Observatory end-to-end science operations is the overall process starting with a scientific question, represented by a proposal requesting observing time, and ending with the analysis of observation data addressing that question, and including all the intermediate steps needed to plan, schedule, obtain, and process these observations. Increasingly complex observing facilities demand a highly efficient science operations approach and at the same time be user friendly to the astronomical user community and enable the highest possible scientific return. Therefore, this process is supported by a collection of tools. In this paper, we describe the overall end-to-end process and its implementation for the three upcoming extremely large telescopes (ELTs), ESO's ELT, the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), and the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT).
@article{arxiv.2203.05456,
title = {End-to-end science operations in the era of extremely large telescopes},
author = {Olivier R. Hainaut and Marie Lemoine-Busserolle and Christophe Dumas and Robert W. Goodrich and Bryan W. Miller and Michael F. Sterzik and Thomas Bierwirth and Sidney Wolff and Andrew W. Stephens and Gelys Trancho and Warren Skidmore and Kim Gillies},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.05456},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
38 pages, 20 figures. Revised submission to the SPIE Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems