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Overview of Telescope and Instrument
Commissioning: semester 2002A
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The list below
indicates the current best estimate of commissioning tasks for semester 2002A
(written at the time of the 2002A Call for Proposals). The list is not in priority order and is
subject to change.
- Instrumentation
- Remaining GMOS-N modes (GN)
- Remaining NIRI modes (GN)
- Commission GPOL for NIRI (GN)
- Start Altair acceptance tests/commissioning (GN)
- Commission T-ReCS (GS)
- Start GMOS-S acceptance tests/commissioning (GS)
- Remaining Flamingos-I modes (GS)
- Telescope and facility
- Continued development of coating chamber and process; re-coating M1 at GN and GS
- Continuing work on all systems to improve reliability and robustness
- Regular maintenance schedule
- Continuing deployment and testing of high-level software to improve telescope/instrument operation, reliability and
on-source efficiency
- Work on improving functionality: implementation of high precision pointing and guiding (closed loop)
- Full implementation of close loop active optics on M1 using P1
- Upgrade of capabilities of PWFS2 (OIWFS for GMOS) for closed loop correction of astigmatism
Last update August 28, 200; Jean-Rene Roy and Phil Puxley