Seamless Distributed Observing with eSTAR

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Oct 2007

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Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XVI ASP Conference Series, Vol. 376, proceedings of the conference held 15-18 Oc

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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In the last few years the ubiquitous availability of high bandwidth networks has changed the way both robotic and non-robotic telescopes operate. Single isolated telescopes are being integrated into expanding ``smart'' telescope networks that can span continents and respond to transient events in seconds. This development has led to a renaissance in the science of time-domain astrophysics, which is rapidly changing the way astronomers work. Using the emerging field of intelligent agent architectures to provide crucial decision making in software, we have built a distributed system that allows users to schedule observations seamlessly over a peer-to-peer network of geographically widely separated, heterogeneous telescopes. We present the current operations paradigm of the eSTAR (http://www.estar.org.uk/) network and explain how our recent work on event driven observing now provides a seamless cradle-to-grave system for autonomous observations of transient events.

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