Publications of the MPIfR
Optical & Infrared
Interferometry Group
le Coarer, Etienne P.; Zins, Gerard;
Gluck, Laurence; Duvert, Gilles; Driebe, Thomas; Ohnaka, Keiichi;
Heininger, Matthias; Connot, Claus; Behrend, Jan; Dugue, Michel;
Clausse, Jean Michel; Millour, Florentin
AMBER instrument control software
Ground-based Instrumentation for Astronomy,
Proceedings of SPIE Volume 5492.
Edited by Alan F. M. Moorwood, Masanori Iye: The International Society
for Optical Engineering, 2004., p.1423-1430
Abstract
AMBER (Astronomical Multiple BEam Recombiner) is a 3 aperture
interferometric recombiner operating between 1 and 2.5 um, for the Very
Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI). The control software of the
instrument, based on the VLT Common Software, has been written to
comply
with specific features of the AMBER hardware, such as the Infrared
detector read out modes or piezo stage drivers, as well as with the
very
specific operation modes of an interferomtric instrument. In this
respect, the AMBER control software was designed to insure that all
operations, from the preparation of the observations to the
control/command of the instrument during the observations, would be
kept
as simple as possible for the users and operators, opening the use of
an
interferometric instrument to the largest community of astronomers.
Peculiar attention was given to internal checks and calibration
procedures both to evaluate data quality in real time, and improve the
successes of long term UV plane coverage observations.
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