Walking with SOXS towards the transient sky
Abstract
SOXS (Son Of X-Shooter) is the new ESO instrument that is going to be installed on the 3.58-m New Technology Telescope at the La Silla Observatory. SOXS is a single object spectrograph offering a wide simultaneous spectral coverage from U- to H-band. Although such an instrument may have potentially a large variety of applications, the consortium designed it with a clear science case: it is going to provide the spectroscopic counterparts to the ongoing and upcoming imaging surveys, becoming one of the main follow-up instruments in the Southern hemisphere for the classification and characterization of transients. The NTT+SOXS system is specialized to observe all transients and variable sources discovered by imaging surveys with a flexible schedule maintained by the consortium, based on a remote scheduler which will interface with the observatory software infrastructure. SOXS is realized timely to be highly synergic with transients discovery machines like the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. The instrument has been integrated and tested in Italy, collecting and assembling subsystems coming from all partners spread over six countries in three continents. The first preparatory activities in Chile have been completed at the telescope. This article gives an updated status of the project before the shipping of the instrument to Chile.
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@article{arxiv.2407.17241,
title = {Walking with SOXS towards the transient sky},
author = {P. Schipani and S. Campana and R. Claudi and M. Aliverti and A. Baruffolo and S. Ben-Ami and G. Capasso and M. Colapietro and R. Cosentino and F. D'Alessio and P. D'Avanzo and M. Genoni and O. Hershko and H. Kuncarayakti and M. Landoni and M. Munari and G. Pignata and K. Radhakrishnan and D. Ricci and A. Rubin and S. Scuderi and F. Vitali and D. Young and M. Accardo and J. Achrén and J. A. Araiza-Durán and I. Arcavi and L. Asquini and F. Battaini and A. Bichkovsky and A. Brucalassi and R. Bruch and L. Cabona and E. Cappellaro and M. Della Valle and S. Di Filippo and R. Di Benedetto and S. D'Orsi and A. Gal-Yam and M. Hernandez and D. Ives and H. -U. Kaeufl and J. Kotilainen and G. Li Causi and L. Lessio and L. Marty and S. Mattila and L. Mehrgan and L. Pasquini and E. Pompei and M. Rappaport and M. Riva and B. Salasnich and S. Savarese and I. Saviane and M. Schöller and A. Silber and S. Smartt and R. Zanmar Sanchez and M. Stritzinger and A. Sulich and H. Ventura},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.17241},
year = {2024}
}
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SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2024, Yokohama, Japan