Quality control and instruments monitoring for the VLTI

I. Percheron; Sabine Moehler

doi:10.1117/12.671276

30 June 2006 Quality control and instruments monitoring for the VLTI

I. Percheron, Sabine Moehler

Proceedings Volume 6270, Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems; 627028 (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.671276
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2006, Orlando, Florida , United States

Abstract

The VLTI Data Flow Operations consist in monitoring the performance of the different VLTI instruments offered to the community, in verifying the quality of the calibration and scientific data and their associated products. Since the beginning of MIDI (April 2004) and AMBER (October 2005) Service Mode Operations, scientific as well as calibration data have been accumulated to monitor the instruments and the quality of the observations on different time scales and under different conditions or system configurations. In this presentation, we will describe the Quality Control procedures and give some statistics and results on the different parameters used for instrument monitoring for time scales from hours to years in the case of MIDI. We will show that this includes parameters extracted directly from the instruments (Instrumental Transfer Function, Flux stability, Image Quality, Detector stability...) and parameters extracted from some of the sub-systems associated to the instruments (Adaptive Optics, telescopes used...). We will discuss the development of the monitoring of the instruments once more instrument modes or sub-systems such as PRIMA are offered to the community.

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I. Percheron and Sabine Moehler "Quality control and instruments monitoring for the VLTI", Proc. SPIE 6270, Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems, 627028 (30 June 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.671276

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