Dynamic scheduling for SOXS instrument: Environment, algorithms and development

Laura Asquini; Marco Landoni; Dave Young; Laurent Marty; Stephen J. Smartt; Sergio Campana; Riccardo Claudi; Pietro Schipani; Matteo Aliverti; Federico Battaini; Andrea Baruffolo; Sagi Ben-Ami; Andrea Bianco; Giulio Capasso; Rosario Cosentino; Francesco D'Alessio; Paolo d'Avanzo; Ofir Hershko; Hanindyo Kuncarayakti; Matteo Munari; Giuliano Pignata; Adam Rubin; Scuderi Salvatore; Fabrizio Vitali; Jani Achrèn; Josè Araiza-Duràn; Iair Arcavi; Anna Brucalassi; Rachel Bruch; Enrico Cappellaro; Mirko Colapietro; Massimo Della Valle; Marco De Pascale; Rosario Di Benedetto; Sergio D'Orsi; Avishay Gal-Yam; Matteo Genoni; Marcos Hernandez Díaz; Jari Kotilainen; Gianluca Li Causi; Seppo Mattila; Giorgio Pariani; Micheal Rappaport; Kalyan Radhakrishnan; Davide Ricci; Marco Riva; Bernardo Salasnich; Ricardo Zanmar Sanchez; Maximilian Stritzinger; Hector Ventura

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Dynamic scheduling for SOXS instrument: Environment, algorithms and development

Laura Asquini, Marco Landoni, Dave Young, Laurent Marty, Stephen J. Smartt, Sergio Campana, Riccardo Claudi, Pietro Schipani, Matteo Aliverti, Federico Battaini, Andrea Baruffolo, Sagi Ben-Ami, Andrea Bianco, Giulio Capasso, Rosario Cosentino, Francesco D'Alessio, Paolo d'Avanzo, Ofir Hershko, Hanindyo Kuncarayakti, Matteo MunariGiuliano Pignata, Adam Rubin, Scuderi Salvatore, Fabrizio Vitali, Jani Achrèn, Josè Araiza-Duràn, Iair Arcavi, Anna Brucalassi, Rachel Bruch, Enrico Cappellaro, Mirko Colapietro, Massimo Della Valle, Marco De Pascale, Rosario Di Benedetto, Sergio D'Orsi, Avishay Gal-Yam, Matteo Genoni, Marcos Hernandez Díaz, Jari Kotilainen, Gianluca Li Causi, Seppo Mattila, Giorgio Pariani, Micheal Rappaport, Kalyan Radhakrishnan, Davide Ricci, Marco Riva, Bernardo Salasnich, Ricardo Zanmar Sanchez, Maximilian Stritzinger, Hector Ventura

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We present development progress of the scheduler for the Son Of X-Shooter (SOXS) instrument at the ESO-NTT 3.58-m telescope. SOXS will be a single object spectroscopic facility, consisting of a two-arms high-efficiency spectrograph covering the spectral range 350-2000 nm with a mean resolving power R≈4500. 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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VII
Editors	Jorge Ibsen, Gianluca Chiozzi
Publisher	SPIE
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510653597
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2628890
Publication status	Published - 2022
Event	Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VII 2022 - Montreal, Canada Duration: 17 Jul 2022 → 21 Jul 2022

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Series	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	12189

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Conference	Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VII 2022
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Montreal
Period	17/7/22 → 21/7/22

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
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Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Asquini, L., Landoni, M., Young, D., Marty, L., Smartt, S. J., Campana, S., Claudi, R., Schipani, P., Aliverti, M., Battaini, F., Baruffolo, A., Ben-Ami, S., Bianco, A., Capasso, G., Cosentino, R., D'Alessio, F., d'Avanzo, P., Hershko, O., Kuncarayakti, H., ... Ventura, H. (2022). Dynamic scheduling for SOXS instrument: Environment, algorithms and development. In J. Ibsen, & G. Chiozzi (Eds.), Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VII Article 121890A SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2628890

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Dynamic scheduling for SOXS instrument: Environment, algorithms and development. / Asquini, Laura; Landoni, Marco; Young, Dave et al.
Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VII. ed. / Jorge Ibsen; Gianluca Chiozzi. SPIE, 2022. 121890A (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol. 12189).

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