Managing Hardware Configurations and Data Products for the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment

TL;DR

This paper presents a database-driven software system designed to manage the complex hardware configurations and large data volumes of the CHIME radio telescope, supporting its scientific goals.

Contribution

It introduces a novel software solution for managing hardware configurations and data records in large-scale radio astronomy experiments.

Findings

Effective management of hardware configurations and data records.

Facilitates accurate tracking and retrieval of experimental data.

Supports the operational success of the CHIME project.

Abstract

The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) is an ambitious new radio telescope project for measuring cosmic expansion and investigating dark energy. Keeping good records of both physical configuration of its 1280 antennas and their analogue signal chains as well as the ~100 TB of data produced daily from its correlator will be essential to the success of CHIME. In these proceedings we describe the database-driven software we have developed to manage this complexity.