Progress on the SOXS transients chaser for the ESO-NTT




Schipani P, Campana S, Claudi R, Aliverti M, Baruffolo A, Ben-Ami S, Capasso G, Cosentino R, D'Alessio F, D'Avanzo P, Hershko O, Kuncarayakti H, Landoni M, Munari M, Pignata G, Radhakrishnan K, Rubino A, Scuderi S, Vitali F, Young D, Achren J, Araiza-Duran JA, Arcavi I, Battaini F, Brucalassi A, Bruch R, Cappellaro E, Colapietro M, Della Valle M, Di Benedetto R, D'Orsi S, Gal-Yam A, Genoni M, Hernandez M, Kotilainen J, Causi GL, Lessio L, Marty L, Mattila S, Rappaport M, Ricci D, Riva M, Salasnich B, Savarese S, Smartt S, Sanchez RZ, Stritzinger M, Umbriaco G, Ventura H, Pasquini L, Scholler M, Kaufl HU, Accardo M, Mehrgan L, Pompei E, Saviane I

Christopher J. Evans, Julia J. Bryant, Kentaro Motohara

SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation

PublisherSPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING, PO BOX 10, BELLINGHAM, WA 98227-0010 USA

2022

Proceedings of SPIE : the International Society for Optical Engineering

Proceedings of SPIE: Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX

GROUND-BASED AND AIRBORNE INSTRUMENTATION FOR ASTRONOMY IX

PROC SPIE

121840O

Proceedings of SPIE : the International Society for Optical Engineering

12184

121840O

9

0277-786X

1996-756X

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1117/12.2628329

https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2628329



SOXS (Son Of X-Shooter) is a single object spectrograph offering a simultaneous spectral coverage from U- to H-band, built by an international consortium for the 3.58-m ESO New Technology Telescope at the La Silla Observatory. It is designed to observe all kind of transients and variable sources discovered by different surveys with a highly flexible schedule maintained by the consortium, based on the Target of Opportunity concept. SOXS is going to be a fundamental spectroscopic partner for any kind of imaging survey, becoming one of the premier transient follow-up instruments in the Southern hemisphere. This paper gives an updated status of the project, when the instrument is in the advanced phase of integration and testing in Europe, prior to the activities in Chile.



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