Refereed article in conference proceedings (A4)
The integration and alignment phase for the Acquisition and Guiding System of SOXS
List of Authors: Araiza-Duran JA, Pignata G, Brucalassi A, Battaini F, Radhakrishnan K, Claudi R, Campana S, Schipani P, 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, Rubin A, Scuderi S, Vitali F, Young D, Achren J, Arcavi I, Bruch R, Cappellaro E, Colapietro M, Della Valle M, Di Benedetto R, D'Orsi S, Gal-Yam A, Genoni M, Diaz MH, Kotilainen J, Li Causi G, Marty L, Mattila S, Rappaport M, Ricci D, Riva M, Salasnich B, Smartt S, Sanchez RZ, Stritzinger M, Ventura HP
Conference name: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation
Publisher: SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING, PO BOX 10, BELLINGHAM, WA 98227-0010 USA
Publication year: 2022
Journal: Proceedings of SPIE : the International Society for Optical Engineering
Book title *: Proceedings of SPIE: Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX
Journal name in source: GROUND-BASED AND AIRBORNE INSTRUMENTATION FOR ASTRONOMY IX
Journal acronym: PROC SPIE
Title of series: Proceedings of SPIE : the International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume number: 12184
Start page: 1218483
Number of pages: 8
ISSN: 0277-786X
eISSN: 1996-756X
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2630001
URL: https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630001
SOXS (Son Of X-Shooter) will be the new double-armed spectrograph for the ESO NTT at La Silla and it will be optimized to provide an unique specialized facility to follow up and classify any kind of transient events. It consists of a central structure (common path) which supports two spectrographs optimized for the UV-Visible and a Near-IR range. Attached to the common path there is the Acquisition and Guiding Camera System (ACS), equipped with a filter wheel which can provide some science grade imaging and moderate high speed photometry. The project is currently in its Assembly Integration and Verification phase following a modular approach so that each sub-system can be integrated in parallel before their final assembly at system level, foreseen at the INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova (Italy). The optics and the mechanical parts of the ACS arrived in the second semester of 2021, so from that moment the Assembly and Verification Phase began. This work presents the assembly and testing operation of the ACS of SOXS and we report the strategy and the results achieved to meet the requirements.
