Magellan Director Report

• Personnel

• Observing Statistics

• Instrument Commissioning

• Instrument Development

• Publications

Magellan SAC Meeting, March 16, 2013

Personnel• Programmer Position

• Magellan programmer, Pablo Castro, was terminated in late-March 2012

• A search was organized, and LCO Electronics Engineer Juan Espoz was offered and accepted the position

• He began the transition to this new job in February

Personnel (cont.)• New Telescope Operator

• Long-time Magellan telescope operator Geraldo Valladares resigned effective January 2013 to pursue other interests

• A search was organized in advance of his departure so as to have a new operator ready to replace him

• An offer was made to SOAR Telescope operator Alberto Pastén, who accepted and began working in late-November

Personnel (cont.)• Magellan Site Manager

• Marc Leroy, the Magellan Site Manager, was terminated in January

• We are in the process of redefining this position and searching for a replacement

Observing Statistics:Instrument Usage

2012 Aug 9 – 2013 Feb 8 Instrument UsageIMACS 28%FIRE 16%MIKE 16%FourStar 9%MegaCam 8%LDSS3 7%MagE 6%MMIRS 5%PFS 5%

Observing Statistics: Long-Term Instrument

Usage

Observing Statistics:Downtime

2012 Aug 9 – 2013 Feb 8 Baade Clay

Open 88.6% 88.3%

Lost to Weather 10.2% 10.6%

Lost to Telescope 0.2% 0.4%

Lost to Instrument 0.4% 0.7%

Lost to Computer 0.6% 0.0%

Total Downtime 1.1% 1.1%

Observing Statistics: Long-Term Downtime

Observing Statistics: Instrument Downtime

2012 Aug 9 – 2013 Feb 8

MMIRS 3.9%

IMACS 0.7%

MegaCam 0.6%

MIKE 0.6%

LDSS3 0.3%

FIRE 0.2%

MagE 0.1%

FourStar 0.0%

PFS 0.0%

Instrument CommissioningInstrument First LightPFS* 2009 OctoberMegaCam 2009 OctoberMMIRS 2009 DecemberFIRE 2010 MarchFourStar 2010 DecemberIMACS Mosaic3 (f/4) 2011 OctoberAO (VisAO, Clio2) 2012 December

*P.I. Instrument

MegaCam, MMIRS, FIRE, FourStar have yet to be accepted by the Magellan Council as Facility Instruments

Instrument Development

Instrument First LightLDSS3 detector upgrade 2013AM2FS* 2013BPISCO* ?

What comes next? Will there be a new generation of Magellan instruments?

*P.I. Instrument

Publications

Publications (cont.)

Publications (cont.)

Crabtree 2012

¡Gracias!