IOTA - Instrument Subsystems

Last (very gentle) update: 2005-02-11
 

• Concise Instrument Start-up (as of Dec. 2005) and Computer Start-up procedures

• General
  • Vacuum procedures
  • Alignment

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  • Anorad
  • Long Delay Line 2000  (also available 1999)
  • Stovepipes (ps or jpeg)
  • Telescope
  • Pointing model
  • Startracker: General remarks, nominal count rates (quick-look table, Sam Ragland, Nov. 2003), CCD replacement
  • Vxworks: CCD Interface
  • GPS clock

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  • Closing telescopes shelters during a snowstorm
  • In Case of Power Outage
  • On the Sun freezing when VMEs are off
  • iota0 Printing Tricks

• OT/ICS
  • Using the New Control System at IOTA (version March 2002)
  • Using the mc shell on the Sun to access shared memory

• 3T-DAQ
  • Using the PICNIC Data Acquisition system for 3T observing

• NICMOS Camera
  (question or comments email: rafael@ipac.caltech.edu )
  • Pumping and Cooling the Nicmos
    • Evacuating and cooling the NICMOS3
    • Start up procedure for the pump and the leak detector
    • Leak detection
    • Shut down the pump
  • Nicmos3 User's Manual
    • Start-up
    • Alignment
    • Fringe sampling
    • Shutdown
    • Final shutdown or bad weather shutdown
    • Filter wheel
    • Dewar
    • Piezo scanner
  • UPDATE - March 2000
    • New piezo scanner
    • NICMOS3 & FLUOR (NOTE: In July 2002, FLUOR moved to CHARA.)
  • UPDATE - November 2000
    • Modifications to Filter Wheel
    • NICMOS3 & IONIC
  • Taking Apart the Nicmos Camera
    • Preliminaries
    • Drawings
    • Open the dewar
    • Remove outer shell of bottom part of dewar
    • Remove the detector box
    • Open the detector box
    • Pull out the detector card
    • Put it all back together

• PICNIC Camera
  (questions or comments email: rafael@ipac.caltech.edu )
  • PICNIC Camera Documentation (work in progress)
  • Flux levels of PICNIC (Sam Ragland, Dec. 2003)
  • Available Filters

• The FLUOR Experiment (NOTE: In July 2002, FLUOR moved to CHARA.)
  • FLUOR software manual

• Ongoing projects:
  • LLiST - IOTA's new star tracker camera since March 2004
  • PICNIC Filter Wheel Motorization