The survey operation software system development for Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) on Subaru Telescope
Atsushi Shimono (1), Naoyuki Tamura (1), Naruhisa Takato (2), Naoki, Yasuda (1), Nao Suzuki (1), Craig P. Loomis (3), Robert H. Lupton (3), Yuki, Moritani (1), Kiyoto Yabe (1) ((1) Kavli Institute for the Physics and, Mathematics of the Universe, (2) Subaru Telescope

TL;DR
This paper describes the development and structure of the software system for operating the Prime Focus Spectrograph on the Subaru Telescope, including control, data processing, survey planning, and database management.
Contribution
It provides a comprehensive overview of the software architecture and workflows for PFS survey operations, highlighting database organization and fiber configuration processes.
Findings
Effective software system structure for PFS operation
Integrated database organization for survey data
Streamlined fiber configuration process
Abstract
The Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) is a wide-field, multi-object spectrograph accommodating 2394 fibers to observe the sky at the prime focus of the Subaru telescope. The software system to operate a spectroscopic survey is structured by the four packages: Instrument control software, exposure targeting software, data reduction pipeline, and survey planning and tracking software. In addition, we operate a database system where various information such as properties of target objects, instrument configurations, and observation conditions is stored and is organized via a standardized data model for future references to update survey plans and to scientific researches. In this article, we present an overview of the software system and describe the workflows that need to be performed in the PFS operation, with some highlights on the database that organizes various information from…
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