SOXS (Son Of X-Shooter) is a single object spectrograph built by an international consortium for the ESO NTT telescope. SOXS is based on the heritage of the X-Shooter at the ESO-VLT with two arms (UV-VIS and NIR) working in parallel, with a Resolution-Slit product of about 4500, capable of simultaneously observing over the entire band the complete spectral range from the U- to the H-band. SOXS will carry out rapid and long-term Target of Opportunity requests on a variety of astronomical objects. The SOXS vacuum and cryogenic control system has been designed to evacuate, cool down and maintain the UV-VIS detector and the entire NIR spectrograph to their operating temperatures. The design chosen allows the two arms to be operated independently. This paper describes the final design of the cryo-vacuum control system, its functionalities and the tests performed in the integration laboratories.
@article{arxiv.2209.07208,
title = {The vacuum and cryogenics system of the SOXS spectrograph},
author = {S. Scuderi and G. Bellassai and R. Di Benedetto and E. Martinetti and A. Micciché and G. Nicotra and G. Occhipinti and C. Sciré and M. Aliverti and M. Genoni and F. Vitali and S. Campana and R. Claudi 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. Hershko and H. Kuncarayakti and M. Landoni and M. Munari and G. Pignata and K. Radhakrishnan and A. Rubin and D. Young and J. Achren and J. A. Araiza-Duran and I. Arcavi and F. Battaini and A. Brucalassi and R. Bruch and E. Cappellaro and M. Colapietro and M. Della Valle and S. D'Orsi 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 D. Ricci and M. Riva and B. Salasnich and S. Smartt and R. Zanmar Sanchez and M. Stritzinger and H. Perez Ventura},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.07208},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
12 pages, 6 figures, SPIE proceedings of the conference Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation IV