2023A: Report on the WINERED observations with Magellan
Summary
We made the very successful first run for scientific observations by several users from the Magellan consortium.
The instrumental performance and the weather were both good and a lot of scientific data were collected.
Allocation
- 2023/06/02 — Zhang (Chicago), Weinberger(Carnegie)
- 2023/06/03 — McWilliam (Carnegie)
- 2023/06/04 — Vissapragada, Dupree (Harvard)
- 2023/06/05 — Zhang (Chicago), Weinberger(Carnegie)
- 2023/06/06 — WINERED team
- 2023/06/07 — Vissapragada, Dupree (Harvard)
- 2023/06/08 — Rauscher (Michigan)
- 2023/06/09 — WINERED team
- 2023/06/10 — McWilliam (Carnegie)
- 2023/06/11 — Vissapragada, Dupree (Harvard)
- 2023/06/12 — Zhang (Chicago), Weinberger(Carnegie)
Instrumental performance
To be summarized.
- Performance was very well during the 11 night run. Useful scientific data were taken every night, with only several cloudy hours in total.
- Almost no instrumental trouble stoppted the operation, except a couple of hours in total during the run with the following bugs and for troubleshooting of the new guider system.
- The IR array occasionally fails and pauses. This is caused by a known bug of the array system and can be recovered by a WINERED personnel in a couple of minutes once it is noticed.
- Some FITS files were not properly completed and transferred to the servers. This is caused also by a known bug. We expect many of them can be recovered and useful for analysis.
- After a brief introduction, each observer operated the WINERED smoothly, but with WINERED personnels standing by for troubleshooting.
- Susccessful remote operation of WINRED by a few users in US through the VPN connection available for other instruments at the LCO.
- Observations with non-sidereal tracking were made without any problem.
Daily Log
- Pre-obs
- 2023/06/02 — WIDE (Setting 1), On-site obs by Michael/Remote obs by Alycia
- 2023/06/03 — HIRES-Y (Setting 2), Remote obs by Andy
- 2023/06/04 — HIRES-Y (Setting 2), On-site obs by Shreyas and Andrea (w. Yuri)
- 2023/06/05 — WIDE (Setting 3), On-site obs by Michael/Remote obs by Alycia
- 2023/06/06 — WIDE (Setting 3), On-site obs by the WINERED team
- 2023/06/07 — HIRES-Y (Setting 4), On-site obs by Shreyas and Andrea (w. Yuri)
- 2023/06/08 — HIRES-J (Setting 5), On-site obs by Lennart
- 2023/06/09 — WIDE (Setting 6), On-site obs by the WINERED team
- 2023/06/10 — HIRES-Y (Setting 7), On-side obs by Andy
- 2023/06/11 — HIRES-Y (Setting 7), On-site obs by Shreyas and Andrea (w. Yuri)
- 2023/06/12 — HIRES-Y (Setting 7), On-site obs by Michael and ???
- Post-obs
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