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

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.

4 pages, 3 figures. To appear in the Proceedings of ADASS XXIV (A. R. Taylor & J. M. Stil, eds.), published by the ASP Conf. Ser