SOUL at LBT: commissioning results, science and future

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Main Authors: Pinna, Enrico, Rossi, Fabio, Agapito, Guido, Puglisi, Alfio, Plantet, Cédric, Ghose, Essna, Bec, Matthieu, Bonaglia, Marco, Briguglio, Runa, Brusa, Guido, Carbonaro, Luca, Cavallaro, Alessandro, Christou, Julian, Durney, Olivier, Ertel, Steve, Esposito, Simone, Grani, Paolo, Guerra, Juan Carlos, Hinz, Philip, Lefebvre, Michael, Mazzoni, Tommaso, Mechtley, Brandon, Miller, Douglas L., Montoya, Manny, Power, Jennifer, Rothberg, Barry, Taylor, Gregory, Vaz, Amali, Xompero, Marco, Zhang, Xianyu
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author Pinna, Enrico
Rossi, Fabio
Agapito, Guido
Puglisi, Alfio
Plantet, Cédric
Ghose, Essna
Bec, Matthieu
Bonaglia, Marco
Briguglio, Runa
Brusa, Guido
Carbonaro, Luca
Cavallaro, Alessandro
Christou, Julian
Durney, Olivier
Ertel, Steve
Esposito, Simone
Grani, Paolo
Guerra, Juan Carlos
Hinz, Philip
Lefebvre, Michael
Mazzoni, Tommaso
Mechtley, Brandon
Miller, Douglas L.
Montoya, Manny
Power, Jennifer
Rothberg, Barry
Taylor, Gregory
Vaz, Amali
Xompero, Marco
Zhang, Xianyu
author_facet Pinna, Enrico
Rossi, Fabio
Agapito, Guido
Puglisi, Alfio
Plantet, Cédric
Ghose, Essna
Bec, Matthieu
Bonaglia, Marco
Briguglio, Runa
Brusa, Guido
Carbonaro, Luca
Cavallaro, Alessandro
Christou, Julian
Durney, Olivier
Ertel, Steve
Esposito, Simone
Grani, Paolo
Guerra, Juan Carlos
Hinz, Philip
Lefebvre, Michael
Mazzoni, Tommaso
Mechtley, Brandon
Miller, Douglas L.
Montoya, Manny
Power, Jennifer
Rothberg, Barry
Taylor, Gregory
Vaz, Amali
Xompero, Marco
Zhang, Xianyu
contents The SOUL systems at the Large Bincoular Telescope can be seen such as precursor for the ELT SCAO systems, combining together key technologies such as EMCCD, Pyramid WFS and adaptive telescopes. After the first light of the first upgraded system on September 2018, going through COVID and technical stops, we now have all the 4 systems working on-sky. Here, we report about some key control improvements and the system performance characterized during the commissioning. The upgrade allows us to correct more modes (500) in the bright end and increases the sky coverage providing SR(K)>20% with reference stars G$_{RP}$<17, opening to extragalcatic targets with NGS systems. Finally, we review the first astrophysical results, looking forward to the next generation instruments (SHARK-NIR, SHARK-Vis and iLocater), to be fed by the SOUL AO correction.
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spellingShingle SOUL at LBT: commissioning results, science and future
Pinna, Enrico
Rossi, Fabio
Agapito, Guido
Puglisi, Alfio
Plantet, Cédric
Ghose, Essna
Bec, Matthieu
Bonaglia, Marco
Briguglio, Runa
Brusa, Guido
Carbonaro, Luca
Cavallaro, Alessandro
Christou, Julian
Durney, Olivier
Ertel, Steve
Esposito, Simone
Grani, Paolo
Guerra, Juan Carlos
Hinz, Philip
Lefebvre, Michael
Mazzoni, Tommaso
Mechtley, Brandon
Miller, Douglas L.
Montoya, Manny
Power, Jennifer
Rothberg, Barry
Taylor, Gregory
Vaz, Amali
Xompero, Marco
Zhang, Xianyu
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
The SOUL systems at the Large Bincoular Telescope can be seen such as precursor for the ELT SCAO systems, combining together key technologies such as EMCCD, Pyramid WFS and adaptive telescopes. After the first light of the first upgraded system on September 2018, going through COVID and technical stops, we now have all the 4 systems working on-sky. Here, we report about some key control improvements and the system performance characterized during the commissioning. The upgrade allows us to correct more modes (500) in the bright end and increases the sky coverage providing SR(K)>20% with reference stars G$_{RP}$<17, opening to extragalcatic targets with NGS systems. Finally, we review the first astrophysical results, looking forward to the next generation instruments (SHARK-NIR, SHARK-Vis and iLocater), to be fed by the SOUL AO correction.
title SOUL at LBT: commissioning results, science and future
topic Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.14447