ALMA

ALMA

ESO

ESO

Gemini

Gemini

IRAM

IRAM

JCMT/UKIRT

JCMT / UKIRT

NRAO EVLA

• EVLA Dynamic scheduling plans - not yet implemented

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Gemini

Gemini

• Software Papers:
  • Execution of queue-scheduled observations with the Gemini 8m telescopes
  • Gemini Operations: A Queue Scheduling Simulation

JCMT/UKIRT

JCMT/UKIRT

• UKIRT Flexible Scheduling
• The UKIRT Schedule
• Flexible Scheduling of the UK Infrared Telescope (UKIRT)
• Results of the UKIRT reactive scheduling experiment
• Queue Scheduling at the JCMT: the Real-life Experience
• Queue-based Flexible Implementation Guidelines

• jac_v3.pdf: JAC and Gemini Dynamci scheduling presentation

• jac_v3.pdf: JAC and Gemini Dynamic scheduling presentation

How Other Telescopes/Observatories Approach Dynamic Scheduling

JCMT/UKIRT & Gemini visit

• jac_v3.pdf: JAC and Gemini Dynamci scheduling presentation

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JCMT

JCMT/UKIRT

UKIRT

• UKIRT uses JAC's observing software

-- NicoleRadziwill - 03 Jul 2005

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How Other Telescopes/Observatories Approach Dynamic Scheduling

JCMT

ALMA

• Flexible Scheduling Rules
• Preparing observations using the JCMT Observing Tool
• SPIE 2004: Observer vs. Software Engineer: The dawn of the armchair astronomers by Economou & Jenness et al.

• Mel Wright's 1999 discourse on Dynamic Scheduling for ALMA - in ps format

UKIRT

• UKIRT uses JAC's observing software
• Overview of Observing at UKIRT
• Approach to Flexible Scheduling
• Target of Opportunity Handling

ESO

• ESO Science Operations Policy describing processes for Visitor Mode (classical scheduling) and Service Mode; only service observing is flexibly scheduled
• Policy for predictable and less predictable Target of Opportunity observations
• Policy for Director's Discretionary Time
• Some feedback from ESO's users committee about their flexible scheduling and software

ALMA

IRAM

• Mel Wright's 1999 discourse on Dynamic Scheduling for ALMA - in ps format

• 30m Pool Observing

ESO

JCMT

• ESO Science Operations Policy describing processes for Visitor Mode (classical scheduling) and Service Mode; only service observing is flexibly scheduled
• Policy for predictable and less predictable Target of Opportunity observations
• Policy for Director's Discretionary Time
• Some feedback from ESO's users committee about their flexible scheduling and software

• Flexible Scheduling Rules
• Preparing observations using the JCMT Observing Tool
• SPIE 2004: Observer vs. Software Engineer: The dawn of the armchair astronomers by Economou & Jenness et al.
• Delory_OMP_Feedback.pdf: The OMP Feedback System at the JCMT
• Kackley_JCMT.pdf: The JCMT Observing Queue and Recipe Sequencer

UKIRT

• UKIRT uses JAC's observing software
• Overview of Observing at UKIRT
• Approach to Flexible Scheduling
• Target of Opportunity Handling

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JAC

JCMT

• Flexible Scheduling Rules
• Preparing observations using the JCMT Observing Tool

• ESO Science Operations Policy describing processes for Visitor Mode (classical scheduling) and Service Mode; only service observing is flexibly scheduled
• Policy for predictable and less predictable Target of Opportunity observations
• Policy for Director's Discretionary Time

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How Other Telescopes/Observatories Approach Dynamic Scheduling

• How Other Telescopes/Observatories Approach Dynamic Scheduling
  • JAC
  • UKIRT
  • Gemini
  • ALMA
  • ESO

JAC

• SPIE 2004: Observer vs. Software Engineer: The dawn of the armchair astronomers by Economou & Jenness et al.

UKIRT

• UKIRT uses JAC's observing software
• Overview of Observing at UKIRT
• Approach to Flexible Scheduling
• Target of Opportunity Handling

Gemini

• Gemini's Science Operations Plan - interesting read, discusses queue operation and observer notification
• There are four observing modes supported:
  • Queue Mode
  • Classical Mode
  • Quick Response/Target of Opportunity
  • DDT - Director's Discretionary Time
• Their Observing Constraints which provide scheduling metadata
• Their Observing Tool

ALMA

• Mel Wright's 1999 discourse on Dynamic Scheduling for ALMA - in ps format

ESO

• Some feedback from ESO's users committee about their flexible scheduling and software

-- NicoleRadziwill - 03 Jul 2005