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Magellan Telescope Instruments Organization: Embracing the Future

Explore the challenge faced by Magellan Observatory in managing its diverse array of instruments and accommodating new ones. Learn about proposed solutions and steps to optimize instrument support and utilization.

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Magellan Telescope Instruments Organization: Embracing the Future

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  1. Magellan Telescope Instruments: Organizing the Future

  2. The Problem • Six facility instruments and one P.I. instrumet currently in use: IMACS, PANIC, MagIC, LDSS3, MIKE, MIKE fibers, POETS (P.I.) • Lots of instruments and two new foci coming: MagE, PFS (P.I.), FIRE, PISCO (P.I.), f/5, FourStar, Megacam (f/5), MMIRS (f/5), AO, MIRAC… • Not enough places to put them, or staff to support them all • Operations & Budget Committee of the Magellan Council recommendations (not yet approved, but likely to be implemented): • Total of 6 ports (3 on each telescope) supported • Number of instruments available for use be limited to at most 5 facility instruments and 1 probationary or P.I. instrument at any time • Reserve 1 Nasmyth port for probationary or P.I. instruments

  3. What are the Options? • Retire some of the present instruments: e.g., retire PANIC when FourStar is ready • Support some instruments in campaign mode: e.g., f/5 instruments • Limit the suite of instruments supported each semester to 6 • ???

  4. How to Do It? • Finish commissioning present instruments: IMAC & MIKE nearly there, LDSS3 and MagIC close, PANIC & MIKE fibers ?? • Make sure that all instruments currently being built follow the commissioning procedures for facility and P.I. instruments: This will give us a much better idea of the support requirements of each instrument • Come up with a plan which takes into account support requirements and scientific priorities This is a job for the SAC!

  5. An Interesting Table * Support Effort represents the mean of independent estimates made by M. Phillips, F. Perez, M. Roth, D. Osip, M. Navarrete, E. Cerda * Thanks to the Operations & Budget Committee of the Council

  6. What are the First Steps? • Update the “Magellan Instrument Procedures and Policies” (formerly “Magellan Facility Instrument Policy”) • This document has been modified by A. Uomoto to: • Include User instruments (a.k.a. P.I. instruments) • Change relationship between instrument builders and observatory staff from “vendor-customer” to one more akin to “collaborators” • Get the teams currently building Magellan instruments to follow all of the steps in the policy

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