ICALEPCS2019 - List of Authors (Cirami, R.)

Paper	Title	Page
MOPHA029	FORS-Up: An Upgrade of the FORS2 Instrument @ ESO VLT	253
	R. Cirami, V. Baldini, I. Coretti, P. Di Marcantonio INAF-OAT, Trieste, Italy H. Boffin, F. Derie, A. Manescau, R. Siebenmorgen ESO, Garching bei Muenchen, Germany
	The FORS Upgrade project (FORS-Up), financed by the European Southern Observatory, aims at upgrading the FORS2 instrument currently installed on the UT1 telescope of the ESO Very Large Telescope in Chile. FORS2 is an optical instrument that can be operated in different modes (imaging, polarimetry, long-slit and multi-object spectroscopy). Due to its versatility, the ESO Scientific Technical Committee has identified FORS2 as a highly demanded workhorse among the VLT instruments that shall remain operative for the next 15 years. The main goals of the FORS-Up project are the replacement of the FORS2 scientific detector and the upgrade of the instrument control software and electronics. The project is conceived as "fast track" so that FORS2 is upgraded to the VLT for 2022. This paper focuses on the outcomes of the FORS-Up Phase A, ended in February 2019, and carried out as a collaboration between ESO and INAF – Astronomical Observatory of Trieste, this latter in charge of the feasibility study of the upgrade of the control software and electronics with the latest VLT standard technologies (among them the use of the PLCs and of the latest features of the VLT Control Software).
	Poster MOPHA029 [4.293 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-MOPHA029
About •	paper received ※ 27 September 2019 paper accepted ※ 08 October 2019 issue date ※ 30 August 2020
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MOPHA030	An Upgrade of the HARPS-N Spectrograph Autoguider at TNG	258
	R. Cirami, I. Coretti, P. Di Marcantonio INAF-OAT, Trieste, Italy F. Alesina, N. Buchschacher, F. Pepe Université de Genève, Observatoire Astronomique, Versoix, Switzerland
	HARPS-N is a high-precision radial-velocity spectrograph installed on the INAF TNG in the island of La Palma, Canary Islands. The HARPS-N project is a collaboration among several institutes lead by the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Geneva. The HARPS-N control software is composed by the Sequencer, which coordinates the scientific observations and by a series of modules implemented in LabVIEW for the control of the instrument front end, calibration unit and autoguider. The autoguider is the subsystem in charge of maintaining the target centered on the spectrograph fiber. It acquires target images at high frequency with a technical CDD and with the help of dedicated algorithms keeps the target centered on the fiber through a piezo tip-tilt stage. Exploiting the expertise acquired with the autoguiding system of the ESPRESSO spectrograph installed at the ESO VLT, a collaboration has been setup between the HARPS-N Consortium and the INAF - Astronomical Observatory of Trieste for the design and implementation of a new autoguider for HARPS-N. This paper describes the design, implementation and installation phases of the new autoguider system.
	Poster MOPHA030 [1.382 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-MOPHA030
About •	paper received ※ 29 September 2019 paper accepted ※ 08 October 2019 issue date ※ 30 August 2020
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WEPHA093	Code Generation based on IFML for the User Interfaces of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA)	1307
	M. Brambilla, M. Gasparini, S. Pavanetto POLIMI, Milano, Italy R. Cirami, A. Marassi INAF-OAT, Trieste, Italy
	The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project is responsible for developing the SKA Observatory, the world’s largest radiotelescope ever built. In this context, a number of Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) have to be designed and built to be used for monitoring and control, testing, simulation, integration, commissioning and maintenance. The Tango framework and its UI tools, selected for SKA in 2015, support the types of basic control interfaces currently used at both radio telescopes and within high energy physics experiments. This paper reports on the development of a Qt/Taurus code generator prototype based on the IFML (Interaction Flow Modeling Language) standard and respective modeling tools, that are extended for supporting the platform-specific code generation. The purpose of this work is to enable the use of low-code development in SKA GUI design, thus enabling increased efficiency, reliability and coherency of the produced UI. We present a simple GUI use case as complete example of software development cycle starting from requirements and including IFML modelling, Qt/Taurus automatic coding, interface evaluation and validation.
	Poster WEPHA093 [0.576 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-WEPHA093
About •	paper received ※ 02 October 2019 paper accepted ※ 09 October 2019 issue date ※ 30 August 2020
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FORS-Up: An Upgrade of the FORS2 Instrument @ ESO VLT

