Commissioning Shift Information

Instructions and useful links for the LST Commissioning Shift Leaders and Commissioning Shifters.

Emergency Phone Numbers

If possible save these numbers on your private phone before traveling to La Palma. To dial any external number from the Commissioning Container you need to dial (0) first. From a cell phone do not dial the (0).

Public Emergency	(0) 112
Residencia Reception (day time)	(0) +34 922 405 500 (ORM internal: 2500)
Residencia Night Porter (night time)	(0) +34 609 554 576
LST Commissioning Shift Leader	(0) +34 676 649 025
LST Telescope Manager: Patricia Márquez	(0) +34 620 413 156
LST Commissioning Container	(0) +34 922 405 556 (ORM internal: 2556)
MAGIC Control Room	(0) +34 922 405 678, (0) +34 922 405 679 (ORM internal: 2678, 2679)
MAGIC Shift Leader	(0) +34 629 160 816

Full list of EMERGENCY CONTACTS ORM

More contacts can be found on the Contact Wiki Page.

Preparation Before Shift

Contact the Safety Contact Person

Each LST member institute has a Safety Contact Person (SCP) as the link between the institution and its members and the safety company hired by the LST Collaboration. A list can be found in the basic safety document and here:

Institute	SCP
CIEMAT	Carlos Diaz
CPPM	Dirk Hoffmann
CROATIA	Saša Mićanović
CTAO	Paolo Calisse
CZECHIA	Dušan Mandát
DORTMUND	Matthias Domke
GENEVA	Domenico della Volpe
HAMBURG	Martin Tluczykont
IAA-CSIC	Ivan Agudo
IAC	Javier Herrera
IFAE	Oscar Blanch
INAF	Alice Donini
INFN	Elisa Prandini, Mosè Mariotti
JAPAN	Daniel Mazin
LAPP	Armand Fiasson
LODZ	Julian Sitarek
MPP	Diana Werner
SOFIA	Petar Temnikov
UB	Marc Ribó, Begoña Castillejos
UCM	Jose Miguel Miranda
UJA	Josep Martí
WÜRZBURG	Daniela Dorner

Send notification and subscribe to email list

You must inform the safety committee (lst-safety@cta-observatory.org) of your intentions so that your trip can be included in the travel schedule at the LST web site in La Palma. Include the following information:

Name, email, institution
Purpose of your travel
Expected dates
Accommodation (Town name or ORM)
Phone number (How to reach you in case of emergency like fire, evacuation, etc)
Contact at home for emergencies

You must join the mailing list lst-onsite@cta-observatory.org. Useful information about site and working conditions is regularly shared through this list. You are in fact encouraged to use to contact your colleagues on site. The members of this mailing list and a link to subscribe can be found here.

Read the Documentation

• Read the Safety Document and the other relevant documents on the LST Safety Website. Shift Leaders should read all documents to be familiar with the working procedures of all subsystems. Shifters should at least read the drive container, IT container and reference laser documents.
• Read the Commissioning Manual and find resources important for the operations on the Operations Website, some special instructions can be found in the Special Instructions for Shifters.
• Check the Onsite Work Schedule for works on site and who is on shift.
• Check the Incidents Page to understand the more important recent problems.
• Read the recent entries in the ELOGs to understand the day-by-day activities on site.

ORM Booking

During your shift you must book a room at the ORM Residencia. Fill the form here. Where it asks you for the telescope pick "LST". Unless your institute has an account at the ORM you need to select to pay privately, also use this option if you are not sure. The form of payment can be changed on site. You might want to put in the comments you want a room in the annex apartments which are a bit cheaper, see the current rates. If you say nothing, they put you in the main building.

You can book your meals in the cafeteria through this form.

Shift Information

Shift Leader Tasks

• Fill the Commissioning ELOG every day, make sure to select the appropriate Type (Report), Category (Operation or Observation), System (LST1) and select Shift Summary. This way, the summary is sent to lst-onsite once you submit at the end of the night.
• Fill the Startup and Shutdown Checklists in the ELOG.
• Fill the work hour online sheet and make sure all shifters fill if every day.
• Send detailed weekly until Monday, 12:00 CET (noon). Report to lst-onsite with pictures and description of operations, events and problems.
• Report in the Commissioning meeting, Mondays 9:00 CET (8:00 La Palma time), an executive summary of the weekly report.
• Coordinate activities on-site, check the Schedule and Travel Website frequently. Report any activities or people on site that are not listed, and activities that are scheduled but not done.
• Check for the overall safety in the telescope area.
• Make sure the Incidents Page is kept up to date.
• Report incidents to the commissioning whatsapp group.

