2–3 Feb 2023
Roma Monte Mario
Europe/Rome timezone

The ASTRI Mini-Array on-site infrastructure startup system, monitoring collectors and the Telescope AIV software

3 Feb 2023, 11:25
25m
Roma Monte Mario

Roma Monte Mario

Speaker

Gino Tosti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

Description

The ASTRI Mini-Array, consisting of nine Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes of the 4-m
class, is an international project led by INAF. The first telescope of the array was installed at the
Teide Observatory on Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, the second half of 2022. All needed site
infrastructures, to host the telescope and the other eight that will arrive soon, have been built and
accepted.
Here we report about the software that has been developed to collect monitoring points from
the various infrastructure subsystems (Power, Networking, Computers, Time distribution system,
CCTV cameras, Weather Stations, and Telescope Service Cabinets) and to support the AIV phase
and the maintenance of each telescope. Finally, an on-site startup system, to switch-on and monitor
the critical systems, has also been developed.

Primary authors

Gino Tosti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)) Pietro Giuseppe Bruno (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

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