253

R. Cirami, V. Baldini, I. Coretti, P. Di Marcantonio
INAF-OAT, Trieste, Italy
H. Boffin, F. Derie, A. Manescau, R. Siebenmorgen
ESO, Garching bei Muenchen, Germany

The FORS Upgrade project (FORS-Up), financed by the European Southern Observatory, aims at upgrading the FORS2 instrument currently installed on the UT1 telescope of the ESO Very Large Telescope in Chile. FORS2 is an optical instrument that can be operated in different modes (imaging, polarimetry, long-slit and multi-object spectroscopy). Due to its versatility, the ESO Scientific Technical Committee has identified FORS2 as a highly demanded workhorse among the VLT instruments that shall remain operative for the next 15 years. The main goals of the FORS-Up project are the replacement of the FORS2 scientific detector and the upgrade of the instrument control software and electronics. The project is conceived as "fast track" so that FORS2 is upgraded to the VLT for 2022. This paper focuses on the outcomes of the FORS-Up Phase A, ended in February 2019, and carried out as a collaboration between ESO and INAF – Astronomical Observatory of Trieste, this latter in charge of the feasibility study of the upgrade of the control software and electronics with the latest VLT standard technologies (among them the use of the PLCs and of the latest features of the VLT Control Software).

Poster MOPHA029 [4.293 MB]

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reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-MOPHA029

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paper received ※ 27 September 2019 paper accepted ※ 08 October 2019 issue date ※ 30 August 2020

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MOPHA030

An Upgrade of the HARPS-N Spectrograph Autoguider at TNG

258

R. Cirami, I. Coretti, P. Di Marcantonio
INAF-OAT, Trieste, Italy
F. Alesina, N. Buchschacher, F. Pepe
Université de Genève, Observatoire Astronomique, Versoix, Switzerland

HARPS-N is a high-precision radial-velocity spectrograph installed on the INAF TNG in the island of La Palma, Canary Islands. The HARPS-N project is a collaboration among several institutes lead by the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Geneva. The HARPS-N control software is composed by the Sequencer, which coordinates the scientific observations and by a series of modules implemented in LabVIEW for the control of the instrument front end, calibration unit and autoguider. The autoguider is the subsystem in charge of maintaining the target centered on the spectrograph fiber. It acquires target images at high frequency with a technical CDD and with the help of dedicated algorithms keeps the target centered on the fiber through a piezo tip-tilt stage. Exploiting the expertise acquired with the autoguiding system of the ESPRESSO spectrograph installed at the ESO VLT, a collaboration has been setup between the HARPS-N Consortium and the INAF - Astronomical Observatory of Trieste for the design and implementation of a new autoguider for HARPS-N. This paper describes the design, implementation and installation phases of the new autoguider system.

Poster MOPHA030 [1.382 MB]

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reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-MOPHA030

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paper received ※ 29 September 2019 paper accepted ※ 08 October 2019 issue date ※ 30 August 2020

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WEPHA093

Code Generation based on IFML for the User Interfaces of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA)

1307

M. Brambilla, M. Gasparini, S. Pavanetto
POLIMI, Milano, Italy
R. Cirami, A. Marassi
INAF-OAT, Trieste, Italy

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project is responsible for developing the SKA Observatory, the world’s largest radiotelescope ever built. In this context, a number of Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) have to be designed and built to be used for monitoring and control, testing, simulation, integration, commissioning and maintenance. The Tango framework and its UI tools, selected for SKA in 2015, support the types of basic control interfaces currently used at both radio telescopes and within high energy physics experiments. This paper reports on the development of a Qt/Taurus code generator prototype based on the IFML (Interaction Flow Modeling Language) standard and respective modeling tools, that are extended for supporting the platform-specific code generation. The purpose of this work is to enable the use of low-code development in SKA GUI design, thus enabling increased efficiency, reliability and coherency of the produced UI. We present a simple GUI use case as complete example of software development cycle starting from requirements and including IFML modelling, Qt/Taurus automatic coding, interface evaluation and validation.

Poster WEPHA093 [0.576 MB]

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reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-WEPHA093

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paper received ※ 02 October 2019 paper accepted ※ 09 October 2019 issue date ※ 30 August 2020

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