Ingeniero de sistemas - JPCam

Centro de Astrofísica y Cosmología

Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre, Teruel

 

 

CEFCA (http://www.cefca.es) is the Center for Astrophysics and Cosmology located in Teruel (Spain) which is in charge of the design, construction and scientific exploitation of the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ). The OAJ, particularly designed for carrying out large scale surveys, will consist of two telescopes: the T250, a wide-field 2.5m telescope with a field of view (FoV) of 3 deg diameter (corresponding to 476.4mm), and the T80, an 80cm telescope with a 2 deg FoV. The T250 will have a plate scale of 22.67"/mm. The goal of the T250 and its panoramic camera, JPCam, is to carry out the so called Javalambre PAU (Physics of the Accelerated Universe) Astrophysical Survey, hereafter J-PAS, a photometric all-sky survey of about 8,000 square degrees using 54 narrow band filters of 13.8nm, from about 370 to 920nm,supplemented with two broad band filters. JPCam is a 14-CCD mosaic camera using the new e2v 9.2k-by-9.2k, 10μm pixel, detectors, providing a pixel scale of ~0.23 "/pixel. The instrument’s filter unit will be designed to admit 5 filter trays, each mounting 14 square filters corresponding to the 14 CCDs of the mosaic. Each CCD will view only its corresponding filter avoiding optical cross-talk from their neighbors. The filters will operate close to, but outside, the dewar window in a fast (f/3.6) converging beam. Thus JPCam images will be taken with 14 different J-PAS filters (one on top of each CCD) at any one pointing of the telescope.

Specific Tasks:

Work in close collaboration with those responsible for the main JPCam systems (CAM, FSU and ACT) to closely monitor the different designs and ensure that the whole JPCam system performs as required.
Lead the JPCam Integration WP. The final responsibility of JPCam integration belongs to the JPCam systems engineering.
Participate in the JPCam-T250 I/F WP.
The JPCam systems engineer will have support from the INPE engineering group. This group includes engineering in all required areas (optics, mechanics, electronics/control). Also, for the interface control and design reviews the systems engineer will have the support from AMOS as part of the already contracted "JPCam I/F Management WP".

Duration

The contracted person is required to start as soon as possible. The duration of the contract will take the JPCam project through design, fabrication, integration, test and verification on telescope. Onsky commissioning is foreseen to be completed by the end of 2014 or soon thereafter

Interested person should use reference "JPCam Systems Engineer" attention to:

Lucía Rey
INGENIERÍA Y SERVICIOS AEROESPACIALES, S.A. (INSA)
E-mail: lucia.rey@insa.org