The making of the Son Of X-Shooter (SOXS)

by Kalyan Radhakrishnan (INAF/OAPD)

Thursday 13 Jul 2023, 11:30 → 12:30 Europe/Rome

Sala Jappelli (Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova)

The Son Of X-Shooter (SOXS) is a single object spectrograph offering simultaneous spectral coverage in UV-VIS (350-850 nm) and NIR (800-2000 nm) wavelength regimes with an average of R∼4500 for a 1” slit. SOXS also has imaging capabilities in the visible wavelength regime. It is designed and optimized to observe transients and variable sources. The final destination of SOXS is the Nasmyth platform of the ESO NTT at La Silla, Chile. 

The SOXS consortium has a relatively large geographic spread; therefore, the Assembly Integration and Verification (AIV) of this medium-class instrument follows a modular approach. Each of the five main sub-systems of SOXS, namely the Common Path, the Calibration Unit, the Acquisition Camera, the UV-VIS Spectrograph, and the NIR Spectrograph, have completed the internal alignment. Four of the sub-systems are already in INAF-Padova, where we are carrying out the complete integration and system level tests of the instrument. 

In this talk, I will present an overview of the SOXS instrument, focusing mainly on the instrumentation perspective, the AIVT phase, and eventual installation and commissioning at the NTT, La Silla, Chile.

 

Link alla videochiamata: https://meet.google.com/smz-nwhp-roh

 

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