1. Development status of the SOXS instrument control software
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Sagi Ben-Ami, Jari Kotilainen, Marcos Hernandez, Iair Arcavi, Giuliano Pignata, Rosario Cosentino, Rachel Bruch, Sergio D'Orsi, Marco Riva, Maximilian Stritzinger, Marco De Pascale, P. Schipani, P. D'Avanzo, Riccardo Claudi, Sergio Campana, Giulio Capasso, Fabrizio Vitali, Adam Rubin, Federico Biondi, Anna Brucalassi, Seppo Mattila, Matteo Genoni, Gianluca Li Causi, Michael Rappaport, José Antonio Araiza-Duran, Davide Ricci, Francesco D'Alessio, Andrea Baruffolo, Mirko Colapietro, Stephen Smartt, Enrico Cappellaro, Marco Landoni, Massimo Della Valle, Ricardo Zanmar Sanchez, Hanindyo Kuncarayakti, Kalyan Radhakrishnan, Hector Ventura, Avishay Gal-Yam, D. R. Young, Matteo Munari, Matteo Aliverti, Bernardo Salasnich, Salvatore Scuderi, Rosario Di Benedetto, O. Hershko, J. Achrén, Guzman, Juan C., Ibsen, Jorge, ITA, CHL, FIN, and ISR
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Instrument control ,Computer science ,business.industry ,Astronomy ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Imaging ,Instrument Control Software ,SOXS ,Software ,Calibration ,Transient (computer programming) ,State (computer science) ,Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,business ,Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) ,Spectrograph ,Spectroscopy ,Computer hardware - Abstract
SOXS (Son Of X-Shooter) is a forthcoming instrument for ESO-NTT, mainly dedicated to the spectroscopic study of transient events and is currently starting the AIT (Assembly, Integration, and Test) phase. It foresees a visible spectrograph, a near-Infrared (NIR) spectrograph, and an acquisition camera for light imaging and secondary guiding. The optimal setup and the monitoring of SOXS are carried out with a set of software-controlled motorized components and sensors. The instrument control software (INS) also manages the observation and calibration procedures, as well as maintenance and self-test operations. The architecture of INS, based on the latest release of the VLT Software (VLT2019), has been frozen; the code development is in an advanced state for what concerns supported components and observation procedures, which run in simulation. In this proceeding we present the INS current status, focusing in particular on the ongoing efforts in the support of two non-standard, "special" devices. The first special device is the piezoelectric slit exchanger for the NIR spectrograph; the second special device is the piezoelectric tip-tilt corrector used for active compensation of mechanical flexures of the instrument., 8 pages, 4 figures
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- 2020