Dynamic scheduling for SOXS instrument: environment, algorithms and development
Abstract
We present development progress of the scheduler for the Son Of X-Shooter (SOXS) instrument at the ESO-NTT 3.58 meter telescope. SOXS will be a single object spectroscopic facility, consisting of a two-arms high-efficiency spectrograph covering the spectral range 350-2000 nanometer with a mean resolving power R4500. SOXS will be uniquely dedicated to the UV-visible and near infrared follow up of astrophysical transients, with a very wide pool of targets available from the streaming services of wide-field telescopes, current and future. This instrument will serve a variety of scientific scopes in the astrophysical community, with each scope eliciting its specific requirements for observation planning, that the observing scheduler has to meet. Due to directions from the European Southern Observatory (ESO), the instrument will be operated only by La Silla staff, with no astronomer present on the mountain. This implies a new challenge for the scheduling process, requiring a fully automated algorithm that should be able to present the operator not only with and ordered list of optimal targets, but also with optimal back-ups, should anything in the observing conditions change. This imposes a fast-response capability to the scheduler, without compromising the optimization process, that ensures good quality of the observations. In this paper we present the current state of the scheduler, that is now almost complete, and of its web interface.
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@article{arxiv.2209.07181,
title = {Dynamic scheduling for SOXS instrument: environment, algorithms and development},
author = {Laura Asquini and Marco Landoni and Dave Young and Laurent Marty and Stephen Smartt and Sergio Campana and Riccardo Claudi and Pietro Schipani and Matteo Aliverti and Federico Battaini and Andrea Baruffolo and Sagi Ben Ami and Andrea Bianco and Federico Biondi and Giulio Capasso and Rosario Cosentino and Francesco D'Alessio and Paolo D'Avanzo and Ofir Hershko and Hanindyo Kuncarayaktim Matteo Munari and Giuliano Pignata and Adam Rubin and Salvatore Scuderi and Fabrizio Vitali and Jani Achren and Jose Antonio Araiza Duran and Iair Arcavi and Anna Brucalassi and Rachel Bruch and Enrico Cappellaro and Mirko Colapietro and Massimo Della Valle and Marco De Pascale and Rosario Di Benedetto and Sergio D'Orsi and Avishay Gal Yam and Matteo Genoni and Marcos Hernandez and Jari Kotilainen and Gianluca Li Causi and Seppo Mattila and Giorgio Pariani and Michael Rappaport and Kalyan Radhakrishnan and Davide Ricci and Marco Riva and Bernardo Salasnich and Ricardo Zanmar Sanchez and Maximilian Stritzinger and Hector Ventura},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.07181},
year = {2022}
}
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Accepted for publication in SPIE Astronomical Telescope and Instrumentation Conference proceedings - Montreal (Canada) July 2022