Control and monitoring software for the Greenland Telescope

Nimesh A. Patel; Hiroaki Nishioka; Chih-Wei Locutus Huang

doi:10.1117/12.2232409

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8 August 2016 Control and monitoring software for the Greenland Telescope

Nimesh A. Patel, Hiroaki Nishioka, Chih-Wei Locutus Huang

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Proceedings Volume 9913, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy IV; 991308 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232409
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Abstract

The Greenland Telescope (GLT) is a 12m diameter antenna that is being developed from the ALMA North America prototype antenna, for VLBI observations and single-dish science approaching THz, at the Summit station in Greenland. The GLT is a collaboration between the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics. We describe the control and monitoring software that is being developed for GLT. The present version of the software is ready for the initial tests of the antenna at Thule, including optical and radio pointing calibration, holography, and VLBI observations at 230 GHz.

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Nimesh A. Patel, Hiroaki Nishioka, and Chih-Wei Locutus Huang "Control and monitoring software for the Greenland Telescope", Proc. SPIE 9913, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy IV, 991308 (8 August 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232409

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