SOXS (Son of X-Shooter) will be the new medium resolution (R∼4500 for a 1 arcsec slit), high-efficiency, wide band spectrograph for the ESO-NTT telescope on La Silla. It will be able to cover simultaneously optical and NIR bands (350-2000nm) using two different arms and a pre-slit Common Path feeding system. SOXS will provide an unique facility to follow up any kind of transient event with the best possible response time in addition to high efficiency and availability. Furthermore, a Calibration Unit and an Acquisition Camera System with all the necessary relay optics will be connected to the Common Path sub-system. The Acquisition Camera, working in optical regime, will be primarily focused on target acquisition and secondary guiding, but will also provide an imaging mode for scientific photometry. In this work we give an overview of the Acquisition Camera System for SOXS with all the different functionalities. The optical and mechanical design of the system are also presented together with the preliminary performances in terms of optical quality, throughput, magnitude limits and photometric properties.
@article{arxiv.1809.01526,
title = {The Acquisition Camera System for SOXS at NTT},
author = {A. Brucalassi and A. Araiza-Duran and G. Pignata and S. Campana and R. Claudi and P. Schipani and M. Aliverti and A. Baruffolo and S. Ben-Ami and F. Biondi and G. Capasso and R. Cosentino and F. D'Alessio and P. D'Avanzo and D. Gardiol and O. Hershko and H. Kuncarayakti and M. Munari and D. Ricci and M. Riva and A. Rubin and R. Zanmar Sanchez and S. Scuderi and F. Vitali and J. Achrén and I. Arcavi and A. Bianco and E. Cappellaro and M. Colapietro and M. Della Valle and O. Diner and S. D'Orsi and D. Fantinel and J. Fynbo and A. Gal-Yam and M. Genoni and M. Hirvonen and J. Kotilainen and T. Kumar and M. Landoni and J. Lehti and G. Li Causi and D. Loreggia and L. Marafatto and S. Mattila and G. Pariani and M. Rappaport and B. Salasnich and S. Smartt and M. Turatto},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.01526},
year = {2018}
}