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astro-ph.IM2025

SHINS, the SHARK-NIR Instrument Control Software

Davide Ricci, Fulvio Laudisio, Alessandro Lorenzetto +20

SHARK-NIR is a new compact instrument for coronagraphic imaging, direct imaging, and coronagraphic spectroscopy in the near-infrared wavelengths mounted at LBT. Taking advantage of…

astro-ph.IM2024

Telescope control software and proto-model siderostat for the SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper

Hojae Ahn, Florian Briegel, Jimin Han +19

The fifth Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-V) Local Volume Mapper (LVM) is a wide-field integral field unit (IFU) survey that uses an array of four 160 mm fixed telescopes with sider…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 3 cited

Validating the Local Volume Mapper acquisition and guiding hardware

Maximilian Häberle, Thomas M. Herbst, Peter Bizenberger +13

The Local Volume Mapper (LVM) project is one of three surveys that form the Sloan Digital Sky Survey V. It will map the interstellar gas emission in a large fraction of the souther…

astro-ph.IM2021

LINC-NIRVANA Commissioning at the Large Binocular Telescope -- Lessons Learned

Kalyan Kumar Radhakrishnan Santhakumari, Carmelo Arcidiacono, Maria Bergomi +11

LINC-NIRVANA (LN) is one of the instruments on-board the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT). LN is a high-resolution, near-infrared imager equipped with an advanced adaptive optics mo…

astro-ph.IM2018

Alignment and preliminary outcomes of an ELT-size instrument to a very large telescope: LINC-NIRVANA at LBT

M. Bergomi, L. Marafatto, V. Viotto +14

LINC-NIRVANA (LN) is a high resolution, near infrared imager that uses a multiple field-of-view, layer-oriented, multi-conjugate AO system, consisting of four multi-pyramid wavefro…

astro-ph.IM2018

The calibration procedure of the LINC-NIRVANA ground and high layer WFS

Carmelo Arcidiacono, Kalyan Kumar Radhakrishnan Santhakumari, Valentina Viotto +12

LINC--NIRVANA (LN) is an MCAO module currently mounted on the Rear Bent Gregorian focus of the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT). It mounts a camera originally designed to realize th…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 25 cited

MICADO: first light imager for the E-ELT

R. Davies, J. Schubert, M. Hartl +80

MICADO will equip the E-ELT with a first light capability for diffraction limited imaging at near-infrared wavelengths. The instrument's observing modes focus on various flavours o…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 3 cited

Pathfinder first light: alignment, calibration, and commissioning of the LINC-NIRVANA ground-layer adaptive optics subsystem

Derek Kopon, Al Conrad, Carmelo Arcidiacono +15

We present descriptions of the alignment and calibration tests of the Pathfinder, which achieved first light during our 2013 commissioning campaign at the LBT. The full LINC-NIRVAN…

astro-ph.IM2014

Laboratory Results and Status Update for Pathfinder at LBT, The LINC-NIRVANA NGS Ground- Layer AO Subsystem

Derek Kopon, Al Conrad, Thomas Bertram +20

The full LINC-NIRVANA instrument will be one of the most complex ground-based astronomical systems ever built. It will consist of multiple subsystems, including two multi-conjugate…