SOXS: a wide band spectrograph to follow up transients

Pietro Schipani; Sergio Campana; Riccardo U. Claudi; Hans-ulrich Kaufl; Matteo Accardo; Mika Hirvonen; Jussi Lehti; Jari Kotilainen; Tarun Kumar; Jani Achrén; Luca Marafatto; O. Hershko; Matteo Aliverti; Andrea Baruffolo; Sagi Ben-ami; Federico Biondi; Anna Brucalassi; Giulio Capasso; Rosario Cosentino; Francesco D'alessio; Paolo D'avanzo; Oz Diner; Daniele Gardiol; Hanindyo Kuncarayacti; Matteo Munari; Adam Rubin; Salvatore Scuderi; Fabrizio Vitali; José Antonio Araiza-durán; Iair Arcavi; Andrea Bianco; Enrico Cappellaro; Mirko Colapietro; Massimo Della Valle; Sergio D'orsi; Daniela Fantinel; Johan Fynbo; Avishay Gal-yam; Matteo Genoni; Marco Landoni; Gianluca Li Causi; Davide Loreggia; Seppo Mattila; Giorgio Pariani; Giuliano Pignata; Michael Rappaport; Marco Riva; Davide Ricci; Bernardo Salasnich; Stephen Smartt; Massimo Turatto; Ricardo Zánmar Sánchez; Hideki Takami; Christopher J. Evans; Luc Simard

doi:10.1117/12.2307349

SOXS: a wide band spectrograph to follow up transients

Pietro Schipani, Sergio Campana, Riccardo U. Claudi, Hans-ulrich Kaufl, Matteo Accardo, Mika Hirvonen, Jussi Lehti, Jari Kotilainen, Tarun Kumar, Jani Achrén, Luca Marafatto, O. Hershko, Matteo Aliverti, Andrea Baruffolo, Sagi Ben-ami, Federico Biondi, Anna Brucalassi, Giulio Capasso, Rosario Cosentino, Francesco D'alessioPaolo D'avanzo, Oz Diner, Daniele Gardiol, Hanindyo Kuncarayacti, Matteo Munari, Adam Rubin, Salvatore Scuderi, Fabrizio Vitali, José Antonio Araiza-durán, Iair Arcavi, Andrea Bianco, Enrico Cappellaro, Mirko Colapietro, Massimo Della Valle, Sergio D'orsi, Daniela Fantinel, Johan Fynbo, Avishay Gal-yam, Matteo Genoni, Marco Landoni, Gianluca Li Causi, Davide Loreggia, Seppo Mattila, Giorgio Pariani, Giuliano Pignata, Michael Rappaport, Marco Riva, Davide Ricci, Bernardo Salasnich, Stephen Smartt, Massimo Turatto, Ricardo Zánmar Sánchez, Hideki Takami, Christopher J. Evans, Luc Simard

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SOXS (Son Of X-Shooter) will be a spectrograph for the ESO NTT telescope capable to cover the optical and NIR bands, based on the heritage of the X-Shooter at the ESO-VLT. SOXS will be built and run by an international consortium, carrying out rapid and longer term Target of Opportunity requests on a variety of astronomical objects. SOXS will observe all kind of transient and variable sources from different surveys. These will be a mixture of fast alerts (e.g. gamma-ray bursts, gravitational waves, neutrino events), mid-term alerts (e.g. supernovae, X-ray transients), fixed time events (e.g. close-by passage of minor bodies). While the focus is on transients and variables, still there is a wide range of other astrophysical targets and science topics that will benefit from SOXS. The design foresees a spectrograph with a Resolution-Slit product ∼ 4500, capable of simultaneously observing over the entire band the complete spectral range from the U- to the H-band. The limiting magnitude of R∼20 (1 hr at S/N∼10) is suited to study transients identified from on-going imaging surveys. Light imaging capabilities in the optical band (grizy) are also envisaged to allow for multi-band photometry of the faintest transients. This paper outlines the status of the project, now in Final Design Phase.

Original language	English
Journal	Proceedings of the SPIE
Volume	10702
Number of pages	12
ISSN	0277-786X
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2307349
Publication status	Published - 2018
Event	Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII - Austin, United States Duration: 10 Jun 2018 → 15 Jun 2018

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Conference	Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII
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Period	10/06/2018 → 15/06/2018

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Schipani, P., Campana, S., Claudi, R. U., Kaufl, H., Accardo, M., Hirvonen, M., Lehti, J., Kotilainen, J., Kumar, T., Achrén, J., Marafatto, L., Hershko, O., Aliverti, M., Baruffolo, A., Ben-ami, S., Biondi, F., Brucalassi, A., Capasso, G., Cosentino, R., ... Simard, L. (2018). SOXS: a wide band spectrograph to follow up transients. Proceedings of the SPIE, 10702. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2307349

Schipani, P, Campana, S, Claudi, RU, Kaufl, H, Accardo, M, Hirvonen, M, Lehti, J, Kotilainen, J, Kumar, T, Achrén, J, Marafatto, L, Hershko, O, Aliverti, M, Baruffolo, A, Ben-ami, S, Biondi, F, Brucalassi, A, Capasso, G, Cosentino, R, D'alessio, F, D'avanzo, P, Diner, O, Gardiol, D, Kuncarayacti, H, Munari, M, Rubin, A, Scuderi, S, Vitali, F, Araiza-durán, JA, Arcavi, I, Bianco, A, Cappellaro, E, Colapietro, M, Della Valle, M, D'orsi, S, Fantinel, D, Fynbo, J, Gal-yam, A, Genoni, M, Landoni, M, Li Causi, G, Loreggia, D, Mattila, S, Pariani, G, Pignata, G, Rappaport, M, Riva, M, Ricci, D, Salasnich, B, Smartt, S, Turatto, M, Zánmar Sánchez, R, Takami, H, Evans, CJ & Simard, L 2018, 'SOXS: a wide band spectrograph to follow up transients', Proceedings of the SPIE, vol. 10702. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2307349

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