Final alignment and image quality test for the acquisition and guiding system of SOXS

José A. Araiza-Durán; Giuliano Pignata; Anna Brucalassi; Matteo Aliverti; Federico Battaini; Kalyan Radhakrishnan; Simone Di Filippo; Luigi Lessio; Riccardo Claudi; Davide Ricci; Mirko Colapietro; Rosario Cosentino; Sergio D'Orsi; Matteo Munari; Marco Dima; Pietro Schipani; Sergio Campana; Andrea Baruffolo; Ricardo Zanmar Sánchez; Marco Riva; Matteo Genoni; Sagi Ben-Ami; Adam Rubin; Rachel Bruch; Giulio Capasso; Francesco D'Alessio; Paolo D'Avanzo; Ofir Hershko; Hanindyo Kuncarayakti; Marco Landoni; Salvatore Scuderi; Fabrizio Vitali; David Young; Jani Achrén; Iair Arcavi; Enrico Cappellaro; Massimo Della Valle; Rosario Di Benedetto; Avishay Gal-Yam; Marcos Hernandez Diaz; Jari Kotilainen; Gianluca Li Causi; Laurent Marty; Seppo Mattila; Michael Rappaport; Bernardo Salasnich; Stephen Smartt; Maximilian Stritzinger; Hector Perez Ventura; Laura Asquini; Alex Bichkovsky; Salvatore Savarese; Lorenzo Cabona

doi:10.1117/12.3019190

18 July 2024 Final alignment and image quality test for the acquisition and guiding system of SOXS

José A. Araiza-Durán, Giuliano Pignata, Anna Brucalassi, Matteo Aliverti, Federico Battaini, Kalyan Radhakrishnan, Simone Di Filippo, Luigi Lessio, Riccardo Claudi, Davide Ricci, Mirko Colapietro, Rosario Cosentino, Sergio D'Orsi, Matteo Munari, Marco Dima, Pietro Schipani, Sergio Campana, Andrea Baruffolo, Ricardo Zanmar Sánchez, Marco Riva, Matteo Genoni, Sagi Ben-Ami, Adam Rubin, Rachel Bruch, Giulio Capasso, Francesco D'Alessio, Paolo D'Avanzo, Ofir Hershko, Hanindyo Kuncarayakti, Marco Landoni, Salvatore Scuderi, Fabrizio Vitali, David Young, Jani Achrén, Iair Arcavi, Enrico Cappellaro, Massimo Della Valle, Rosario Di Benedetto, Avishay Gal-Yam, Marcos Hernandez Diaz, Jari Kotilainen, Gianluca Li Causi, Laurent Marty, Seppo Mattila, Michael Rappaport, Bernardo Salasnich, Stephen Smartt, Maximilian Stritzinger, Hector Perez Ventura, Laura Asquini, Alex Bichkovsky, Salvatore Savarese, Lorenzo Cabona

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Proceedings Volume 13096, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X; 1309672 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3019190
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2024, Yokohama, Japan

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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.

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José A. Araiza-Durán, Giuliano Pignata, Anna Brucalassi, Matteo Aliverti, Federico Battaini, Kalyan Radhakrishnan, Simone Di Filippo, Luigi Lessio, Riccardo Claudi, Davide Ricci, Mirko Colapietro, Rosario Cosentino, Sergio D'Orsi, Matteo Munari, Marco Dima, Pietro Schipani, Sergio Campana, Andrea Baruffolo, Ricardo Zanmar Sánchez, Marco Riva, Matteo Genoni, Sagi Ben-Ami, Adam Rubin, Rachel Bruch, Giulio Capasso, Francesco D'Alessio, Paolo D'Avanzo, Ofir Hershko, Hanindyo Kuncarayakti, Marco Landoni, Salvatore Scuderi, Fabrizio Vitali, David Young, Jani Achrén, Iair Arcavi, Enrico Cappellaro, Massimo Della Valle, Rosario Di Benedetto, Avishay Gal-Yam, Marcos Hernandez Diaz, Jari Kotilainen, Gianluca Li Causi, Laurent Marty, Seppo Mattila, Michael Rappaport, Bernardo Salasnich, Stephen Smartt, Maximilian Stritzinger, Hector Perez Ventura, Laura Asquini, Alex Bichkovsky, Salvatore Savarese, and Lorenzo Cabona "Final alignment and image quality test for the acquisition and guiding system of SOXS", Proc. SPIE 13096, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X, 1309672 (18 July 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3019190

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