The acquisition camera system for SOXS at NTT

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

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Abstract

SOXS (Son of X-Shooter) will be the new medium resolution (R∼4500 for a 1 arcsec slit), high-efficiency, wide band spectrograph for the ESO-NTT telescope on La Silla. It will be able to cover simultaneously optical and NIR bands (350-2000nm) using two different arms and a pre-slit Common Path feeding system. SOXS will provide an unique facility to follow up any kind of transient event with the best possible response time in addition to high efficiency and availability. Furthermore, a Calibration Unit and an Acquisition Camera System with all the necessary relay optics will be connected to the Common Path sub-system. The Acquisition Camera, working in optical regime, will be primarily focused on target acquisition and secondary guiding, but will also provide an imaging mode for scientific photometry. In this work we give an overview of the Acquisition Camera System for SOXS with all the different functionalities. The optical and mechanical design of the system are also presented together with the preliminary performances in terms of optical quality, throughput, magnitude limits and photometric properties.

Original languageEnglish
JournalProceedings of the SPIE
Volume10702
Pages (from-to)95
ISSN0277-786X
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018
EventGround-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII - Austin, United States
Duration: 10 Jun 201815 Jun 2018

Conference

ConferenceGround-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII
LocationAustin, United States
Period10/06/201815/06/2018

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