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SOUL at LBT: commissioning results, science and future.
Enrico Pinna  1@  , Fabio Rossi  1@  , Guido Agapito  1@  , Alfio Puglisi  1@  , Cedric Plantet  1@  , Essna Ghose  1@  , Bec Matthieu  2@  , Marco Bonaglia  3@  , Runa Briguglio  3@  , Guido Brusa  4@  , Luca Carbonaro  5@  , Alessandro Cavallaro  4@  , Julian Christou  4@  , Olivier Durney, Steve Ertel  6@  , Simone Esposito  5@  , Paolo Grani  5@  , Philip Hinz, Juan Carlos Guerra  4@  , Michael Lefebvre  7@  , Tommaso Mazzoni  5@  , Brandon Mechtley  7@  , Douglas L. Miller  6@  , Manny Montoya, Jennifer Power  6@  , Barry Rothberg  6@  , Gregory Taylor  6@  , Amali Vaz, Marco Xompero  5@  , Xianyu Zhang  6@  
1 : INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri
Largo Enrico Fermi 5, I - 50125 Firenze. Italia -  Italy
2 : Large Binocular Telescope Observatory [Tucson]
LBT Observatory, University of Arizona, 933 N. Cherry Ave, Tucson, AZ 85721-0009 -  United States
3 : INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri
Largo Enrico Fermi 5, I - 50125 Firenze. Italia -  Italy
4 : Large Binocular Telescope Observatory [Tucson]
LBT Observatory, University of Arizona, 933 N. Cherry Ave, Tucson, AZ 85721-0009 -  United States
5 : INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri
Largo Enrico Fermi 5, I - 50125 Firenze. Italia -  Italy
6 : Large Binocular Telescope Observatory [Tucson]
LBT Observatory, University of Arizona, 933 N. Cherry Ave, Tucson, AZ 85721-0009 -  United States
7 : Large Binocular Telescope Observatory [Tucson]
LBT Observatory, University of Arizona, 933 N. Cherry Ave, Tucson, AZ 85721-0009 -  United States

The SOUL systems at the Large Bincoular Telescope can be seen such as precursor for the ELT SCAO systems, combining together key technologies such as EMCCD, Pyramid WFS and adaptive telescopes. After the first light of the first upgraded system on September 2018, going through COVID and technical stops, we now have all the 4 systems working on-sky. Here, we report about some key control improvements and the system performance characterized during the commissioning. The upgrade allows us to correct more modes (500) in the bright end and increases the sky coverage providing $SR(K)>20\%$ with reference stars $G_{RP}<17$, opening to extragalcatic targets with NGS systems. Finally, we review the first astrophysical results, looking forward to the next generation instruments (SHARK-NIR, SHARK-Vis and iLocater), to be fed by the SOUL AO correction.


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