What is your favorite transient event? SOXS is almost ready to observe!

Kalyan Kumar Radhakrishnan Santhakumari, Federico Battaini, Simone Di Filippo, Silvio Di Rosa, Lorenzo Cabona, Riccardo Claudi, Luigi Lessio, Marco Dima, David Young, Marco Landoni, Mirko Colapietro, Sergio D'Orsi, Matteo Aliverti, Matteo Genoni, Matteo Munari, Ricardo Zanmar Sánchez, Fabrizio Vitali, Davide Ricci, Pietro Schipani, Sergio CampanaJani Achrén, José Araiza-Durán, lair Arcavi, Andrea Baruffolo, Sagi Ben-Ami, Alex Bichkovsky, Anna Brucalassi, Rachel Bruch, Giulio Capasso, Enrico Cappellaro, Rosario Cosentino, Francesco D'Alessio, Paolo D'Avanzo, Massimo Della Valle, Rosario Di Benedetto, Avishay Gal-Yam, Marcos Hernandez Diaz, Ofir Hershko, Jari Kotilainen, Hanindyo Kuncarayakti, Gianluca Li Causi, Luca Marafatto, Eugenio Martinetti, Laurent Marty, Seppo Mattila, Antonio Miccichè, Gaetano Nicotra, Luca Oggioni, Hector Perez Ventura, Giorgio Pariani, Giuliano Pignata, Michael Rappaport, Marco Riva, Adam Rubin, Bernardo Salasnich, Salvatore Savarese, Salvatore Scuderi, Steven Smartt, Maximilian Stritzinger

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Abstract

The Son Of X-Shooter (SOXS) will be the specialized facility to observe any transient event with a flexible scheduler at the ESO New Technology Telescope (NTT) at La Silla, Chile.SOXS is a single object spectrograph offering s imultaneous s pectral c overage i n U V-VIS (350-850 n m) a nd N IR (800-2000 n m) w avelength regimes with an average of R∼4500 for a 1” slit.SOXS also has imaging capabilities in the visible wavelength regime.Currently, SOXS is being integrated at the INAF-Astronomical Observatory of Padova.Subsystem- and system-level tests and verification are ongoing to ensure and confirm that every requirement and performance are met.In this paper, we report on the integration and verification of SOXS as the team and the instrument prepare for the Preliminary Acceptance Europe (PAE).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationGround-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X
EditorsJulia J. Bryant, Kentaro Motohara, Joel R. Vernet
PublisherSPIE
ISBN (Electronic)9781510675155
DOIs
StatePublished - 2024
EventGround-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X 2024 - Yokohama, Japan
Duration: 16 Jun 202421 Jun 2024

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume13096

Conference

ConferenceGround-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X 2024
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityYokohama
Period16/06/2421/06/24

Keywords

  • AIVT
  • Astronomical Instrumentation
  • NIR
  • SOXS
  • Spectrograph
  • Transients
  • UV
  • VIS

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Computer Science Applications

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