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MAVIS: performance estimation of the adaptive optics module
Guido Agapito, Daniele Vassallo, Cédric Plantet +5
The MCAO Assisted Visible Imager and Spectrograph (MAVIS) is a new visible instrument for ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT). Its Adaptive Optics Module (AOM) must provide extreme adap…
The HD 93963 A transiting system: A 1.04d super-Earth and a 3.65 d sub-Neptune discovered by TESS and CHEOPS
L. M. Serrano, D. Gandolfi, S. Hoyer +109
We present the discovery of two small planets transiting HD 93963A (TOI-1797), a G0\,V star (M=1.109\,\,0.043\,M, R=1.043\,\,0.009\,R) in a visual…
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…
Dark tip-tilt sensing
Carmelo Arcidiacono, Roberto Ragazzoni, Valentina Viotto +6
Dark wavefront sensing in its simplest and more crude form is a quad-cell with a round spot of dark ink acting as occulting disk at the center. This sensor exhibits fainter limitin…
A decline and fall in the future of Italian Astronomy?
Angelo Antonelli, Vincenzo Antonuccio-Delogu, Andrea Baruffolo +89
On May 27th 2010, the Italian astronomical community learned with concern that the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) was going to be suppressed, and that its employees wer…