SOXS (Son of X-shooter) is a wide band, medium resolution spectrograph for the ESO NTT with a first light expected in 2021. The instrument will be composed by five semi-independent subsystems: a pre-slit Common Path, an Acquisition Camera, a Calibration Box, the NIR spectrograph, and the UV-VIS spectrograph. In this paper, we present the mechanical design of the subsystems, the kinematic mounts developed to simplify the final integration procedure and the maintenance. The concept of the CP and NIR optomechanical mounts developed for a simple pre-alignment procedure and for the thermal compensation of reflective and refractive elements will be shown.
@article{arxiv.1809.01589,
title = {The mechanical design of SOXS for the NTT},
author = {M Aliverti and O Hershko and O Diner and A Brucallassi and G Pignata and H Kuncarayakti and A Bianco and S Campana and R Claudi and P Schipani and A Baruffolo and S Ben-Ami and F Biondi and G Capasso and R Cosentino and F DAlessio and P DAvanzo and M Munari and A Rubin and S Scuderi and F Vitali and J Achrén and J. A. Araiza-Duran and I Arcavi and E Cappellaro and M Colapietro and M Della Valle and S DOrsi 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 Lethi and G Li Causi and L Marafatto and S Mattila and G Pariani and M Rappaport and D Ricci and M Riva and B Salasnich and S Smartt and M Turatto and R Zanmar Sanchez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.01589},
year = {2018}
}