STARS: a software application for the EBEX autonomous daytime star cameras

Daniel Chapman; Joy Didier; Shaul Hanany; Seth Hillbrand; Michele Limon; Amber Miller; Britt Reichborn-Kjennerud; Greg Tucker; Yury Vinokurov

doi:10.1117/12.2057181

18 July 2014 STARS: a software application for the EBEX autonomous daytime star cameras

Daniel Chapman, Joy Didier, Shaul Hanany, Seth Hillbrand, Michele Limon, Amber Miller, Britt Reichborn-Kjennerud, Greg Tucker, Yury Vinokurov

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Proceedings Volume 9152, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy III; 915212 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2057181
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2014, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Abstract

The E and B Experiment (EBEX) is a balloon-borne telescope designed to probe polarization signals in the CMB resulting from primordial gravitational waves, gravitational lensing, and Galactic dust emission. EBEX completed an 11 day flight over Antarctica in January 2013 and data analysis is underway. EBEX employs two star cameras to achieve its real-time and post-flight pointing requirements. We wrote a software application called STARS to operate, command, and collect data from each of the star cameras, and to interface them with the main flight computer. We paid special attention to make the software robust against potential in-flight failures. We report on the implementation, testing, and successful in flight performance of STARS.

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Daniel Chapman, Joy Didier, Shaul Hanany, Seth Hillbrand, Michele Limon, Amber Miller, Britt Reichborn-Kjennerud, Greg Tucker, and Yury Vinokurov "STARS: a software application for the EBEX autonomous daytime star cameras", Proc. SPIE 9152, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy III, 915212 (18 July 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2057181

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