The VST auxiliary units: a status report before their commissioning in Paranal

Jacopo Farinato; Pietro Schipani; Carmelo Arcidiacono; Massimo Capaccioli; Alessandro Da Ronco; Giacinto De Paris; Sergio D'Orsi; Luigi Ferragina; Davide Fierro; Demetrio Magrin; Laurent Marty; Francesco Perina; Roberto Ragazzoni; Stefano Recchia; Pierfrancesco Rossettini; Gabriele Umbriaco; Raffaele Tomelleri

doi:10.1117/12.857984

6 August 2010 The VST auxiliary units: a status report before their commissioning in Paranal

Jacopo Farinato, Pietro Schipani, Carmelo Arcidiacono, Massimo Capaccioli, Alessandro Da Ronco, Giacinto De Paris, Sergio D'Orsi, Luigi Ferragina, Davide Fierro, Demetrio Magrin, Laurent Marty, Francesco Perina, Roberto Ragazzoni, Stefano Recchia, Pierfrancesco Rossettini, Gabriele Umbriaco, Raffaele Tomelleri

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Proceedings Volume 7733, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes III; 773359 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857984
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The VST telescope is going to be commissioned in Paranal, together with its main sub-systems, such as the Image Analysis and Auto-Guiding system. A preliminary work of fine tuning of each sub-system has been performed in Italy before their shipping to Paranal, where they are waiting for the telescope AIV to be completed in a way to start the final commissioning of the overall system. Each unit has been extensively characterized and tested, with particular care to the Active Optics Shack-Hartmann sensor and to the Auto-Guiding arm. We describe here the phases concerning the integration and test of all the VST Auxiliary Units performed in Italy before their shipping to Paranal.

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Jacopo Farinato, Pietro Schipani, Carmelo Arcidiacono, Massimo Capaccioli, Alessandro Da Ronco, Giacinto De Paris, Sergio D'Orsi, Luigi Ferragina, Davide Fierro, Demetrio Magrin, Laurent Marty, Francesco Perina, Roberto Ragazzoni, Stefano Recchia, Pierfrancesco Rossettini, Gabriele Umbriaco, and Raffaele Tomelleri "The VST auxiliary units: a status report before their commissioning in Paranal", Proc. SPIE 7733, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes III, 773359 (6 August 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857984

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