A4 Refereed article in a conference publication
MITS: The multi-imaging transient spectrograph for SOXS
Authors: Adam Rubin, Sagi Ben-Ami, Ofir Hershko, Michael Rappaport, Oz Diner, Avishay Gal-Yam, Sergio Campana, Riccardo Claudi, Pietro Schipani, Matteo Aliverti, Andrea Baruffolo, Federico Biondi, Anna Brucalassi, Giulio Capasso, Rosario Cosentino, Francesco D'Alessio, Paolo D'Avanzo, Hanindyo Kuncarayakti, Matteo Munari, Salvatore Scuderi, Fabrizio Vitali, Jani Achrén, José Antonio Araiza-Duran, Iair Arcavi, Andrea Bianco, Enrico Cappellaro, Mirko Colapietro, Massimo Della Valle, Sergio D'Orsi, Daniela Fantinel, Johan Fynbo, Matteo Genoni, Mika Hirvonen, Jari Kotilainen, Tarun Kumar, Marco Landoni, Jussi Lehti, Gianluca Li Causi, Luca Marafatto, Seppo Mattila, Giorgio Pariani, Giuliano Pignata, Davide Ricci, Marco Riva, Bernardo Salasnich, Ricardo Zanmar Sanchez, Stephen Smartt, Massimo Turatto
Editors: Christopher J. Evans, Luc Simard, Hideki Takami
Conference name: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation
Publisher: SPIE
Publication year: 2018
Journal: Proceedings of SPIE : the International Society for Optical Engineering
Book title : Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII
Journal name in source: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume: 10702
Number of pages: 15
ISBN: 978-1-5106-1957-9
ISSN: 0277-786X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2313338
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01522
The Son Of X-Shooter (SOXS)1 is a medium resolution spectrograph (R ~
4500) proposed for the ESO 3.6m NTT. We present the optical design of
the UV-VIS arm of SOXS which employs high efficiency ion-etched gratings
used in first order (m = 1) as the main dispersers. The spectral band
is split into four channels which are directed to individual gratings,
and imaged simultaneously by a single three-element catadioptric camera.
The expected throughput of our design is > 60% including
contingency. The SOXS collaboration expects first light in early 2021.
This paper is one of several papers presented in these proceedings2-10 describing the full SOXS instrument.
