope
because of un-recoverable problem, etc
Of course, the night TIO can always call
whoever he things can help in his decision, or whoever he
things can help make his decision enforced (i.e. if the
Visiting Astronomer wants to get explanation on the
humidity rules by an astronomer, get the Support
Astronomer, Shift Leader (see below) or head of SciOp to come
to help). In particular, for weather matters, an
unexperienced Night TIO should call a more senior Night
TIO.
- The Support Astronomer will assist
the TIO and the Visiting Astronomer for all astronomical
aspects of the observations. The Support Astronomer is
supposed to give an extended introduction to the Visitor
(i.e. hold his hand at least till the first successful
science exposure is read out), and is supposed to be on
"stand-by" (available in the control room, in
his office, or anywhere else till ~2AM, then on call
later for important questions/problems that should not
wait till the next day). The Suppport Astronomer must be
"certified" (cf SciOp Internal Training Plan)
for the telescope and instrument he supports, meaning
that he will be able to perform some troubleshooting
(e.g. diagnoze and fix or work-around a crashed
template).
After Dec.2003 (when SciOp will have lost the current
2p2/WFI staff), this scheme will have to be condensed, sharing TIOs and/or
Support Astronomers among telescopes, e.g. no night TIO for the 2p2 when
in FEROS mode, or no astronomer in WFI/Service Mode. Priorities will have
to be defined in case a person has to attend 2 telescopes at the same time,
eg. Visitor Mode has priority over service, and/or larger diameter over smaller
one.
4.2- DAY OPERATION
4.2.1- TELESCOPE COORDINATOR
As maintenance will be mostly performed by
"outsiders" (i.e. from Engineering Dpt and SWC),
coordination will be of critical importance.
For each telescope, the Day TIO will be in charge
of that coordination (and be TELESCOPE COORDINATOR). His role is
equivalent to that of the Paranal's UT Manager. On a day-to-day
basis, he will
- Coordinate with Eng.Dept and SWC the
maintenance actions
- Coordinate with outsiders and insiders the
various actions to be taken
- Accept (or not) the work performed on the
telescope by other teams or internal teams
- Coordinate with the support
astronomer/visiting astronomer the time of start-up and
the time of the hand-over.
- Keep a log of the actions taken
- Finally, deliver the telescope in perfect
condition to the Night TIO. (in summer time, the
telescope can be handed over to the "Background
TIO" who will receive it on behalf of the Night TIO
arriving later).
- On Tuesdays, he will check the pending
problems and action points, and call the responsible
person (or have them called) for a status report
- On Wednesday, he will 1/ chair the weekly
operation meeting during which the problems and action
points are discussed 2/ issue the internal and external
week reports.
One of the Telescope Coordinators (typically a
"senior" one) will be SCIOP COORDINATOR, i.e. in
addition to coordinate his telescope, he will also coordinate the
actions that affect SciOp as a whole. He will be in charge of
representing SciOp at the Action Point Meeting on Thu, and -if
needed- invite additional SciOp members to be present at that
meeting. He is also the person who mans the lasilla@eso.org account (cf [1])
4.2.2- SUPPORT ASTRONOMERS
Durning the day (starting at a decent time
considering the time he went to bed the night before), the
Support Astronomer will
- Get informed about the end of the previous
night, if relevant
- Check that the day calibrations taken were
successful and that all required calibrations were
obtained.
- Give off-line (P2PP and Co) intro if
required
- Background work
4.2.3- SHIFT LEADER
One of the support astronomer (most senior) is the Astronomer Shift Leader
(which corresponds very closely to the former La Silla Coordinator). He is
in charge of taking astronomy-related decision, as to schedule ToO requests
(checking that they are approved/pre-approved), approve ToO Requests in case
of emergency (eg WE if Director not available), etc. He is also in charge
of formally "closing" ToO tickets in the Remedy system (cf [1]). The Shift
Leader can also enforce the authority of the TIOs for weather and safety
related matters (e.g. in case of recalcitrant Visitor).
It is suggested that the task of closing the Library curtains during the
WE be passed to SWC, as they will become the most numerous users of the Admin building.
4.2.4- BACKGROUND TIO
The third TIO will either
- perform some background work (e.g on his
instrument, on documention, etc), or
- be on training.
