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SOUL at LBT: commissioning results, science and future.

Enrico Pinna 1, 2, *, @ , Fabio Rossi 1, @ , Guido Agapito 1, @ , Cedric Plantet 1, @ , Essna Ghose 1, @ , Alfio Puglisi 1, @ , Doug Miller 3, @ , Jennifer Power 3, @ , Barry Rothberg 3, @ , Gregory Taylor 3, @ , Juan Carlos Guerra 3, @ , Alessandro Cavallaro 3, @ , Michael Lefebvre 3, @ , Steve Ertel 3, @ , Amali Vaz 4, @ , Guido Brusa Zappellini 3, @ , Xianyu Zhang 3, @ , Matthieu Bec 3, @ , Brandon Mechtley 3, @

1 : INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri

2 : ADONI

3 : Large Binocular Telescope Observatory [Tucson]

4 : Steward Observatory

* : Corresponding author

The SOUL systems at the Large Bincoular Telescope can be considered as pathfinders for the ELT SCAO systems, bringing together key techncologies as EMCCD, Pyramid WFS and adaptive telescopes. After the first light of the first upgraded system on September 2018, going through COVID-19 and technical stops, we have now all the 4 systems working on sky. Here, we report about the results of the commissioning work, aimed to reach the nominal performances together with reliability for an optimal scientific production. The SOUL upgrade allows now to correct more modes in the bright end and increses the sky coverage on the faint end, opening to extragalcatic targets. Finally, we will shortly review the first astrophisical results, looking forward to the next generation of instuments (SHARK-NIR, SHARK-Vis and iLocater), to exploit the SOUL WF correction.

Subject :	:	oral
Topics	:	AO pathfinders and new concepts
Keywords	:	Pyramid:SCAO:NGS
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