MITS: The multi-imaging transient spectrograph for SOXS
: 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
: Christopher J. Evans, Luc Simard, Hideki Takami
: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation
Publisher: SPIE
: 2018
: Proceedings of SPIE : the International Society for Optical Engineering
: Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII
: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
: 10702
: 15
: 978-1-5106-1957-9
: 0277-786X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2313338
: 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.
