Development status of the SOXS instrument control software
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.
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@article{arxiv.2012.12683,
title = {Development status of the SOXS instrument control software},
author = {Davide Ricci and Andrea Baruffolo and Bernardo Salasnich and Marco De Pascale and Sergio Campana and Riccardo Claudi and Pietro Schipani and Matteo Aliverti and Sagi Ben-Ami and Federico Biondi and Giulio Capasso and Rosario Cosentino and Francesco D'Alessio and Paolo D'Avanzo and Ofir Hershko and Hanindyo Kuncarayakti and Marco Landoni and Matteo Munari and Giuliano Pignata and Kalyan Radhakrishnan and Adam Rubin and Salvatore Scuderi and Fabrizio Vitali and David Young and Jani Achrén and José Antonio Araiza-Duran and Iair Arcavi and Anna Brucalassi and Rachel Bruch and Enrico Cappellaro and Mirko Colapietro and Massimo Della Valle and Rosario Di Benedetto and Sergio D'Orsi and Avishay Gal-Yam and Matteo Genoni and Marcos Hernandez and Jari Kotilainen and Gianluca Li Causi and Seppo Mattila and Michael Rappaport and Marco Riva and Stephen Smartt and Ricardo Zanmar Sanchez and Maximilian Stritzinger and Hector Ventura},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.12683},
year = {2020}
}
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8 pages, 4 figures