The Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre: engineering of observatory facilities and physical infrastructure, goals, and current status

Yanes-Díaz, A.; Luis-Simoes, R.; Lasso-Cabrera, N. M.; Rueda-Teruel, S.; Rueda-Teruel, F.; Anton, Jean-Luc; Chueca, S.; Bello, Ridwan Opeyemi; Jiménez-Mejías, D.; Suárez, O.; Guillén-Civera, L.; López-Alegre, G.; Rodríguez-Hernández, M. A. C.; Moles, M.; Cenarro, A. J.; Marín-Franch, A.; Ederoclite, A.; Cristóbal-Hornillos, D.; Varela, J.; Civera, T.; Muniesa, D.; Ramió, H. Vázquez; Díaz-Martín, M. C.; Iglesias-Marzoa, R.; Maícas, N.; Lamadrid, J. L.; López-Sáinz, Á.; Hernández-Fuertes, J.; Valdivielso, L.

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“…Apart from the telescopes, scientific instrumentation, GOCS [4]- [9] and general infrastructure, the OAJ [1][[3] also includes the data center Unidad de Procesado y Archivo de Datos [15] (UPAD) with capacity to provide reduced and calibrated data on a quasi-real time basis and to archive and allow external access to the whole scientific community to images, data and UPAD generated catalogues.…”

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“…On the other hand, there is a comprehensive approach for control system design as an all-inclusive concept for all and every single system deployed in the observatory "GOCS". The GOCS [4]- [9] stands for Global Observatory Control System, it is an integrated software-hardware infrastructure that integrates all systems located at the observatory. GOCS uses a set of rules and regulations grouped as a model that unifies fundamental characteristics of systems, procedures and control flows to provide a single tool that simplifies global operation of the observatory.…”

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“…The GOCS [4]- [9] idea was developed by CEFCA in 2011 using CIA [4]- [9] model in order to set up the OAJ as a fully automated astrophysical observatory. The relationship between all systems deployed at the observatory has to be optimized in order to facilitate coordination and best performance for observatory global functionality.…”

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“…Figure 3 shows, a small representative sample of observatory`s systems grouped together to be coordinated into different process channels: P080, PGEN and PINS CIA [4]- [9] model summarizes the set of minimum requirements to fulfill the design of the GOCS [4]- [9] in order to add and obtain high performance in the observatory's functionality. As we have seen, it extends the functionality of classical OCS to achieve the main goals by adding the specific requirements.…”

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“…There are two first main scientific projects defined to be conducted at the OAJ with the assistance of the Global Observatory Control System (GOCS [4]- [9] ). They are J-PLUS [14] (Javalambre Photometric Local Universe Survey) and J-PAS [12] [13] (Javalambre Physics of the Accelerating Universe Astrophysical Survey).…”

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The Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ †1 ) in Spain is a young astronomical facility, conceived and developed from the beginning as a fully automated observatory with the main goal of optimizing the processes in the scientific and general operation of the Observatory. The OAJ has been particularly conceived for carrying out large sky surveys with two unprecedented telescopes of unusually large fields of view (FoV): the JST/T250, a 2.55m telescope of 3deg field of view, and the JAST/T80, an 83cm telescope of 2deg field of view. The most immediate objective of the two telescopes for the next years is carrying out two unique photometric surveys of several thousands square degrees, J-PAS †2 and J-PLUS †3 , each of them with a wide range of scientific applications, like e.g. large structure cosmology and Dark Energy, galaxy evolution, supernovae, Milky Way structure, exoplanets, among many others. To do that, JST and JAST are equipped with panoramic cameras under development within the J-PAS collaboration, JPCam and T80Cam respectively, which make use of large format (~ 10k x 10k) CCDs covering the entire focal plane. This paper describes in detail, from operations point of view, a comparison between the detailed cost of the global automation of the Observatory and the standard automation cost for astronomical facilities, in reference to the total investment and highlighting all benefits obtained from this approach and difficulties encountered. The paper also describes the engineering development of the overall facilities and infrastructures for the fully automated observatory and a global overview of current status, pinpointing lessons learned in order to boost observatory operations performance, achieving scientific targets, maintaining quality requirements, but also minimizing operation cost and human resources.

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