Commissioning Plans and Shift Schedule 2023

The overall commissioning plan can be found in the first sheet of the LST Commissioning Schedule.

Policy for Camera tests and remote help

For camera tests and to request remote help from the camera experts, there are special policy how to schedule them. The Shift leader should try to enforce them, they are to be followed except in emergency cases which will be coordinated by Camera Coordinator and Deputy Coordinator (Carlos Delgado & Takayuki Saito). Formally, the policies are the following:

• FOR REGULAR DATATAKING
  • During datataking, when shifters request help from the camera expert on-call through the whatsapp group "Lst1CamOnCall", the camera expert should take full control of the camera remotely, solve the problem, and return the control to the shifters only after it has been solved.
  • Camera expert on-call can, and should, rely on camera subsystems experts if needed to solve the issue.
  • In other words, expert on call should not ask shifters to perform any action that can be done remotely.

• FOR CAMERA TESTS BY EXPERTS
  • Camera tests should be performed, if possible, during day time on fixed time slots from 14:00 to 19:00 UTC for tests by Europeans, and from 9:00 to 13:00 UTC for tests by Japanese experts.
  • Only one slot can be used per day.
  • All requests for slots for tests must be planned in advance and a written test procedure has to be provided in order to identify the required resources, as well as a proposed date. This information has to be provided with at least 24 hours before the proposed date to Carlos Delgado, Takayuki Saito and Oscar Blanch.
  • Only tests appearing in the camera tests schedule are allowed to be carried out.
  • The shift leader has to reject any camera test that has not been scheduled by Carlos Delgado, Takayuki Saito or Oscar Blanch.
  • After any camera test, the shifters must perform a DRS4 pedestal run following the commissioning manual to verify the proper function of the camera'.
  • In other words, the shift leader has to reject any camera test that has not been scheduled, and the tests must leave the system clean and ready.

Alarms

Alarms are sent to lst1.c.leader@gmail.com which is installed on the shift leader phone.

Startup and Shutdwon Checklists

• Startup Checklist
• Shutdown Checklist

Monitoring

Publicly available monitoring:

• MAGIC Weather
• Camera: Temperature/Pressure
• Camera: modules
• Camera: pixels

Local monitoring running on mon-right monitors of the commissioning container:

• Drive: Open the Drive Monitoring GUI using the link on the desktop of the right monitoring screen.
• Flywheel: https://10.1.200.1/webvisu/webvisu.htm
• IT: https://10.1.200.5/webvisu/webvisu.htm
• Event display: Open the Event Display using the link on the desktop of the left monitoring screen.

Data-taking procedures

• General instructions for Data-taking with CaCo
• Detailed instructions for CaCo
• Detailed instructions for DAQ

Screen Layout Commissioning Container

Useful information and rules inside the Commissioning Container

• The password for the Wifi inside the Commissioning Container is "bigtelescope".
• To use the printer, connect to it over Wifi. Spare paper can be found in the cabinet with office material. If the paper is almost empty, please inform Patricia.
• Also, inform Patricia if batteries and other material are close to empty (so before things are completely gone).
• You are allowed to eat in the Commissioning Container, but you must take high care to not soil the floor or tables. Clean up after yourself to avoid attracting mice.
• Separate trash in the different bins and always keep them closed. If the bags are full, close the full bags and keep them inside the Commissioning Container. A company comes weekly to take them away. Replace the bag inside the bin, new ones can be found in cabinet 01.

Contacts

Important phone numbers can be found on a dedicated page.

Commissioning Responsibles

Commissioning Coordinator	Daniel Mazin (mazin@icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp)
Safety Coordinator	Martin Will (mwill@mppmu.mpg.de)
Operations Coordinator	Alessio Berti (alessioberti90@gmail.com)

Sub-system contacts

Camera	Takayuki Saito (tysaito2008@gmail.com), Daniel Kerszberg (dkerszberg@ifae.es)
Drive	Armand Fiasson (armand.fiasson@lapp.in2p3.fr), Inocencio Monteiro (monteiro@lapp.in2p3.fr)
Optics	Koji Noda (knoda@icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp), Ladislav Chytka (ladislav.chytka@upol.cz)
Auxiliary Systems	Armand Fiasson (armand.fiasson@lapp.in2p3.fr), David Sanchez (david.sanchez@lapp.in2p3.fr)
Energy Storage	Koji Noda (knoda@icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp), Daniel Mazin (mazin@icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp)
On-site IT Center	Daniela Hadasch (hadasch@icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp), IT admins (admin-ctan@cta-observatory.org)