Magellan Director Report Personnel Observing Statistics Instrument Commissioning Instrument Development Fast Internet Connection Publications (A. Uomoto) March 17, 2012, Carnegie Observatories

Personnel New Telescope Operator Magellan telescope operator Sergio Vera unexpectedly resigned with scant notice in late-August He was hired by ESO to become a VLT operator A search was hurriedly organized and several good applications were received An offer was made to GMT site testing equipment operator Gabriel Prieto, who accepted and began working in October

Personnel (cont.) Instrumentation Support Position The new Instrumentation Support Engineer/Scientist position was advertised and three excellent candidates were identified Interviews were carried out and an offer was made to Yuri Beletsky, who accepted and started working for Magellan in January From , Beletsky was an ESO Support Astronomer at Paranal with considerable experience in supporting a wide variety of optical and IR instrumentation This is a 100% support position

Personnel (cont.) El Pino / Mountain Personnel In July 2011, Roberto Bermúdez replaced Emma Molina as the Administrative Assistant to the LCO Director in La Serena Sergio Véliz joined the LCO Mountain staff in June 2011 to assist with administrative work (lodging, food services, travel, and warehouse supervision)

Observing Statistics: Instrument Usage 2011 Mar 1 – 2012 Feb 29Instrument Usage IMACS23% FIRE19% MIKE15% FourStar8% MagE8% PFS7% MMIRS7% MegaCam6% LDSS36% MIKE fibers1%

Observing Statistics: Long-Term Instrument Usage

Observing Statistics: Downtime 2011 Mar 1 – 2012 Feb 29BaadeClay Open81.2%83.2% Lost to Weather17.7%15.6% Lost to Telescope0.7%0.4% Lost to Instrument0.4%0.5% Lost to Computer0.4%0.3% Total Downtime1.5%1.2%

Observing Statistics: Long-Term Downtime

Observing Statistics: Instrument Downtime

Instrument Commissioning InstrumentFirst Light PFS * 2009 October MegaCam2009 October MMIRS2009 December FIRE2010 March FourStar2010 December IMACS Mosaic3 (f/4)2011 October * P.I. Instrument MegaCam, MMIRS, FIRE, FourStar have yet to be accepted by the Magellan Council as Facility Instruments

Instrument Development InstrumentFirst Light AO (VisAO, Clio2)2012B AO (BLINC MIRAC4)? M2FS2012B? PISCO2013B? What comes next? Will there be a new generation of Magellan instruments?

Fast Internet Connection As of late-February, CTIO had implemented a new 620 mbs connection to Internet2 Commodity traffic will use 30 mbs; 590 mbs reserved for research network “In principle”, LCO bandwidth will be limited to 100 mbs

Fast Internet Connection (cont.) Traffic destined to a network that is a member of the Internet2 will go out over the 100 mbs route – all else will go out via the commodity network In order to see the 100 mbs, the application needs to use the “UDF” protocol The most common way is to use “bbFTP” Observers are encouraged to use this new capability for transferring data, etc. Note: Downloading of movies, music, etc. is still considered unacceptable use of the network…

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