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25 July 2024 The SOXS instrument control software approaching the PAE
Davide Ricci, Bernardo Salasnich, Andrea Baruffolo, Jani Achrén, Matteo Aliverti, José A. Araiza-Durán, Iair Arcavi, Laura Asquini, Federico Battaini, Sagi Ben-Ami, Alex Bichkovsky, Anna Brucalassi, Rachel Bruch, Lorenzo Cabona, Sergio Campana, Giulio Capasso, Enrico Cappellaro, Riccardo Claudi, Mirko Colapietro, Rosario Cosentino, Francesco D'Alessio, Paolo D'Avanzo, Sergio D'Orsi, Massimo Della Valle, Rosario Di Benedetto, Simone Di Filippo, Avishay Gal-Yam, Matteo Genoni, Marcos Hernandez Díaz, Ofir Hershko, Jari Kotilainen, Hanindyo Kuncarayakti, Marco Landoni, Gianluca Li Causi, Laurent Marty, Seppo Mattila, Matteo Munari, Luca Oggioni, Hector Pérez Ventura, Giorgio Pariani, Giuliano Pignata, Kalyan Radhakrishnan, Stephen Smartt, Michael Rappaport, Marco Riva, Adam Rubin, Salvatore Savarese, Pietro Schipani, Salvatore Scuderi, Maximilian Stritzinger, Fabrizio Vitali, David Young, Ricardo Zanmar Sanchez
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Abstract
The Instrument Control Software of SOXS (Son Of X-Shooter), the forthcoming spectrograph for the ESO New Technology Telescope at the La Silla Observatory, has reached a mature state of development and is approaching the crucial Preliminary Acceptance in Europe phase. Now that all the subsystems have been integrated in the laboratories of the Padova Astronomical Observatory, the team operates for testing purposes with the whole instrument at both engineering and scientific level. These activities will make use of a set of software peculiarities that will be discussed in this contribution. In particular, we focus on the synoptic panel, the co-rotator system special device, on the Active Flexure Compensation system which controls two separate piezo tip-tilt devices.
(2024) Published by SPIE. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.
Davide Ricci, Bernardo Salasnich, Andrea Baruffolo, Jani Achrén, Matteo Aliverti, José A. Araiza-Durán, Iair Arcavi, Laura Asquini, Federico Battaini, Sagi Ben-Ami, Alex Bichkovsky, Anna Brucalassi, Rachel Bruch, Lorenzo Cabona, Sergio Campana, Giulio Capasso, Enrico Cappellaro, Riccardo Claudi, Mirko Colapietro, Rosario Cosentino, Francesco D'Alessio, Paolo D'Avanzo, Sergio D'Orsi, Massimo Della Valle, Rosario Di Benedetto, Simone Di Filippo, Avishay Gal-Yam, Matteo Genoni, Marcos Hernandez Díaz, Ofir Hershko, Jari Kotilainen, Hanindyo Kuncarayakti, Marco Landoni, Gianluca Li Causi, Laurent Marty, Seppo Mattila, Matteo Munari, Luca Oggioni, Hector Pérez Ventura, Giorgio Pariani, Giuliano Pignata, Kalyan Radhakrishnan, Stephen Smartt, Michael Rappaport, Marco Riva, Adam Rubin, Salvatore Savarese, Pietro Schipani, Salvatore Scuderi, Maximilian Stritzinger, Fabrizio Vitali, David Young, and Ricardo Zanmar Sanchez "The SOXS instrument control software approaching the PAE", Proc. SPIE 13101, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VIII, 131012G (25 July 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3018278
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KEYWORDS
Equipment

Control software

Astronomy

Spectrographs

Software development

Telescopes

Interfaces

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