A Cubesat Payload for Exoplanet Detection.

scientific article published on 02 March 2017

A Matlab based toolbox for active optics

A New Search for Variability-Selected Active Galaxies Within the VST SUDARE-VOICE Survey: The Chandra Deep Field South and the SERVS-SWIRE Area ⬇️

A Photometric Study of Giant Ellipticals and Their Stellar Halos With VST

A forming wide polar-ring galaxy at z ~ 0.05 in the VST Deep Field of the Fornax cluster ⬇️

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

A method for the use of ellipticities and spot diameters for the measurement of aberrations in wide-field telescopes

A preliminary optical design for the JANUS camera of ESA's space mission JUICE

A simulation model for a telescope earthquake analysis: the VST primary mirror safety system

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Active optics control of VST telescope secondary mirror

scientific article published on 01 June 2010

Active optics correction forces for the VST 2.6m primary mirror

Active optics primary mirror support system for the 2.6 m VST telescope

scientific article published on 01 March 2010

Active optics system of the VLT Survey Telescope.

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An ultra diffuse galaxy in the NGC 5846 group from the VEGAS survey

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Architecture of the SOXS instrument control software

Commissioning the VST Telescope control software

scholarly article published 24 September 2012

Dark matter line searches with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

scientific article published in July 2024

Efficient diagnosis of radiotelescopes from far-field data

Efficient diagnosis of radiotélescopes misalignments

Encoder system design: strategies for error compensation

Enola Gay: an integrated modelling optical toolbox applied to a wide-field telescope

Fast active optics control of wide-field telescopes based on science image analysis

Filling the gap between FEM and control simulations in telescope projects

First Results from Supernova Diversity and Rate Evolution (SUDARE) Survey at VST

Focal-plane wavefront sensing for active optics in the VST based on an analytical optical aberration model

GRAWITA: VLT Survey Telescope observations of the gravitational wave sources GW150914 and GW151226

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Galileo Italian National Telescope (TNG) control system: adaptive preload control improvements

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Galileo Telescope model identification

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Galileo high-resolution encoder system

Ground-based telescope pointing and tracking optimization using a neural controller

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Guiding and adapter/rotator control software approach: the VST case

Integrated modeling approach for an active optics system

Intracluster Patches of Baryons in the Core of the Fornax Cluster

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Italian National Galileo Telescope (TNG) system description and tracking performance in the workshop

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MITS: the Multi-Imaging Transient Spectrograph for SOXS

MarsTEM field test in Mars analog environment

Mechatronic distributed control system for telescope primary mirror active optics

Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger ⬇️

scientific article published on 16 October 2017

Neural variable structure controller for telescope pointing and tracking improvement

Observational constraints on the optical and near-infrared emission from the neutron star–black hole binary merger candidate S190814bv

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OmegaWINGS: OmegaCAM-VST observations of WINGS galaxy clusters ⬇️

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Optical design and stray light analysis for the JANUS camera of the JUICE space mission

Optical design of the SOXS spectrograph for ESO NTT

Parallel robots in a ground-based telescope active optics system: theory and experiments

Performance of the VST secondary mirror support system

Pointing and tracking results of the VST telescope

Prospects for a survey of the galactic plane with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

scientific article published in October 2024

Removing static aberrations from the active optics system of a wide-field telescope

scientific article published on 01 July 2012

SOXS control electronics design

SOXS: a wide band spectrograph to follow up transients

STEP: the VST survey of the SMC and the Magellanic Bridge – I. Overview and first results★ ⬇️

article by V. Ripepi et al published 17 June 2014 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

STREGA: STRucture and Evolution of the GAlaxy – I. Survey overview and first results★ ⬇️

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STREGA@VST: Structure and Evolution of the Galaxy

SUDARE-VOICE variability-selection of active galaxies in theChandraDeep Field South and the SERVS/SWIRE region ⬇️

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Shapley Supercluster Survey: Galaxy evolution from filaments to cluster cores ⬇️

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Singular values behaviour optimization in the diagnosis of feed misalignments in radioastronomical reflectors

Software and control system for the VLT Survey Telescope

Spectroscopic identification of r-process nucleosynthesis in a double neutron-star merger

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Stewart platform kinematics and secondary mirror aberration control

Supernova rates from the SUDARE VST-OmegaCAM search. I. Rates per unit volume ⬇️

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Supernova rates from the SUDARE VST-Omegacam search II. Rates in a galaxy sample ⬇️

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Survey Telescope control electronics

TNG control system software architecture improvement

scholarly article published 26 May 1998

TNG control system: computer architecture, interfacing, and synchronization

TNG main axes motion control progress report

TNG motion control system

TNG rotator axes motion control

Telescope control system stability study using a variable structure controller

Telescope pillar and enclosure vibration control

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The ADC for the VST Telescope: theory and preliminary test of the electromechanical system

