Vera C. Rubin Observatory system integration, test, and commissioning: strategy and status

Jacques Sebag; Charles F. Claver; Sandrine J. Thomas; Kevin Reil; Jeffrey Barr; Keith Bechtol; Felipe Daruich; Juan Fabrega; Leanne P. Guy; Patrick Ingraham; Victor Krabbendam; Margaux Lopez; Freddy Munoz; Doug Neill; Wil O'Mullane; Michael Reuter; Austin Roberts; Tiago Ribeiro; Eduardo Serrano; Cristian Silva; Brian Stalder; Roberto Tighe; Bo Xin

doi:10.1117/12.2561675

13 December 2020 Vera C. Rubin Observatory system integration, test, and commissioning: strategy and status

Jacques Sebag, Charles F. Claver, Sandrine J. Thomas, Kevin Reil, Jeffrey Barr, Keith Bechtol, Felipe Daruich, Juan Fabrega, Leanne P. Guy, Patrick Ingraham, Victor Krabbendam, Margaux Lopez, Freddy Munoz, Doug Neill, Wil O'Mullane, Michael Reuter, Austin Roberts, Tiago Ribeiro, Eduardo Serrano, Cristian Silva, Brian Stalder, Roberto Tighe, Bo Xin

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Proceedings Volume 11445, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VIII; 114451U (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561675
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2020, Online Only

Abstract

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a joint NSF and DOE construction project with facilities distributed across multiple sites. These sites include the Summit Facility on Cerro Pachón, Chile; the Base Facility in La Serena, Chile; the Project and Operations Center in Tucson, AZ; the Camera integration and testing laboratories at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, CA; and the data support center based at the National Center for SuperComputing Applications at Urbana-Champaign, IL. The Rubin Observatory construction Project has entered its system integration and testing phase where major subsystem components are coming together and being tested and verified at a system level for the first time. The system integration phase of the Project requires a closely coordinated and organized plan to merge, manage, and be able to adapt the complex set of subsystems and activities across the entire observatory as real effects are discovered. In this paper we present our strategy to successfully complete integration, test and commissioning of the systems making up the Rubin Observatory. We include discussion on (i) our strategy for integration activities and the verification of requirements (ii) a brief summary of construction status at the time of this paper, (iii) early integration activities that are used to mitigate risks including the use of the Rubin Observatory's commissioning camera (ComCam), planning for the integration, testing and verification of the primary science instrument - LSSTCam, and lastly, (v) Science Verification through short concentrated survey-like campaigns. Throughout this paper we identify where key performance metrics are addressed that directly impact the Rubin Observatory's 10{year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) science capabilities - e.g. image quality, telescope dynamics, alert latency, etc...

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Jacques Sebag, Charles F. Claver, Sandrine J. Thomas, Kevin Reil, Jeffrey Barr, Keith Bechtol, Felipe Daruich, Juan Fabrega, Leanne P. Guy, Patrick Ingraham, Victor Krabbendam, Margaux Lopez, Freddy Munoz, Doug Neill, Wil O'Mullane, Michael Reuter, Austin Roberts, Tiago Ribeiro, Eduardo Serrano, Cristian Silva, Brian Stalder, Roberto Tighe, and Bo Xin "Vera C. Rubin Observatory system integration, test, and commissioning: strategy and status", Proc. SPIE 11445, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VIII, 114451U (13 December 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561675

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