A4 Refereed article in a conference publication
From Assembly to the Complete Integration and Verification of the SOXS Common Path
Authors: Santhakumari KKR, Battaini F, Claudi R, Slemer A, Biondi F, Munari M, Sanchez RZ, Aliverti M, Oggioni L, Colapietro M, Ricci D, Lessio L, Dima M, Marafatto L, Farinato J, Campana S, Schipani P, D'Orsi S, Salasnich B, Baruffolo A, Ben-Amif S, Capasso G, Cosentino R, D'Alessio F, D'Avanzo P, Hershko O, Kuncarayakti H, Landoni M, Pignata G, Rubin A, Scuderi S, Vitali F, Young D, Achren J, Araiza-Duran JA, Arcavi I, Brucalassi A, Bruch R, Cappellaro E, Della Valle M, Di Benedetto R, Gal-Yam A, Genoni M, Hernandez M, Kotilainen J, Causi GL, Marty L, Mattila S, Rappaport M, Riva M, Smartt S, Stritzingerv M, Venturae H
Editors: Christopher J. Evans, Julia J. Bryant, Kentaro Motohara
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
Article number: 1218482
Series title: Proceedings of SPIE : the International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume: 12184
First page : 1218482
Number of pages: 8
ISSN: 0277-786X
eISSN: 1996-756X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2629962
Web address : https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2629962
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 similar to 4500 for a 1 '' slit. SOXS also has imaging capabilities in the visible wavelength regime. It is designed and optimized to observe all kinds of 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, and 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, are undergoing (or undergone) internal alignment and testing in the respective consortium institutes. INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova delivers the Common Path sub-system, the backbone of the entire instrument. We report the Common Path internal alignment starting from the assembly of the individual components to the final testing of the optical quality, and the efficiency of the complete sub-system.
