A4 Refereed article in a conference publication
The mechanical design of SOXS for the NTT
Authors: M. Aliverti, O. Hershko, O. Diner, A. Brucalassi, G. Pignata, H. Kuncarayakti, A. Bianco, S. Campana, R. Claudi, P. Schipani, A. Baruffolo, S. Ben-Ami, F. Biondi, G. Capasso, R. Cosentino, F. D'Alessio, P. D'Avanzo, M. Munari, A. Rubin, S. Scuderi, F. Vitali, J. Achrén, J. A. Araiza-Duran, I. Arcavi, E. Cappellaro, M. Colapietro, M. Della Valle, S. D'Orsi, D. Fantinel, J. Fynbo, A. Gal-Yam, M. Genoni, M. Hirvonen, J. Kotilainen, T. Kumar, M. Landoni, J. Lehti, G. Li Causi, L. Marafatto, S. Mattila, G. Pariani, M. Rappaport, D. Ricci, M. Riva, B. Salasnich, S. Smartt, M. Turatto, R. Zanmar Sanchez
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: 13
ISBN: 978-1-5106-1957-9
ISSN: 0277-786X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2313404
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01589
SOXS (Son of X-shooter) is a wide band, medium resolution spectrograph
for the ESO NTT with a first light expected in early 2021. The
instrument will be composed by five semi-independent subsystems: a
pre-slit Common Path (CP), an Acquisition Camera (AC), a Calibration
Unit (CU), the NIR spectrograph, and the UV-VIS spectrograph. In this
paper, we present the mechanical design of the subsystems, the kinematic
mounts developed to simplify the final integration procedure and the
maintenance. The concept of the CP and NIR optomechanical mounts
developed for a simple pre- alignment procedure and for the thermal
compensation of reflective and refractive elements will be shown.
