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The SOXS Spectrograph Instrument Control Software

Davide Ricci , Bernardo Salasnich , Andrea Baruffolo , Jani Achr\'en , Matteo Aliverti , Jos\'e A. Araiza-Dur\'an , Iair Arcavi , Laura Asquini
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Federico Battaini Sagi Ben-Ami Alex Bichkovsky Anna Brucalassi Rachel Bruch Lorenzo Cabona Sergio Campana Giulio Capasso Enrico Cappellaro Riccardo Claudi Mirko Colapietro Rosario Cosentino Francesco D'Alessio Paolo D'Avanzo Sergio D'Orsi Massimo Della Valle Rosario Di Benedetto Simone Di Filippo Avishay Gal-Yam Matteo Genoni Marcos Hernandez D\'iaz Ofir Hershko Jari Kotilainen Hanindyo Kuncarayakti Marco Landoni Gianluca Li Causi Laurent Marty Seppo Mattila Matteo Munari Luca Oggioni Hector P\'erez Ventura Giorgio Pariani Giuliano Pignata Kalyan Kumar Radhakrishnan Santhakumari Stephen Smartt Michael Rappaport Marco Riva Adam Rubin Salvatore Savarese Pietro Schipani Salvatore Scuderi Maximilian Stritzinger Fabrizio Vitali David Young Ricardo Zanmar Sanchez Gerard Zins
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keywords SOXSinstrument control softwareESO standardsspectrographpiezoelectric tip-tiltcryogenic slit exchangerNTTVLT software reuse
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The pith

The SOXS spectrograph control software uses ESO VLT standards to manage motors, detectors and unique components at the NTT.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

This paper presents the design of the Instrument Control Software for the SOXS spectrograph, recently installed at the NTT. The software controls motors, calibration lamps, detectors and sensors while coordinating exposures and all observation, calibration and maintenance procedures. It draws directly on the consortium's prior work with VLT instruments by adopting the same hardware and software standards. The authors detail how the system handles SOXS-specific elements including a piezoelectric tip-tilt corrector for flexure compensation, a cryogenic slit exchanger, co-rotator monitoring and a commercial imaging camera.

Core claim

The SOXS Instrument Software is designed around ESO VLT standards to control the full set of instrument functions, from motor positioning and lamp operation to detector readout and status monitoring. It implements observation sequences, calibration routines and maintenance tasks through a unified control network while adding dedicated modules for the piezoelectric tip-tilt corrector, the cryogenic NIR slit exchanger, the co-rotator system and the COTS visible camera.

What carries the argument

The Instrument Software (INS) control system, which applies VLT-derived standards to coordinate motors, detectors and procedures while incorporating custom drivers for SOXS-specific piezoelectric and cryogenic hardware.

If this is right

  • The software enables coordinated execution of exposures and calibration procedures for transient-source characterization across UV to NIR bands.
  • Continuous sensor monitoring and status reporting support safe operation of the detectors and mechanical components.
  • Dedicated control loops for the tip-tilt corrector and slit exchanger allow active compensation and rapid reconfiguration during observations.
  • Uniform procedures for calibration and maintenance reduce the need for custom scripting at the telescope.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Reusing VLT standards may shorten the commissioning timeline for future instruments built by the same teams.
  • Experience with the COTS camera and piezoelectric devices could inform similar hybrid control solutions on other mid-sized telescopes.
  • Successful long-term operation at La Silla would provide a practical test of how well VLT-derived software scales to non-VLT sites.

Load-bearing premise

Standards and control approaches developed for VLT instruments can be applied to SOXS at the NTT with only minor adaptations for its piezoelectric tip-tilt corrector and cryogenic slit exchanger.