It should be noted that if the 3rd TIO is needed
for on-line work, this has priority on any background task. For
instance, if he is needed for urgent trouble shooting, problem
solving, or to ensure the day/night transition, he should stop
his background activities.
4.2.5- OPERATION ENGINEERS
They participate to maintenance plan, and on-line
operation. Most of their time should be devoted to configuration control and operation developments, as described above
4.3. DAILY OPERATION SCHEDULE
- 08:00 Telescope coordinators get the reports of the night and
assign the new problems/request to the relevant department. In case of urgent
item, make sure that the corresponding people get the info and act. Adjust
the operation plan of the day to cope with that emergency (note that this
should be an exception).
- 08:00--12:00 Troubleshooting of previous night pending problems,
Calibrations and set-up for night, maintenance Plan, in that order of priority.
Note that in normal operation (i.e. not in technical time, there is no "installation/test
of improvement" - this should go to technical time).
- 13:30--14:00 Dayly Coordination meeting: Attendance compulsory
for the 3 telecope coordinators, OpEng, a coordinator from Eng and a coordinator
from SWC. Coordinators can also "invite" specific specialists (eg. instrumentation,
mechanics) or other departments (ISG, Hotel...). Support astronomers are
expected to attend unless they are on full night schedule. It must be noted
that this is an open meeting, everybody is welcome. This meeting will also
be the base for the Coordinators to prepare the weekly report on a day-by-day
bases.
- Brief report of the night, its problems and what is being done to solve them.
- Brief report of actions under way
- Coordination of the next 24h, esp.
- actions to be taken in the afternoon
- time of the startup for each telescope, and time of start of observations.
Here should come a very brief summary of the observing program and of its
technical implication.
- scheduled maintenance actions for the next morning.
- 14:00--16:30: Operation, complete what is left from the morning
- Wednesday only: 14:00-15:00: Weekly coordination meeting. All
the pending problems are reviewed, as well as the action points. New action
points are dicussed. At the end of that meeting, the Coordinators should
enter the final comments in the Remedy system, and prepare the weekly reports,
both the external one (generated by Remedy) to be sent to astro, and the
internal one, which includes the summary of the week for the next turno.
It is important to note that this coordination meeting must be prepared in
advance: at the latest on Mon. or Tue., the Coordinators should contact the
provider for each problems for feedback (unless that feedback appears in
the problem report).
- ~16:30: Startup (time to be adjusted depending on the season and the need). All maintenance actions stop.
- ~17:30: Start of calibrations, then observations.
- Just before twilight: "hand
over" from the day TIO to the night (or mid/day/night) TIO, with the Supp.Astro:
pass the information of the day to the night people.
4.4- SUMMARY TABLE
The table below summarizes the operation and background tasks of the various members of SciOp
Functions
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Operation Engineers
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Day TIO
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Night TIO
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Background TIO
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Astronomers
(Faculty
OpAs Fellow)
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Head of Department
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TASKS
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Deputy to Head of SciOp
Operation Management
Configuration Control
Operational Tools Development (OPS)
OTM/MTM templates maintenance
Projects and Commissioning
Maintenance Plan Control
Technical Document WebMaster
Training
Day Coverage
Night Technical Support
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Day-to-Day Telescope Coordination and Configuration Control
Weekly Report
Instruments Setups
Detector refilling
Archiving
Instruments Calibrations
Performance Monitoring
Troubleshooting
Daily Startup
Overlap Night Operation
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Telescopes and Instruments Night operation and Safety
Night Report Submitting
Carryout Service Observing
Make Users Happy
Be the SciOp Face projection
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Assist Instruments Scientist
Perform Instrument Calibrations regarding the data Quality Control
and Calibration Plan needs
Installation and Setup Procedure definitions and Check List maintenance
Instrument technical web page maintenance
Commissioning of new features
Instrument Metric and Configuration Control
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Science Support Deputy
Supporting visiting/service astronomers
Service Observations (SM, ToO, DDT, etc.)
Tel&Inst performance monitoring
Instrument Scientist
Create and maintain User's Manuals
Develop Pipelines and Data quality controls
Train Instrument TIO
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Management and administrative tasks, described in LSO-SPE-ESO-00100-0004
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