The mechanical design of SOXS for the NTT
: 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
: 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
: 13
: 978-1-5106-1957-9
: 0277-786X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2313404
: 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.
