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Autonomous observing The Astronomer’s Last Stand

Autonomous observing The Astronomer’s Last Stand. Alasdair Allan School of Physics, University of Exeter, UK Iain Steele Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool JMU, UK Robert White Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM, USA Frederic Hessman Georg-August-Universit ät , G öt tingen, Germany.

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Autonomous observing The Astronomer’s Last Stand

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  1. Autonomous observingThe Astronomer’s Last Stand Alasdair Allan School of Physics, University of Exeter, UK Iain Steele Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool JMU, UK Robert White Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM, USA Frederic Hessman Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany www.estar.org.uk

  2. The eSTAR network ADASS XVII, Sept. 2007

  3. eSTAR in a nutshell ADASS XVII, Sept. 2007

  4. How does it work? CREDIT: Liverpool John Moores University Embedded Agent User Agent UI ADASS XVII, Sept. 2007

  5. Reactive case? Embedded Agent Other Clients UI Event Network Alert Client User Agent ADASS XVII, Sept. 2007

  6. The eSTAR/HTN Protocol Registry User Resource Resource Discovery Phase 0 Scoring Request Confirm Reject Observed Update Fail ADASS XVII, Sept. 2007

  7. Parallel Strands • Two parallel strands • VOEvent standard • HTN and eSTAR standards • VOEvent standard has been designed to • transport timely information concerning transient events • HTN standards has been designed to • allow the recipient of an event message to negotiate for, and obtain, follow-up observations to these reported events from a heterogeneous collection of networked telescopes ADASS XVII, Sept. 2007

  8. The VO Embedded Agent User Agents Gateway Service The eSTAR network CREDIT: Nik Szymanek CREDIT: Liverpool John Moores University Embedded Agent Robonet-1.0 Embedded Agents ADASS XVII, Sept. 2007

  9. Smarter than average? • How well should one bit of software believe other bits of software when they tell it somewhere? • Currently running simulations in Exeter • keeping track of scores from telescopes and whether they actually returned data, i.e. are they “lying” to us? • using this to modify our decision making process in the future, hopefully weighting things towards the telescopes that don’t “lie” about how well they can perform observations • Emerging social conventions? ADASS XVII, Sept. 2007

  10. CREDIT: The eSTAR Project CREDIT: The eSTAR Project CREDIT: AstroGrid Project HTN Registry Event Network User interfaces? Event Broker User Agent Embedded Agent The Grid ADASS XVII, Sept. 2007

  11. Real-time status ADASS XVII, Sept. 2007

  12. The Web Google Sky Event Publisher Alert Client Event Network Embedded Web Server ADASS XVII, Sept. 2007

  13. Doing real science ADASS XVII, Sept. 2007

  14. PLANET/Robonet-1.0 Campaign • First look observations of OGLE-EWS events • first look for MOA will be done next season • Continuous monitoring of ongoing OGLE and MOA events • maximise planet discovery rate • Rapid response to possible anomalies in real-time • trigger override observations • event notification • Closed-loop system ADASS XVII, Sept. 2007

  15. CREDIT: F. Abe, A. Gilmore, F. Gunn, J. Hearnshaw, Y. Itow, Y. Muraki, Y. Nishimura, T. Sako, T. Sekiguchi Event Publisher First look observations CREDIT: Liverpool John Moores University CREDIT: Allyson Polak, University of Virginia Embedded Agent OGLE EWS Event Publisher User Agent Event Network Alert Client ADASS XVII, Sept. 2007

  16. Ongoing monitoring Event Publishers Event Network Robonet-1.0 Prioritisation Service User Agent Embedded Agents ADASS XVII, Sept. 2007

  17. Anomaly hunting • Real time data reduction • Real time data analysis • See “An anomaly detector with immediate feedback to hunt for planets of Earth mass and below by microlensing”, 2007, MNRAS, M. Dominik, N. J. Rattenbury, A. Allan, S. Mao, D. M. Bramich, M. J. Burgdorf, E. Kerins, Y. Tsapras, Ł. Wyrzykowski, in press • Reactive scheduling ADASS XVII, Sept. 2007

  18. Event Network Closing the loop DB Robonet-1.0 User Agent Embedded Agents • Allows real-time analysis of incoming micro-lensing data from PLANET, OGLE, MOA, MicroFUN and Robonet-1.0 • looks for deviations that might be plantetary anomalies • asks for more data if it’s not sure • triggers target of opportunity if it is sure ADASS XVII, Sept. 2007

  19. …and finally? ADASS XVII, Sept. 2007

  20. Conclusions • Autonomous observing • IVOA standard VOEvent messaging • HTN standard RTML messaging • eSTAR represents a “turn-key” system • Operating in three modes • event driven • long term monitoring • reactive follow-up • See http://www.estar.org.uk/ for more information ADASS XVII, Sept. 2007

  21. The End ADASS XVII, Sept. 2007

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