SOXS (Son Of X-Shooter) will be the new medium-resolution (R 4500 for 1 slit), high-efficiency, wide-band spectrograph for the ESO NTT at La Silla Observatory, Chile. It will be dedicated to the follow-up of any kind of transient events, ensuring fast time, high efficiency, and availability. It consists of a central structure (common path) that supports two spectrographs optimized for the UV-Visible and a Near-Infrared range. Attached to the common path is the Acquisition and Guiding Camera system (AC), equipped with a filter wheel that can provide science-grade imaging and moderate high-speed photometry. The AC Unit was integrated and aligned during the summer months of 2022 and has since been mounted in the NTTs telescope simulator. This work gives an update on the Acquisition Camera Unit status, describes the Image Quality Tests that were performed, and discusses the AC Optical Performance.
@article{arxiv.2407.17382,
title = {Final Alignment and Image Quality Test for the Acquisition and Guiding System of SOXS},
author = {J. A. Araiza-Duran and G. Pignata and A. Brucalassi and M. Aliverti and F. Battaini and K. Radhakrishnan and S. Di Filippo and L. Lessio and R. Claudi and D. Ricci and M. Colapietro and R. Cosentino and S. D'Orsi and M. Munari and M. Dima and P. Schipani and S. Campana and A. Baruffolo and R. Zanmar Sanchez and M. Riva and M. Genoni and S. Ben-Ami and A. Rubin and R. Bruch and G. Capasso and F. D'Alessio and P. D'Avanzo and O. Hershko and H. Kuncarayakti and M. Landoni and S. Scuderi and F. Vitali and D. Young and J. Achren and I. Arcavi and E. Cappellaro and M. Della Valle and R. Di Benedetto and A. Gal-Yam and M. Hernandez Diaz and J. Kotilainen and G. Li Causi and L. Marty and S. Mattila and M. Rappaport and B. Salasnich and S. Smartt and M. Stritzinger and H. Perez Ventura and L. Asquini and A. Bichkovsky and S. Savarese and L. Cabona},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.17382},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
SPIE Proceedings Volume 13096, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X; 1309672 (2024)