Cerimonia 30° anniversario dell'ARA e cena

Il 15 dicembre alle ore 18.00 appuntamento in osservatorio per un breve saluto in occasione del 30°anniversario della fondazione dell’Associazione e per scambiarci gli auguri di Natale. Seguirà una cena presso il ristorante “il Tiranno”. Programma della serata • ore 18.00 saluti del Sindaco • ore 18.10 breve conferenza sulla storia dell’ARA (Massimo Calabresi) • al termine Cena al ristorante il Tiranno (è necessaria la prenotazione, contattare il segretario entro e non oltre le 21:00 di mercoledì 12 dicembre) La prenotazione della cena è disponibile per i soli soci ed ex-soci...

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A mask quality control tool for the OSIRIS multi-object spectrograph

OSIRIS multi object spectrograph uses a set of user-customised-masks, which are manufactured on-demand. The manufacturing process consists of drilling the specified slits on the mask with the required accuracy. Ensuring that slits are on the right place when observing is of vital importance. We present a tool for checking the quality of the process of manufacturing the masks which is based on analyzing the instrument images obtained with the manufactured masks on place. The tool extracts the slit information from these images, relates specifications with the extracted slit...

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J-PAS data management pipeline and archiving

J-PAS survey is going to observe 8000 deg<SUP>2</SUP> in 54 optical narrow band filters plus 3 broad band ones. The survey will produce 1.2 PB of raw data in six years of observations. The treatment of about 1.5 TB per night, coming from the 14 detectors of the JPCam camera in the JST/T250, plus one detector in the JAST/T80 camera, shall be performed during the day after the operations. This contribution presents the software and hardware architecture designed to process and validate the data. The processing of the images is divided in two main stages. The first one, which deals with...

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