Paper 13101-47
The WINTER robotic software system: autonomous control and scheduling for a time-domain astronomy telescope
19 June 2024 • 10:30 - 10:50 Japan Standard Time | Room G314/315, North - 3F
Abstract
The Wide-Field Infrared Transient Explorer (WINTER) is a new fully robotic infrared time-domain survey instrument at the Palomar Observatory, commissioned in June 2023. WINTER is performing a seeing-limited time domain survey of the infrared (IR) sky to detect, discover, and characterize astrophysical time-domain phenomena. As a dedicated observatory for real-time detection and rapid follow-up of infrared transient and variable targets, WINTER represents a new capability for multi-messenger astrophysics. We will describe the robotic software architecture of the WINTER Supervisor Program (WSP) which handles autonomous scheduling of both surveys and target-of-opportunity interrupts, as well as control and remote monitoring of the observatory, telescope, and cameras.
Presenter
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States)
Dr. Frostig recently received her PhD in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she completed her thesis on the design, development, and commissioning of the WINTER infrared camera.