Real-time exposure control and instrument operation with the NEID spectrograph GUI

Arvind F. Gupta; Chad F. Bender; Joe P. Ninan; Sarah E. Logsdon; Shubham Kanodia; Eli Golub; Jesus Higuera; Jessica Klusmeyer; Samuel Halverson; Suvrath Mahadevan; Michael McElwain; Christian Schwab; Gudmundur Stefansson; Paul Robertson; Arpita Roy; Ryan Terrien; Jason Wright

doi:10.1117/12.2630260

Real-time exposure control and instrument operation with the NEID spectrograph GUI

Arvind F. Gupta^*, Chad F. Bender, Joe P. Ninan, Sarah E. Logsdon, Shubham Kanodia, Eli Golub, Jesus Higuera, Jessica Klusmeyer, Samuel Halverson, Suvrath Mahadevan, Michael McElwain, Christian Schwab, Gudmundur Stefansson, Paul Robertson, Arpita Roy, Ryan Terrien, Jason Wright

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The NEID spectrograph on the WIYN 3.5-m telescope at Kitt Peak has completed its first full year of science operations and is reliably delivering sub-m/s precision radial velocity measurements. The NEID instrument control system uses the TIMS package (Bender et al. 2016), which is a client-server software system built around the twisted python software stack. During science observations, interaction with the NEID spectrograph is handled through a pair of graphical user interfaces (GUIs), written in PyQT, which wrap the underlying instrument control software and provide straightforward and reliable access to the instrument. Here, we detail the design of these interfaces and present an overview of their use for NEID operations. Observers can use the NEID GUIs to set the exposure time, signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) threshold, and other relevant parameters for observations, configure the calibration bench and observing mode, track or edit observation metadata, and monitor the current state of the instrument. These GUIs facilitate automatic spectrograph configuration and target ingestion from the nightly observing queue, which improves operational efficiency and consistency across epochs. By interfacing with the NEID exposure meter, the GUIs also allow observers to monitor the progress of individual exposures and trigger the shutter on user-defined SNR thresholds. In addition, inset plots of the instantaneous and cumulative exposure meter counts as each observation progresses allow for rapid diagnosis of changing observing conditions as well as guiding failure and other emergent issues.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VII
Editors	Jorge Ibsen, Gianluca Chiozzi
Place of Publication	Bellingham, Washington
Publisher	SPIE
Pages	1218925-1-1218925-10
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510653603
ISBN (Print)	9781510653597
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630260
Publication status	Published - 2022
Event	Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VII 2022 - Montreal, Canada Duration: 17 Jul 2022 → 21 Jul 2022

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	12189
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

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Conference	Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VII 2022
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Montreal
Period	17/07/22 → 21/07/22

Keywords

graphical user interface
GUI
instrument control software
NEID
radial velocity
spectrograph

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Gupta, A. F., Bender, C. F., Ninan, J. P., Logsdon, S. E., Kanodia, S., Golub, E., Higuera, J., Klusmeyer, J., Halverson, S., Mahadevan, S., McElwain, M., Schwab, C., Stefansson, G., Robertson, P., Roy, A., Terrien, R., & Wright, J. (2022). Real-time exposure control and instrument operation with the NEID spectrograph GUI. In J. Ibsen, & G. Chiozzi (Eds.), Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VII (pp. 1218925-1-1218925-10). Article 1218925 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 12189). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630260

Gupta, Arvind F. ; Bender, Chad F. ; Ninan, Joe P. et al. / Real-time exposure control and instrument operation with the NEID spectrograph GUI. Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VII. editor / Jorge Ibsen ; Gianluca Chiozzi. Bellingham, Washington : SPIE, 2022. pp. 1218925-1-1218925-10 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering).

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Real-time exposure control and instrument operation with the NEID spectrograph GUI. / Gupta, Arvind F.; Bender, Chad F.; Ninan, Joe P. et al.
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Gupta AF, Bender CF, Ninan JP, Logsdon SE, Kanodia S, Golub E et al. Real-time exposure control and instrument operation with the NEID spectrograph GUI. In Ibsen J, Chiozzi G, editors, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VII. Bellingham, Washington: SPIE. 2022. p. 1218925-1-1218925-10. 1218925. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering). doi: 10.1117/12.2630260

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