Bringing SOUL on sky

AO4ELT6 proceedings 2019 The SOUL project is upgrading the 4 SCAO systems of LBT, pushing the current guide star limits of about 2 magnitudes fainter thanks to Electron Multiplied CCD detector. This improvement will open the NGS SCAO correction to a wider number of scientific cases from high contras...

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Main Authors:	Pinna, Enrico, Rossi, Fabio, Puglisi, Alfio, Agapito, Guido, Bonaglia, Marco, Plantet, Cedric, Mazzoni, Tommaso, Briguglio, Runa, Carbonaro, Luca, Xompero, Marco, Grani, Paolo, Riccardi, Armando, Esposito, Simone, Hinz, Phil, Vaz, Amali, Ertel, Steve, Montoya, Oscar M, Durney, Oliver, Christou, Julian, Miller, Doug L, Taylor, Greg, Cavallaro, Alessandro, Lefebvre, Michael
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	18-01-2021
Subjects:	Physics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
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Summary:	AO4ELT6 proceedings 2019 The SOUL project is upgrading the 4 SCAO systems of LBT, pushing the current guide star limits of about 2 magnitudes fainter thanks to Electron Multiplied CCD detector. This improvement will open the NGS SCAO correction to a wider number of scientific cases from high contrast imaging in the visible to extra-galactic source in the NIR. The SOUL systems are today the unique case where pyramid WFS, adaptive secondary and EMCCD are used together. This makes SOUL a pathfinder for most of the ELT SCAO systems like the one of GMT, MICADO and HARMONI of E-ELT, where the same key technologies will be employed. Today we have 3 SOUL systems installed on the telescope in commissioning phase. The 4th system will be installed in a few months. We will present here the results achieved during daytime testing and commissioning nights up to the present date.
DOI:	10.48550/arxiv.2101.07091