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This wiki is intended as a means of capturing and providing up-to-date operational information for the LBTI.

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Routine Operations

This section contains information on routine night-time operations of the LBTI and its components such as evening startup of AO and science cameras, observing instructions for different modes, etc.

Adaptive Optics

  • Main AO page [link]
  • Quick setup [link]
  • Operations [link]
  • AO Cheatsheet [link]
  • Troubleshooting [link]

Science Cameras

Interferometry

Instrument Maintenance

This section contains information on the maintenance procedures of the LBTI and its components such as procedures for routine replacement of parts, information data archiving, health checks, and routine calibrations.

Health Checks and Routine Calibrations

As part of NASA's mission assurance during the HOSTS survey and additionally in order to streamline procedures with LBTO and satisfy LBTO requirements, we have implemented a range of instrument health checks. In addition, there are a range of routine calibrations that benefit a large range of science projects and our own instrumentation work. These tasks are summarized in the table below:

Task Interval Instructions
LBTI pre-run check-out ~1 week before each run link
LMIRCam nightly darks each night on sky link
LMIRCam AO health check each night on sky link
LMIRCam detector linearity each run link
LMIRCam distortion correction each run link
LMIRCam astrometry solution each semester link

Recovering from NOMIC and LMIRCam detector errors

NOMIC [link]

LMIRCam [link]

Data archiving

Changing a PID retroactively [link]

NIC Vacuum and Cooling

NIC Vacuum and Cooling Procedures [link]

Gate Valve On/Off Procedureslink]

Computer Setup & Configuration

Software

INDI Drivers & Their Properties

Reference Material

Here is a list of references such as technical manuals, sketches, models, informal overviews, etc.

The Amali Lectures: Optics | Diffraction and Aberrations | Turbulence & WFS | WFS | Control Systems | LBTI System Design | AO Simulation | AO Performance Measurement | AO Problems | Questions

Data Jive: Post Library Meeting

NIC Info: FilterWheels

Miscellaneous

Here is a list of random things that are not directly related to any of the topics above and may not even be directly related to LBTI, but are still relevant to some members of our team and useful to document at a random place (so may as well be documented here).

Steve's house of curiosities and random notes [link].

Mag AO Stuff: Katie's List

lbti_diagram.png

Temporary:

LBTI Operators Manual

LBTI Web Utilities
I Attachment Action Size Date Who Comment
LLTH Network Map V.2.pdfpdf LLTH Network Map V.2.pdf manage 46 K 26 Apr 2021 - 22:50 EmilyMailhot  
LLTH Network Map.pdfpdf LLTH Network Map.pdf manage 44 K 21 Apr 2021 - 21:02 EmilyMailhot  
lbti_diagram.pngpng lbti_diagram.png manage 146 K 16 Nov 2018 - 19:33 AmaliVaz LBTI Diagram
pid_correction.py.txttxt pid_correction.py.txt manage 602 bytes 17 Jun 2019 - 15:21 LbtiObserver Script for changing PID numbers in the header of files stored up on the mountain.
Topic revision: r56 - 07 May 2021, JenniferPower
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