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Tomás Staig

at ALMA Observatory

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Proceedings Article | 25 July 2024 Presentation + Paper

ALMA software group: transitioning to hybrid working model

Ruben Soto, Jonathan Antognini, Tomas Staig, Johnny Reveco, Jorge Ibsen

Proceedings Volume 13098, 130980S (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3018409

KEYWORDS: Observatories, Data processing, Data acquisition, Engineering, Software development, Organization management, COVID 19, Software engineering, Performance modeling, Lead

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Proceedings Article | 25 August 2022 Poster + Paper

Joint ALMA Observatory data science exploration on the cloud

Sergio Pavez, Ignacio Toledo, Tomas Staig, Nicolás Ovando, Gastón Vélez, Jorge Ibsen, Jorge Sierra, Agustin Grangetto

Proceedings Volume 12186, 121861Q (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630375

KEYWORDS: Clouds, Observatories, Data processing

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Proceedings Article | 6 July 2018 Presentation + Paper

Introducing hardware in the loop and model based simulation concepts in the ALMA observatory for software testing

Tzu-Chiang Shen, Ruben Soto, Alejandro Saez, Jorge Avarias, Norman Saez, Tomas Staig, Jorge Sepulveda, Jorge Castillo, Rodrigo Amestica, Jorge Ibsen, Stuartt Corder

Proceedings Volume 10707, 107070C (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2313688

KEYWORDS: Antennas, Optical correlators, Observatories, Computing systems, Signal processing, Hardware testing, Current controlled current source, Adaptive optics, Electronics, Control systems

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Proceedings Article | 9 August 2016 Paper

Implementation and performance of the metrology system for the multi-object optical and near-infrared spectrograph MOONS

Holger Drass, Leonardo Vanzi, Miguel Torres-Torriti, Rolando Dünner , Tzu-Chiang Shen, Francisco Belmar, Lousie Dauvin, Tomás Staig, Jonathan Antognini, Mauricio Flores, Yerko Luco, Clémentine Béchet, David Boettger, Steven Beard, David Montgomery, Stephen Watson, Alexandre Cabral, Mahmoud Hayati, Manuel Abreu, Phil Rees, Michele Cirasuolo, William Taylor, Alasdair Fairley

Proceedings Volume 9908, 99088E (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232654

KEYWORDS: Metrology, Spectrographs, Cameras, Astronomical imaging, Time metrology, Calibration, Electroluminescent displays, Target detection, Staring arrays, Telescopes

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Proceedings Article | 8 August 2016 Paper

Building a world-wide open source community around a software framework: progress, dos, and don'ts

Jorge Ibsen, Jonathan Antognini, Jorge Avarias, Alessandro Caproni, Matthias Fuessling, Guillermo Gimenez, Khushbu Verma, Matias Mora, Joseph Schwarz, Tomás Staig

Proceedings Volume 9913, 99131D (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232049

KEYWORDS: Software development, Software development, Observatories, Atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes, Software frameworks, Telescopes, Control systems, Prototyping, Standards development, Computer architecture, Astronomy

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As we all know too well, building up a collaborative community around a software infrastructure is not easy. Besides recruiting enthusiasts to work as part of it, mostly for free, to succeed you also need to overcome a number of technical, sociological, and, to our surprise, some political hurdles. The ALMA Common Software (ACS) was developed at ESO and partner institutions over the course of more than 10 years. While it was mainly intended for the ALMA Observatory, it was early on thought as a generic distributed control framework. ACS has been periodically released to the public through an LGPL license, which encouraged around a dozen non-ALMA institutions to make use of ACS for both industrial and educational applications. In recent years, the Cherenkov Telescope Array and the LLAMA Observatory have also decided to adopt the framework for their own control systems. The aim of the “ACS Community” is to support independent initiatives in making use of the ACS framework and to further contribute to its development. The Community provides access to a growing network of volunteers eager to develop ACS in areas that are not necessarily in ALMA's interests, and/or were not within the original system scope. Current examples are: support for additional OS platforms, extension of supported hardware interfaces, a public code repository and a build farm. The ACS Community makes use of existing collaborations with Chilean and Brazilian universities, reaching out to promising engineers in the making. At the same time, projects actively using ACS have committed valuable resources to assist the Community's work. Well established training programs like the ACS Workshops are also being continued through the Community's work. This paper aims to give a detailed account of the ongoing (second) journey towards establishing a world-wide open source collaboration around ACS. The ACS Community is growing into a horizontal partnership across a decentralized and diversified group of actors, and we are excited about its technical and human potential.

Proceedings Article | 26 July 2016 Paper

The evolution of the simulation environment in the ALMA Observatory

Tzu-Chiang Shen, Ruben Soto, Norman Saez, Gaston Velez, Tomas Staig, Jorge Sepulveda, Alejandro Saez, Nicolas Ovando, Jorge Ibsen

Proceedings Volume 9913, 99130D (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232366

KEYWORDS: Observatories, Antennas, Software development, Hardware testing, Control systems, Optical correlators, Computer simulations, Current controlled current source, Solar thermal energy, Electronics

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