A4 Refereed article in a conference publication
Final alignment and image quality test for the acquisition and guiding system of SOXS
Authors: Araiza-Durán, José A.; Pignata, Giuliano; Brucalassi, Anna; Aliverti, Matteo; Battaini, Federico; Radhakrishnan, Kalyan; Di Filippo, Simone; Lessio, Luigi; Claudi, Riccardo; Ricci, Davide; Colapietro, Mirko; Cosentino, Rosario; D'Orsi, Sergio; Munari, Matteo; Dima, Marco; Schipani, Pietro; Campana, Sergio; Baruffolo, Andrea; Zanmar Sánchez, Ricardo; Riva, Marco; Genoni, Matteo; Ben-Ami, Sagi; Rubin, Adam; Bruch, Rachel; Capasso, Giulio; D'Alessio, Francesco; D'Avanzo, Paolo; Hershko, Ofir; Kuncarayakti, Hanindyo; Landoni, Marco; Scuderi, Salvatore; Vitali, Fabrizio; Young, David; Achrén, Jani; Arcavi, Iair; Cappellaro, Enrico; Della Valle, Massimo; Di Benedetto, Rosario; Gal-Yam, Avishay; Hernandez Diaz, Marcos; Kotilainen, Jari; Li Causi, Gianluca; Marty, Laurent; Mattila, Seppo; Rappaport, Michael; Salasnich, Bernardo; Smartt, Stephen; Stritzinger, Maximilian; Perez Ventura, Hector; Asquini, Laura; Bichkovsky, Alex; Savarese, Salvatore; Cabona, Lorenzo
Editors: Bryant, Julia J.; Motohara, Kentaro; Vernet, Joël R. D.
Conference name: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation
Publisher: SPIE
Publication year: 2024
Journal: Proceedings of SPIE : the International Society for Optical Engineering
Book title : Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X
Journal name in source: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Article number: 1309672
Volume: 13096
ISBN: 978-1-5106-7515-5
eISBN: 978-1-5106-7516-2
ISSN: 0277-786X
eISSN: 1996-756X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3019190
Web address : https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3019190
SOXS (Son Of X-Shooter) will be the new medium-resolution (R 4500 for 1” slit), high-efficiency, wide-band spectrograph for the ESO NTT at La Silla Observatory, Chile. It will be dedicated to the follow-up of any kind of transient events, ensuring fast time, high efficiency, and availability. It consists of a central structure (common path) that supports two spectrographs optimized for the UV-Visible and a Near-Infrared range. Attached to the common path is the Acquisition and Guiding Camera system (AC), equipped with a filter wheel that can provide science-grade imaging and moderate high-speed photometry. The AC Unit was integrated and aligned during the summer months of 2022 and has since been mounted in the NTT’s telescope simulator. This work gives an update on the Acquisition Camera Unit status, describes the Image Quality Tests that were performed, and discusses the AC Optical Performance.
