Paper 13098-11
Paper 13098-11
Advancing quality control in the era of extremely large telescopes: ensuring the integrity of scientific data
17 June 2024 • 15:50 - 16:10 Japan Standard Time | Room G316, North - 3F
Abstract
Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs) will usher in a new era of
observational astronomy, promising groundbreaking discoveries and
unprecedented insights in astrophysics. Their success critically
depends on rigorous control and management of science data and system
performance. ELTs and their advanced instrumentation, capture an
enormous volume of data in an unprecedented technical environment
introducing complex issues in data acquisition, processing, and
storage. Ensuring the accuracy, precision, and reliability of these
data is paramount to their success.
We present the design, and implementation of a renewed Quality Control
system for ELT, which will already be applied to the current VLT
operations at ESO. The aim of the system is an advanced automation of
data processing and quality assessment while safeguarding the
integrity and reliability of the produced scientific data. We present
the requirements and the concepts that form the basis of the software
that is already partially deployed on LaSilla Paranal Observatory.
Finally, we present an outlook on how to advance the real-time data
quality assessment of scientific astronomical data in the ELT era.
Presenter
Willem-Jan de Wit
European Southern Observatory (Chile)
Speaker is staff astronomer at ESO's Paranal Observatory. Former instrument scientist of the VLT-I instruments MIDI and AMBER and of GRAVITY during its first years of operations. An IR astronomer by trade, he was also IS of the mid-IR instrument VISIR. Following the top-level ELT requirements on quality control and performance monitoring, he was appointed as project scientist of ESO's QC-v2 project, to transform and enhance current quality control processes to meet the new standard.