The commissioning phase
Abstract
In May 1997 a consistent part of the services and structures committed to the industry had already been released to the commissioning group. The telescope itself was, with the exception of the Nasmyth derotators, motors and all the optics groups, basically ready in its mechanical parts to accept the integration of all services and control equipment. Also the verification of the cabling (interlocks, data-nets, power and controls) already mounted was started in the same period. Starting from June 1998 (telescope first-light date) the telescope went gradually in use, several nights per week, in order to test and tune the tracking and pointing system, the optics and the first derotator system (Nasmyth A station). At the end of the commissioning period and with the first scientific instruments mounted (April 1999) also the first routinely observations started. In this moment the telescope is doing astronomy 80% of time and the complete first-light instrumentation is mounted.
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@article{arxiv.2302.10566,
title = {The commissioning phase},
author = {F. Bortoletto and S. Benetti and G. Bonanno and C. Bonoli and P. Bruno and C. Carmona and P. Conconi and L. Corcione and R. Cosentino and M. D'Alessandro and R. Dominguez and D. Fantinel and A. Galli and D. Gardiol and A. Ghedina and F. Ghinassi and E. Giro and C. Gonzales and NI. Gonzalez and J. Guerra and A. Magazzù and D. Mancini and E. Marchetti and J. Medina and F. Pasian and F. Paulli and C. Pernechele and M. Pucillo and R. Ragazzoni and C. Riverol and L. Riverol and P. Schipani and R. Smareglia and G. Tessicini and G. Trancho and C. Vuerli and A. Zacchei},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.10566},
year = {2023}
}
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14 pages