What is your favorite transient event? SOXS is almost ready to observe!
Kalyan Kumar Radhakrishnan Santhakumari, Federico Battaini, Simone Di, Filippo, Silvio Di Rosa, Lorenzo Cabona, Riccardo Claudi, Luigi Lessio, Marco, Dima, David Young, Marco Landoni, Mirko Colapietro, Sergio D'Orsi, Matteo, Aliverti, Matteo Genoni, Matteo Munari
TL;DR
SOXS is a new spectrograph being integrated at the ESO NTT, designed to observe transient astronomical events with broad spectral coverage and imaging capabilities, aiming for acceptance testing in Europe.
Contribution
This paper reports on the integration and verification process of the SOXS instrument for observing transient events.
Findings
SOXS is nearing readiness for observational use.
The instrument offers simultaneous UV-VIS and NIR spectral coverage.
Integration and verification processes are progressing successfully.
Abstract
The Son Of X-Shooter (SOXS) will be the specialized facility to observe any transient event with a flexible scheduler at the ESO New Technology Telescope (NTT) at La Silla, Chile. SOXS is a single object spectrograph offering simultaneous spectral coverage in UV-VIS (350-850 nm) and NIR (800-2000 nm) wavelength regimes with an average of R~4500 for a 1arcsec slit. SOXS also has imaging capabilities in the visible wavelength regime. Currently, SOXS is being integrated at the INAF-Astronomical Observatory of Padova. Subsystem- and system-level tests and verification are ongoing to ensure and confirm that every requirement and performance are met. In this paper, we report on the integration and verification of SOXS as the team and the instrument prepare for the Preliminary Acceptance Europe (PAE).
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