1. The VST auxiliary units: a status report before their commissioning in Paranal
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Davide Fierro, Alessandro Da Ronco, Carmelo Arcidiacono, Sergio D'Orsi, Luigi Ferragina, Roberto Ragazzoni, Giacinto De Paris, Jacopo Farinato, Pietro Schipani, Raffaele Tomelleri, Demetrio Magrin, Gabriele Umbriaco, Pierfrancesco Rossettini, Massimo Capaccioli, Stefano Recchia, Laurent Marty, Francesco Perina, Farinato, Jacopo, Schipani, Pietro, Arcidiacono, Carmelo, Capaccioli, Massimo, da Ronco, Alessandro, de Paris, Giacinto, D'Orsi, Sergio, Ferragina, Luigi, Fierro, Davide, Magrin, Demetrio, Marty, Laurent, Perina, Francesco, Ragazzoni, Roberto, Recchia, Stefano, Rossettini, Pierfrancesco, Umbriaco, Gabriele, and Tomelleri, Raffaele
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Wide field ,Computer science ,business.industry ,Project commissioning ,Applied Mathematics ,Real-time computing ,Atmospheric dispersion compensator ,Active optics ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Status report ,Computer Science Applications ,law.invention ,Telescope ,VLT ,law ,Auto guide ,Electronic ,Optical and Magnetic Materials ,Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition ,Electrical and Electronic Engineering ,Adaptive optics ,Telecommunications ,business ,Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials - 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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- 2010
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