Computer Science – Performance
Scientific paper
Feb 2003
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003spie.4852..172u&link_type=abstract
Interferometry in Space. Edited by Shao, Michael. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 4852, pp. 172-183 (2003).
Computer Science
Performance
Scientific paper
This paper describes the science scheduling and operation of the Space Interferometry Mission (SIM) as a science instrument. The SIM Science Team has defined a set of science programs to be observed with SIM. The scheduling and operation of SIM, and modeling of the expected performance, differs significantly from other astrometric or imaging space-based telescopes. A timeline of observations is developed using a scheduling unit called a 'tile' - a set of related science and reference star observations made while the instrument is inertially pointed. Global astrometry, for measuring stellar distances and velocities, is performed by observing multiple overlapping tiles covering the whole sky. Most observing program require many short observations over the life of the mission, which poses interesting challenges for scheduling tools in developing the science timeline. Development of these tools will be done by the Interferometry Science Center at Caltech. Planning tools will allow users to perform trades of the expected science performance, for instance, by varying the number of observations of a target against the time spent on an individual observation. The search for planets will require careful optimization of the selection of target and reference stars in a tile, and their observing sequence, to minimize instrumental systematic errors which may be a function of direction on the sky or due to thermally-induced drifts in the instrument.
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