The AIV strategy of the Common Path of Son of X-Shooter

TL;DR

This paper discusses the alignment strategy and initial results for the Common Path subsystem of the Son Of X-Shooter spectrograph, highlighting its modular design and integration approach.

Contribution

It presents the alignment procedure and preliminary results for the Common Path subsystem of SOXS, demonstrating the feasibility of meeting opto-mechanical requirements.

Findings

Successful preliminary alignment achieved

Alignment strategy effectively meets design requirements

Modular approach facilitates subsystem integration

Abstract

Son Of X-Shooter (SOXS) is a double-armed (UV-VIS, NIR) spectrograph designed to be mounted at the ESO-NTT in La Silla, now in its Assembly Integration and Verification (AIV) phase. The instrument is designed following a modular approach so that each sub-system can be integrated in parallel before their assembly at system level. INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova will deliver the Common Path (CP) sub-system, which represents the backbone of the entire instrument. In this paper, we describe the foreseen operation for the CP alignment and we report some results already achieved, showing that we envisaged the suitable setup and the strategy to meet the opto-mechanical requirements.