The Son Of X-Shooter (SOXS) is a two-channel spectrograph along with imaging capabilities, characterized by a wide spectral coverage (350nm to 2000nm), designed for the NTT telescope at the La Silla Observatory. Its main scientific goal is the spectroscopic follow-up of transients and variable objects. The UV-VIS arm, of the Common Path sub-system, is characterized by the presence of a powered Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector composed (ADC) by two counter-rotating quadruplets, two prisms, and two lenses each. The presence of powered optics in both the optical groups represents an additional challenge in the alignment procedures. We present the characteristics of the ADC, the analysis after receiving the optics from the manufacturer, the emerging issues, the alignment strategies we followed, and the final results of the ADC in dispersion and optical quality.
@article{arxiv.2209.07200,
title = {The internal alignment and validation of a powered ADC for SOXS},
author = {F. Battaini and K. Radhakrishnan and R. Claudi and M. Munari and R. Z. Sànchez and M. Aliverti and M. Colapietro and D. Ricci and L. Lessio and M. Dima and F. Biondi and S. Campana and P. Schipani and A. Baruffolo and S. Ben-Ami and G. Capasso and R. Cosentino and F. D'Alessio and P. D'Avanzo and O. Hershkod 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 A. Brucalassi and R. Bruch and E. Cappellaro and M. Della Valle and M. De Pascale and R. Di Benedetto and S. D'Orsi and A. Gal-Yam and M. Genoni and M. Hernandez and J. Kotilainen and G. Li Causi and L. Marty and S. Mattila and M. Rappaportd and M. Riva and B. Salasnich and S. Smartt and M. Stritzingerv and H. Venturae},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.07200},
year = {2022}
}