A4 Refereed article in a conference publication
Walking with SOXS towards the transient sky
Authors: Schipani, P.; Campana, S.; Claudi, R.; Aliverti, M.; Baruffolo, A.; Ben-Ami, S.; Capasso, G.; Colapietro, M.; Cosentino, R.; DAlessio, F.; DAvanzo, P.; Genoni, M.; Hershko, O.; Kuncarayakti, H.; Landoni, M.; Munari, M.; Pignata, G.; Radhakrishnan, K.; Ricci, D.; Rubin, A.; Scuderi, S.; Vitali, F.; Young, D.; Accardo, M.; Achren, J.; Araiza-Duran, J. A.; Arcavi, I; Asquini, L.; Battaini, F.; Bichkovsky, A.; Brucalassi, A.; Bruch, R.; Cabona, L.; Cappellaro, E.; Della Valle, M.; Di Filippo, S.; Di Benedetto, R.; DOrsi, S.; Gal-Yam, A.; Hernandez, M.; Ives, D.; Kaeufl, H-U; Kotilainen, J.; Li Causi, G.; Lessio, L.; Marty, L.; Mattila, S.; Mehrgan, L.; Pasquini, L.; Pompei, E.; Rappaport, M.; Riva, M.; Salasnich, B.; Savarese, S.; Saviane, I; Schoeller, M.; Silber, A.; Smartt, S.; Sanchez, R. Zanmar; Stritzinger, M.; Sulich, A.; Ventura, H.
Editors: Bryant, Julia J.; Motohara, Kentaro; Vernet, Joël R. D.
Conference name: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation
Publisher: SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING
Publishing place: BELLINGHAM
Publication year: 2024
Journal: Proceedings of SPIE : the International Society for Optical Engineering
Book title : Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X
Journal acronym: PROC SPIE
Article number: 130961T
Series title: Proceedings of SPIE
Volume: 13096
Number of pages: 10
ISBN: 978-1-5106-7515-5
eISBN: 978-1-5106-7516-2
ISSN: 0277-786X
eISSN: 1996-756X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3019809(external)
Web address : https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3019809(external)
Preprint address: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.17241(external)
SOXS (Son Of X-Shooter) is the new ESO instrument that is going to be installed on the 3.58-m New Technology Telescope at the La Silla Observatory. SOXS is a single object spectrograph offering a wide simultaneous spectral coverage from U- to H-band. Although such an instrument may have potentially a large variety of applications, the consortium designed it with a clear science case: it is going to provide the spectroscopic counterparts to the ongoing and upcoming imaging surveys, becoming one of the main follow-up instruments in the Southern hemisphere for the classification and characterization of transients. The NTT+SOXS system is specialized to observe all transients and variable sources discovered by imaging surveys with a flexible schedule maintained by the consortium, based on a remote scheduler which will interface with the observatory software infrastructure. SOXS is realized timely to be highly synergic with transients discovery machines like the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. The instrument has been integrated and tested in Italy, collecting and assembling subsystems coming from all partners spread over six countries in three continents. The first preparatory activities in Chile have been completed at the telescope. This article gives an updated status of the project before the shipping of the instrument to Chile.