The DREAMS Experiment Onboard the Schiaparelli Module of the ExoMars 2016 Mission: Design, Performances and Expected Results

The DREAMS experiment flown on the ExoMars 2016 mission for the study of Martian environment during the dust storm season

scholarly article by C. Bettanini et al published July 2018 in Measurement

The DREAMS experiment flown on the ExoMars 2016 mission for the study of Martian environment during the dust storm season

scholarly article published June 2017

The DREAMS experiment on the ExoMars 2016 mission for the study of Martian environment during the dust storm season

scholarly article published May 2014

The EGSE for the DREAMS payload onboard the ExoMars 2016 space mission

The ExoMars DREAMS scientific data archive

The Fornax Cluster VLT Spectroscopic Survey II – Planetary Nebulae kinematics within 200 kpc of the cluster core

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The Fornax Cluster VLT Spectroscopic Survey – I. VIMOS spectroscopy of compact stellar systems in the Fornax core region

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The Fornax Deep Survey with VST. II. Fornax A: A Two-phase Assembly Caught in the Act ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Fornax Deep Survey with the VST. V. Exploring the faintest regions of the bright early-type galaxies inside the virial radius ⬇️

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The Fornax deep survey with VST. I. The extended and diffuse stellar halo of NGC 1399 out to 192/kpc ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Intra-Group Baryons in the LEO I Pair From the VST Early-Type GAlaxy Survey

scientific article published on 21 March 2022

The JANUS camera onboard JUICE mission for Jupiter system optical imaging

The NIR spectrograph for the new SOXS instrument at the NTT

The STREGA survey – II. Globular cluster Palomar 12★

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The VIS detector system of SOXS

The VLT Survey Telescope: What Stands Behind the Surveys

The VLT‐VIRMOS Mask Manufacturing Unit

article by G. Conti et al published April 2001 in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

The VST Survey of the SMC and the Magellanic Bridge (STEP): First Results

The VST active primary mirror support system

The VST alignment: strategy and results

The VST auxiliary units: a status report before their commissioning in Paranal

The VST axes control software

scholarly article published 14 June 2006

The VST secondary mirror support system

The VST telescope optomechatronic control system

The VST telescope primary mirror safety system: simulation model and mechanical implementation

The VST tracking system and its preliminary performance

The acquisition camera system for SOXS at NTT

The active optics control software for the VST Telescope

scholarly article published 14 June 2006

The active optics system of the VST: concepts and results

The assembly integration and test activities for the new SOXS instrument at NTT

The axial actuators for the VST primary mirror

The common path of SOXS (Son of X-Shooter)

The design of the MOONS-VLT spectrometer

The electrical ground support equipment for the ExoMars 2016 DREAMS scientific instrument

The extended spatial distribution of globular clusters in the core of the Fornax cluster ⬇️

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The image quality error budget for the VST telescope

The mechanical design of SOXS for the NTT

The new SOXS instrument for the ESO NTT

The primary mirror system control software for the VST

scholarly article published 16 July 2010

The tracking control system of the VLT Survey Telescope

scientific article published on September 2012

Tracking performance of the TNG telescope

VEGAS-SSS. A VST early-type galaxy survey: analysis of small stellar systems. Testing the methodology on the globular cluster system in NGC3115 ⬇️

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

VEGAS-SSS. II. Comparing the globular cluster systems in NGC 3115 and NGC 1399 using VEGAS and FDS survey data. The quest for a common genetic heritage of globular cluster systems

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

VEGAS: A VST Early-type GAlaxy Survey

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

VEGAS: A VST Early-type GAlaxy Survey. I. Presentation, wide-field surface photometry, and substructures in NGC 4472 ⬇️

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VEGAS: A VST Early-type GAlaxy Survey. IV. NGC 1533, IC 2038, and IC 2039: An Interacting Triplet in the Dorado Group

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VEGAS: A VST Early-type Galaxy Survey. III. Mapping the Galaxy Structure, Interactions, and Intragroup Light in the NGC 5018 Group

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

VIMOS and NIRMOS multi-object spectrographs for the ESO VLT

VIMOS mechanical and control system design

VST hydrostatic bearing system control hardware

VST primary mirror active optics electronics

VST project: control software overview

VST project: distributed control system overview

VST project: technical overview

VST project: telescope dynamic analysis

VST system engineering and management of commissioning

VST telescope azimuth and altitude axes control hardware

VST telescope primary mirror active optics actuators firmware implementation

VST telescope: the control software design for the atmospheric dispersion correction

VST: from commissioning to science

Variability-Selected AGNs in the VST-SUDARE Survey of the COSMOS Field

Variability-selected active galactic nuclei in the VST-SUDARE/VOICE survey of the COSMOS field ⬇️

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Variable structure control law for telescope pointing and tracking