What would settle it

Operational logs showing that the tip-tilt corrector fails to compensate flexures or the slit exchanger cannot reliably change slits at cryogenic temperatures would disprove the claim that the VLT-based design works with minor adaptations.

read the original abstract

SOXS (Son Of X-Shooter) is a new spectrograph for the European Southern Observatory (ESO), recently installed at the New Technology Telescope (NTT) at the La Silla Observatory, Chile. The main instrument goal consists in the characterization of transient sources, based on alerts. It covers from (partially) ultra-violet to visible and near-infrared bands, with a spectral resolution of R $\sim 4500$, using two separate, wavelength-optimized spectrographs. A scientific grade visible camera, primarily intended for target acquisition, also provides a "light imaging" mode. In this paper, we present the design of the SOXS Instrument Control Software, which is in charge of controlling all motors, calibration lamps and detectors, monitoring sensors and components' status, coordinating the execution of exposures, and implementing all observation, calibration and maintenance procedures. Given the extensive experience of the SOXS consortium in the development of instruments for the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT), we decided to base the design of the Control System on the same standards, both for hardware and software control. We illustrate the control network, the instrument functions and detectors to be controlled, the overall design of SOXS Instrument Software (INS) and its main components. Then, we provide details about the control software for the most SOXS-specific components, and peculiar features: the piezoelectric tip-tilt corrector used for active compensation of mechanical flexures of the instrument; the cryogenic piezoelectric slit exchanger for the NIR spectrograph; the co-rotator monitoring system; and the control of the Commercial-Off-the-Shelf (COTS)- based imaging camera.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript describes the design of the Instrument Control Software (INS) for the SOXS spectrograph at the ESO NTT. It is responsible for controlling motors, calibration lamps, and detectors; monitoring sensors and component status; coordinating exposures; and implementing observation, calibration, and maintenance procedures. The design is based on ESO VLT hardware and software standards, with targeted adaptations for SOXS-specific elements including the piezoelectric tip-tilt corrector for flexure compensation, the cryogenic piezoelectric slit exchanger for the NIR arm, the co-rotator monitoring system, and the COTS-based imaging camera.

Significance. If implemented as described, the architecture would provide a coherent, standards-compliant control system that reuses consortium VLT experience for a new transient-focused instrument. The paper's primary contribution is the documentation of the control network, instrument functions, and component-specific software details, which can serve as a reference for similar ESO-style instruments. The stress-test concern about missing performance data, error budgets, or verification results does not land here, because the central claim is a descriptive account of the design rather than a claim of validated performance.

minor comments (3)
  1. The abstract states that details are provided for the most SOXS-specific components, but the manuscript would benefit from a short table or diagram summarizing the mapping between VLT-standard modules and the four highlighted adaptations (tip-tilt corrector, slit exchanger, co-rotator, COTS camera) to improve readability.
  2. Section describing the overall INS design should explicitly note any deviations from the standard VLT template (e.g., new device drivers or communication protocols) rather than only describing the adaptations; this would clarify the scope of the 'minor adaptations' mentioned in the abstract.
  3. The paper refers to 'ESO VLT standards' without citing the specific ESO documents or software frameworks (e.g., VLT Common Software or particular ICS libraries) used as the baseline; adding these references would strengthen the claim of direct reuse.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their positive summary and significance assessment of the manuscript describing the SOXS Instrument Control Software. We appreciate the recommendation for minor revision and the recognition that the central contribution is a descriptive account of the design based on ESO VLT standards, rather than performance validation.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity

full rationale

The paper is a purely descriptive account of the SOXS Instrument Control Software architecture, its responsibilities for motors, detectors, lamps, sensors, and procedures, and its adoption of ESO VLT hardware/software standards with targeted adaptations for components such as the piezoelectric tip-tilt corrector, cryogenic slit exchanger, co-rotator, and COTS imaging camera. No equations, derivations, fitted parameters, predictions, or mathematical claims appear anywhere in the text. The design choices are justified by reference to established external ESO VLT standards and consortium experience rather than by any self-referential loop, self-citation chain, or renaming of inputs as outputs. The central description is therefore self-contained and does not reduce to its own inputs by construction.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The paper introduces no free parameters, new physical entities, or ad-hoc axioms; it relies on the domain assumption that ESO VLT control standards transfer directly to this instrument.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption ESO VLT instrument control standards and hardware interfaces are directly applicable to the SOXS spectrograph at the NTT
    Stated explicitly as the basis for the design choice due to consortium experience.

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