Son of X-Shooter (SOXS) will be a high-efficiency spectrograph with a mean Resolution-Slit product of ∼4500 over the entire band capable of simultaneously observing the complete spectral range 350-2000 nm. It consists of three scientific arms (the UV-VIS Spectrograph, the NIR Spectrograph, and the Acquisition Camera) connected by the Common Path system to the NTT, and the Calibration Unit. The Common Path is the backbone of the instrument and the interface to the NTT Nasmyth focus flange. The instrument project went through the Final Design Review in 2018 and is currently in Assembly Integration and test (AIT) Phase. This paper outlines the observing modes of SOXS and the efficiency of each subsystem and the laboratory test plan to evaluate it.
@article{arxiv.2012.12736,
title = {Operational modes and efficiency of SOXS},
author = {R. Claudi and F. Biondi and N. Elias-Rosa and M. Genoni and M. Munari and K. Radhakrishnan and D. Ricci and R. Zanmar Sanchez and S. Campana and P. Schipani and M. Aliverti and A. Baruffolo and S. Ben-Ami and A. Brucalassi and G. Capasso and R. Cosentino and F. D'Alessio and P. D'Avanzo and O. Hershko and H. Kuncarayakti and M. Landoni and G. Pignata and A. Rubin and S. Scuderi and F. Vitali and D. Young and J. Achrén and J. A. Araiza-Duran and I. Arcavi and Bruch and E. Cappellaro and M. Colapietro and M. Della Valle and R. Di Benedetto and M. De Pascale and S. D'Orsi and M. Hernandez and A. Gal-Yam and G. Li Causi and L. Marafatto and S. Matila and M. Rappaport and M. Riva and B. Salasnich and S. Smartt and M. Stritzinger and M. Turatto and H. Perez Ventura},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.12736},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
10 pages, 4 figures. 2020 SPIE Conference. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1812.07401