Progress on the UV-VIS arm of SOXS

Rubin, A.; Ben-Ami, Sagi; Hershko, Ofir; Rappaport, Michael; Gal‐Yam, A.; Bruch, R.; Campana, S.; Claudi, R.; Schipani, P.; Aliverti, Matteo; Baruffolo, A.; Biondi, Federico; Capasso, Giulio; Cosentino, R.; D’Alessio, F.; D’Avanzo, P.; Kuncarayakti, H.; Landoni, Marco; Munari, Matteo; Pignata, G.; Scuderi, S.; Vitali, F.; Young, D. R.; Achrén, Jani; Araiza-Durán, José Antonio; Arcavi, I.; Brucalassi, Anna; Colapietro, Mirko; Valle, M. Della; Pascale, Marco De; Benedetto, Rosario Di; D’Orsi, Sergio; Flügel-Paul, Thomas; Genoni, Matteo; Hernandez, Marcos; Kotilainen, Jari; Causi, G. Li; Mattila, S.; Radhakrishnan, Kalyan; Ricci, Davide; Riva, M.; Sadlowski, Susann; Salasnich, Bernardo; Smartt, S. J.; Sánchez, Ricardo Zanmar; Stritzinger, Maximilian; Ventura, H. Pérez

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“…The spectral band is split into four poly-chromatic channels and sent to their specific grating. 19 Unlike the NIR arm, the UV-VIS arm will include an Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector (ADC). Each of the four dispersion orders are imaged to separate areas of the e2V CCD and aligned linearly along the direction of the CCD columns (see Figure 2).…”

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The Son-Of-X-Shooter (SOXS) data-reduction pipeline

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Landoni

Smartt

et al. 2022

Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VII

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The Son-Of-XShooter (SOXS) is a single object spectrograph (UV-VIS & NIR) and acquisition camera scheduled to be mounted on the European Southern Observatory (ESO) 3.58-m New Technology Telescope at the La Silla Observatory. Although the underlying data reduction processes to convert raw detector data to fully-reduced science ready data are complex and multi-stepped, we have designed the SOXS Data Reduction pipeline with the core aims of providing end-users with a simple-to-use, well-documented command-line interface while also allowing the pipeline to be run in a fully automated state; streaming reduced data into the ESO Science Archive Facility (SAF) without need for human intervention. To keep up with the stream of data coming from the instrument, there is the requirement to optimise the software to reduce each observation block of data well within the typical observation exposure time. The pipeline is written in Python 3 and has been built with an agile development philosophy that includes CI and adaptive planning.

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The Son-Of-X-Shooter (SOXS) data-reduction pipeline

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Landoni

Smartt

et al. 2022

Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VII

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“…The UV-VIS spectrograph, shown in Figure 13, is directly connected to the interface flange via three large kinematic mounts. More details on this subsystem can be found in [5] and [6]. Another notable interface is the 90° Johnston coupling (dark red in Figure 13) used to transfer the liquid nitrogen from a tank to the CFC via a rotating LN2 line described in section 4.2.…”

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Manufacturing, integration, and mechanical verification of SOXS

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Oggioni

Genoni

et al. 2020

Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII

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SOXS (Son Of X-Shooter) is a medium resolution (~4500) wide-band (0.35 -2.0 µm) spectrograph which passed the Final Design Review in 2018. The instrument is planned to be installed at the NTT in La Silla and it is mainly composed by five different optomechanical subsystems (Common Path, NIR spectrograph, UV-VIS spectrograph, Camera, and Calibration) and other mechanical subsystems (Interface flange, Platform, cable corotator, and cooling). It is currently in the procurement and integration phase. In this paper we present the post-FDR modifications in the mechanical design due to the various iterations with the manufacturers and the actual procurement status. The last part describes the strategy used to keep under control the mechanical interfaces between the subsystems.

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“…To accomplish this task SOXS, that is based on the heritage of the X-Shooter at the ESO-VLT, has two arms, the UV-VIS [2] and NIR spectrograph [3] working in parallel, that need to be operated at cryogenic temperatures. In particular, in the case of the UV-VIS spectrograph the CCD detector has to operated at 173 K while in the case of the NIR spectrograph the optical bench and the optics are kept to 150 K while the detector has an operating temperature of 40 K.…”

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The vacuum and cryogenics system of the SOXS spectrograph

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Micciché

Benedetto

et al. 2022

Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation V

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SOXS (Son Of X-Shooter) is a single object spectrograph built by an international consortium for the ESO NTT telescope. SOXS is based on the heritage of the X-Shooter at the ESO-VLT with two arms (UV-VIS and NIR) working in parallel, with a Resolution-Slit product ≈ 4500, capable of simultaneously observing over the entire band the complete spectral range from the U-to the H-band. SOXS will carry out rapid and long-term Target of Opportunity requests on a variety of astronomical objects.The SOXS vacuum and cryogenic control system has been designed to evacuate, cool down and maintain the UV-VIS detector and the entire NIR spectrograph to their operating temperatures. The design chosen allows the two arms to be operated independently. This paper describes the final design of the cryo-vacuum control system, its functionalities and the tests performed in the integration laboratories.

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Progress on the UV-VIS arm of SOXS

Cited by 13 publications

References 15 publications

The Son-Of-X-Shooter (SOXS) data-reduction pipeline

The Son-Of-X-Shooter (SOXS) data-reduction pipeline

Manufacturing, integration, and mechanical verification of SOXS

The vacuum and cryogenics system of the SOXS spectrograph

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