Development status of the SOXS instrument control software

The forthcoming SOXS (Son Of X-Shooter) will be a new spectroscopic facility for the ESO New Technology Telescope in La Silla, focused on transient events and able to cover both the UV-VIS and NIR bands. The instrument passed the Final Design Review in 2018 and is currently in manufacturing and integration phase. This paper is focused on the assembly and testing of the instrument control electronics, which will manage all the motorized functions, alarms, sensors, and electric interlocks. The electronics is hosted in two main control cabinets, divided in several subracks that are assembled to ensure easy accessibility and transportability, to simplify test, integration and maintenance. Both racks are equipped with independent power supply distribution and have their own integrated cooling systems. This paper shows the assembly strategy, reports on the development status and describes the tests performed to verify the system before the integration into the whole instrument.

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“…A dedicated Micronix controller controls the stage positioning. Commands are sent from the PLC through a RS-485 serial connection [16] .…”

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“…Two dedicated controllers drive two pairs of tip-tilt Physik Instrumente piezo actuators. The main PLC manages the tip-tilt positioning, sending commands through a RS-232 serial connection [16] .…”

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confidence: 99%

Progress and tests on the instrument control electronics for SOXS

Colapietro

Capasso

D’Orsi

et al. 2020

Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VI

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“…Testing of the controller and of the NIR slit exchanger have been carried in Padua Observatory (INAF-OAPD), see [8] for details.…”

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The development status of the NIR Arm of the new SoXS instrument at the ESO/NTT telescope

Vitali

Aliverti

Capasso

et al. 2020

Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII

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We present here the development status of the NIR spectrograph of the Son Of X-Shooter (SOXS) instrument, for the ESO/NTT telescope at La Silla (Chile). SOXS is a R~4,500 mean resolution spectrograph, with a simultaneously coverage from about 0.35 to 2.00 m. It will be mounted at the Nasmyth focus of the NTT. The two UV-VIS-NIR wavelength ranges will be covered by two separated arms. The NIR spectrograph is a fully cryogenic echelle-dispersed spectrograph, working in the range 0.80-2.00 m, equipped with a Hawaii H2RG IR array from Teledyne. The whole spectrograph will be cooled down to about 150 K (but the array at 40 K), to lower the thermal background, and equipped with a thermal filter to block any thermal radiation above 2.0 m. In this work, we will show the advanced phase of integration of the NIR spectrograph.

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“…SOXS is comprised of a common path, which splits the incoming light to a UV-VIS arm (0.35 − 0.85 µm) and a NIR arm (0.8 − 2.0 µm), an acquisition camera, and a calibration unit-all of which are described in other papers in these proceedings. [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] The visual arm has a novel design, which was described in our previous paper. 16 The beam is divided into four bands and imaged by a single camera.…”

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Progress on the UV-VIS arm of SOXS

Rubin

Ben-Ami

Hershko

et al. 2020

Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII

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We present our progress on the UV-VIS arm of Son Of X-Shooter (SOXS), a new spectrograph for the NTT. Our design splits the spectral band into four sub-bands that are imaged onto a single detector. Each band uses an optimized high efficiency grating that operates in 1st order (m=1). In our previous paper we presented the concept and preliminary design. SOXS passed a Final Design Review in July 2018 and is well into the construction *

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Development status of the SOXS instrument control software

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Progress and tests on the instrument control electronics for SOXS

Progress and tests on the instrument control electronics for SOXS

The development status of the NIR Arm of the new SoXS instrument at the ESO/NTT telescope

Progress on the UV-VIS arm of SOXS

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