@inproceedings{ec1fa627429a4e1689e5b6f693eb482f,
title = "STARS: A software application for the EBEX autonomous daytime star cameras",
abstract = "The E and B Experiment (EBEX) is a balloon-borne telescope designed to probe polarization signals in the CMB resulting from primordial gravitational waves, gravitational lensing, and Galactic dust emission. EBEX completed an 11 day flight over Antarctica in January 2013 and data analysis is underway. EBEX employs two star cameras to achieve its real-time and post-flight pointing requirements. We wrote a software application called STARS to operate, command, and collect data from each of the star cameras, and to interface them with the main flight computer. We paid special attention to make the software robust against potential in-flight failures. We report on the implementation, testing, and successful in flight performance of STARS.",
keywords = "CMB, ballooning, ight control systems, millimeter-wave telescopes, star trackers",
author = "Daniel Chapman and Joy Didier and Shaul Hanany and Seth Hillbrand and Michele Limon and Amber Miller and Britt Reichborn-Kjennerud and Greg Tucker and Yury Vinokurov",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.1117/12.2057181",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9780819496201",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
booktitle = "Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy III",
address = "United States",
note = "Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy III ; Conference date: 22-06-2014 Through 26-06-2014",
}