Dr. Rachel A. Street Profile

Dr. Rachel A. Street

Staff Scientist at Las Cumbres Observatory

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Publications (11)

Proceedings Article | 25 August 2022 Presentation + Paper

The Observatory Control System (OCS): open-source applications for managing the users, proposals, observation requests, scheduling, and science data for an observatory

J. Nation, M. Bowman, M. Daily, T. A. Lister, J. Sohi, L. J. Storrie-Lombardi, R. A. Street

Proceedings Volume 12186, 121860Q (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2629809

KEYWORDS: Astronomical software, Open source software, Software frameworks, Observatories, Telescopes, Databases, Control systems, Optimization (mathematics)

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Proceedings Article | 25 August 2022 Presentation + Paper

Las Cumbres Observatory: preparing for second decade operations

L. J. Storrie-Lombardi, M. Bowman, D. Harbeck, B. Haworth, A. Kirby, W. M. Lindstrom, C. McCully, J. Nation, R. A. Street, N. H. Volgenau

Proceedings Volume 12186, 121860I (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630470

KEYWORDS: Observatories, Telescopes, Astronomy, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, Climate change, Efficient operations, Robotic systems

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Proceedings Article | 25 August 2022 Presentation + Paper

Calibration-TOM: managing calibration observations for a global network of telescopes

N. Volgenau, D. Harbeck, W. Lindstrom, D. Collom, R. Street, M. Johnson

Proceedings Volume 12186, 121860W (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2628704

KEYWORDS: Calibration, Telescopes, Observatories, Imaging systems, Spectrographs, Astronomical telescopes, Databases, Astronomy, Visualization, Data archive systems

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Proceedings Article | 25 August 2022 Poster + Paper

ExoTOM: a target-observation-manager automating exoplanet transit follow-up

Tilman Masur, Tim-Oliver Husser, Sebastian Schäfer, Stefan Dreizler, Rachel Street

Proceedings Volume 12186, 121861O (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2628823

KEYWORDS: Photometry, Telescopes, Exoplanets, Data analysis

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Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Presentation + Paper

The Astrophysical Events Observatories Network (AEON)

R. Street, A. Adamson, J. Blakeslee, R. Blum, A. Bolton, T. Boroson, M. Bowman, C. Briceño, J. Elias, E. Gomez, S. Heathcote, E. Heinrich-Josties, A. Hopkinson, C.-H. Lee, B. Miller, J. Nation, S. Ridgway, D. Silva, L. Storrie-Lombardi

Proceedings Volume 11449, 1144925 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2559986

KEYWORDS: Observatories, Telescopes, Astronomy, Instrument modeling, Astronomical telescopes

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Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Poster + Presentation + Paper

SALT transient science with TOMs

Ruby Van Rooyen, Deneys Maartens, David Buckley, Marissa Kotse, Christian Hettlage, Stephen Potter, Rachel Street

Proceedings Volume 11452, 114523L (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562250

KEYWORDS: Visibility, Satellites, X-rays, Telescopes, Earth observing sensors, Prototyping, Visualization, Lanthanum, Observatories, Astronomical telescopes

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One aspect of the SALT X-ray transient program is the identification of SALT observation time that overlaps with scheduled X-ray satellite observations. This is particularly relevant to the optical study of X-ray transients. Since SALT is a fixed elevation telescope, the target visibility is restricted to a circular annulus on the sky covering a total of 1 380 square degrees. In order to identify satellite targets that overlap with SALT visibility, a custom Python program was developed to scrape daily schedules of a number of satellites, and calculate the SALT annulus visibility period of the satellite targets to find overlapping observation time between the satellites and SALT. If a target observation time overlaps in visibility, the relevant information is published to a web page, as well as summarised in an email for dissemination by a mailing list. Transient alerts by email is an old established method, but it clogs inboxes and requires time during the day to evaluate for scheduling — followed by an independent process to request or submit a target for observation to a telescope. It also requires a human in the loop, which will become increasingly challenging as the frequency of alerts increase over time. To streamline the process, from evaluation to submission, SALT (and by extension the SAAO intelligent observatory) is in the midst of developing a prototype TOM for the X-ray transient observations. The aim of the prototype development is to identify and implement the components that will make SALT observations more easily undertaken for the transient community using TOMs1 for target management and observation. The current SALT X-ray transient email alert software, Xsats, contains all the components necessary to migrate to a TOM transient alert interface. Additionally, because the current email alerts have been running for a while, user needs and requirements are already folded into the code; thereby permitting a straight-up mapping onto new technology, using the existing system as independent verification. This paper presents the overall design describing the migration process, as well as application-based development that will be required.

Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Poster + Presentation + Paper

Making AEON a reality using APIs: experience integrating LCOGT and SOAR

J. Nation, M. Bowman, E. Heinrich-Josties, R. Street

Proceedings Volume 11452, 114522N (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2560761

KEYWORDS: Observatories, Telescopes, Lanthanum, Robotics, Control systems, Astronomy

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Proceedings Article | 10 July 2018 Presentation + Paper

The SOAR Telescope as a node in a time domain followup-network: concepts and plans

Jonathan Elias, Cesar Briceno, Todd Boroson, Mark Bowman, Rolando Cantarutti, Bryan Miller, Stephen Ridgway, Eric Saunders, Rachel Street

Proceedings Volume 10704, 107040B (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2314133

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Observatories, Interfaces, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, Astronomy, Spectrographs, Astronomical telescopes

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Proceedings Article | 10 July 2018 Presentation + Paper

The abstract observatory: an interface for networking telescopes

E. Saunders, M. Bowman, T. Boroson, R. Street

Proceedings Volume 10704, 107040Z (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2312386

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Observatories, Robotics, Astronomical telescopes, Astronomy, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope

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Proceedings Article | 6 July 2018 Presentation + Paper

General-purpose software for managing astronomical observing programs in the LSST era

R. Street, M. Bowman, E. Saunders, T. Boroson

Proceedings Volume 10707, 1070711 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2312293

KEYWORDS: Astronomy, Telescopes, Software development, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, Databases, Liquid crystal on silicon, Planets, Data archive systems, Photometry, Detection and tracking algorithms

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Proceedings Article | 6 August 2014 Paper

Science operations for LCOGT: a global telescope network

T. Boroson, T. Brown, A. Hjelstrom, D. Howell, T. Lister, A. Pickles, W. Rosing, E. Saunders, R. Street, Z. Walker

Proceedings Volume 9149, 91491E (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2054776

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Observatories, Calibration, Imaging systems, Stars, Spectrographs, Astronomy, Optical filters, Image quality, Visibility

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