The VIS detector system of SOXS

Cosentino, R.; Aliverti, Matteo; Scuderi, S.; Campana, S.; Claudi, R.; Schipani, P.; Baruffolo, A.; Ben-Ami, Sagi; Mehrgan, Leander; Ives, Derek; Biondi, Federico; Brucalassi, Anna; Capasso, Giulio; D’Alessio, F.; D’Avanzo, P.; Diner, O.; Kuncarayakti, H.; Munari, Matteo; Rubin, A.; Vitali, F.; Achrén, Jani; Araiza-Durán, José Antonio; Arcavi, I.; Bianco, Andrea; Colapietro, Mirko; Valle, M. Della; D’Orsi, Sergio; Fantinel, D.; Fynbo, J. P. U.; Gal‐Yam, A.; Genoni, Matteo; Hirvonen, M.; Kotilainen, Jari; Kumar, Tarun; Landoni, M.; Lehti, J.; Causi, G. Li; Marafatto, Luca; Mattila, S.; Pariani, Giorgio; Pignata, G.; Rappaport, Michael; Ricci, Davide; Riva, M.; Salasnich, Bernardo; Sánchez, Ricardo Zanmar; Smartt, S. J.; Turatto, M.

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“…After the completion of the instrument, the consortium will still be involved in the regular operation phase. Further details on specific subsystems can be found in [11]- [12] and [14]- [21].…”

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SOXS: a wide band spectrograph to follow up transients

Schipani

Campana

Claudi

et al. 2018

Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII

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SOXS (Son Of X-Shooter) will be a spectrograph for the ESO NTT telescope capable to cover the optical and NIR bands, based on the heritage of the X-Shooter at the ESO-VLT. SOXS will be built and run by an international consortium, carrying out rapid and longer term Target of Opportunity requests on a variety of astronomical objects. SOXS will observe all kind of transient and variable sources from different surveys. These will be a mixture of fast alerts (e.g. gamma-ray bursts, gravitational waves, neutrino events), mid-term alerts (e.g. supernovae, X-ray transients), fixed time events (e.g. close-by passage of minor bodies). While the focus is on transients and variables, still there is a wide range of other astrophysical targets and science topics that will benefit from SOXS. The design foresees a spectrograph 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. The limiting magnitude of R~20 (1 hr at S/N~10) is suited to study transients identified from on-going imaging surveys. Light imaging capabilities in the optical band (grizy) are also envisaged to allow for multi-band photometry of the faintest transients. This paper outlines the status of the project, now in Final Design Phase.

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SOXS: a wide band spectrograph to follow up transients

Schipani

Campana

Claudi

et al. 2018

Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII

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“…The CCD is model e2V CCD44-82 and will be operated at 170 K. The design of the UV-VIS detector system was described in a previous paper. 17 The progress on the detector system is reported in an accompanying paper in these proceedings. 9 The full assembly is shown in Figure 13 and is currently under test.…”

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Progress on the UV-VIS arm of SOXS

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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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“…Each quasi-order is diffracted by an ion-etched grating. The detector, located 4 mm behind the camera field flattener back surface, is an e2V CCD44-82 CCD (2048 x 4096 pixels, Pixel size 15 µm, see for details 10 ).…”

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SOXS end-to-end simulator: development and applications for pipeline design

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Landoni

Causi

et al. 2020

Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy IX

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We present the development of the End-to-End simulator for the SOXS instrument at the ESO-NTT 3.5-m telescope. SOXS will be a spectroscopic facility, made by two arms high efficiency spectrographs, able to cover the spectral range 350-2000 nm with resolving power R≈4500. The E2E model allows to simulate the propagation of photons starting from the scientific target of interest up to the detectors. The outputs of the simulator are synthetic frames, which will be mainly exploited for optimizing the pipeline development and possibly assisting for proper alignment and integration phases in laboratory and at the telescope. In this paper, we will detail the architecture of the simulator and the computational model, which are strongly characterized by modularity and flexibility. Synthetic spectral formats, related to different seeing and observing conditions, and calibration frames to be ingested by the pipeline are also presented.

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The VIS detector system of SOXS

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SOXS: a wide band spectrograph to follow up transients

SOXS: a wide band spectrograph to follow up transients

Progress on the UV-VIS arm of SOXS

SOXS end-to-end simulator: development and applications for pipeline design

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