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 [1] and here:
Institute | SCP |
---|---|
Bulgaria | Petar Temnikov |
CBPF | Ulisses Barres |
CIEMAT | Carlos Diaz |
CPPM | Dirk Hoffmann |
CROATIA | Saša Mićanović |
CTAO | Paolo Calisse |
CZECHIA | Dušan Mandát |
DESY | Markus Garczarczyk |
DORTMUND | Matthias Domke |
GENEVA | Domenico della Volpe |
HAMBURG | Martin Tluczykont |
IAA-CSIC | Ivan Agudo |
IAC | Javier Herrera |
IEEC | Eva Notario |
IFAE | Abelardo Moralejo |
INAF | Alice Donini |
INFN | Elisa Prandini, Mosè Mariotti |
JAPAN | Daniel Mazin |
LAPP | Armand Fiasson |
LODZ | Julian Sitarek |
MPP | Diana Werner |
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.
- Report in the Commissioning meeting, Mondays 9:00 CET (8:00 La Palma time) in winter time, Mondays 10 CEST (9:00 La Palma time) in summer time, an executive summary of the weekly report.
- Check for the overall safety in the telescope area.
- 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.
Alarms
Alarms are sent to lst1.c.leader@gmail.com which is installed on the shift leader phone.
Startup and Shutdwon Checklists
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
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) |