Control Software for the VERITAS Cherenkov Telescope System
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
The VERITAS collaboration is developing a system of initially 4 and eventually 7 Cherenkov Telescopes of the 12 m diameter class for high sensitivity gamma-ray astronomy in the >50 GeV energy range. In this contribution we describe the software that controls and monitors the various VERITAS sub-systems. The software uses an object-oriented approach to cope with the complexities that arise from using sub-groups of the 7 VERITAS telescopes to observe several sources at the same time. Inter-process communication is based on the CORBA Object Request Broker protocol and watch-dog processes monitor the sub-system performance.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0306194,
title = {Control Software for the VERITAS Cherenkov Telescope System},
author = {H. Krawczynski and M. Olevitch and G. Sembroski and K. Gibbs},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0306194},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 pages to be published in the Proceedings of the 28th International Cosmic Ray Conference (Tsukuba, Japan 2003)