Cerimonia 30° anniversario dell'ARA e cena

Il 15 dicembre alle ore 18.00 appuntamento in osservatorio per un breve saluto in occasione del 30°anniversario della fondazione dell'Associazione e per scambiarci gli auguri di Natale. Seguirà una cena presso il ristorante "il Tiranno".

Programma della serata

  • ore 18.00 saluti del Sindaco
  • ore 18.10 breve conferenza sulla storia dell'ARA (Massimo Calabresi)
  • al termine Cena al ristorante il Tiranno (è necessaria la prenotazione, "contattare il segretario":http://ara.roma.it/contacts/segretario entro e non oltre le 21:00 di mercoledì 12 dicembre)

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A mask quality control tool for the OSIRIS multi-object spectrograph

OSIRIS multi object spectrograph uses a set of user-customised-masks,
which are manufactured on-demand. The manufacturing process consists of
drilling the specified slits on the mask with the required accuracy.
Ensuring that slits are on the right place when observing is of vital
importance. We present a tool for checking the quality of the process of
manufacturing the masks which is based on analyzing the instrument
images obtained with the manufactured masks on place. The tool extracts
the slit information from these images, relates specifications with the
extracted slit information, and…

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J-PAS data management pipeline and archiving

J-PAS survey is going to observe 8000 deg<SUP>2</SUP> in 54 optical
narrow band filters plus 3 broad band ones. The survey will produce 1.2
PB of raw data in six years of observations. The treatment of about 1.5
TB per night, coming from the 14 detectors of the JPCam camera in the
JST/T250, plus one detector in the JAST/T80 camera, shall be performed
during the day after the operations. This contribution presents the
software and hardware architecture designed to process and validate the
data. The processing of the images is divided in two main stages. The
first one, which deals…

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