The integration and alignment phase for the acquisition and guiding system of SOXS

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

doi:10.1117/12.2630001

29 August 2022 The integration and alignment phase for the acquisition and guiding system of SOXS

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

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Proceedings Volume 12184, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX; 1218483 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630001
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2022, Montréal, Québec, Canada

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SOXS (Son Of X-Shooter) will be the new double-armed spectrograph for the ESO NTT at La Silla and it will be optimized to provide an unique specialized facility to follow up and classify any kind of transient events. It consists of a central structure (common path) which supports two spectrographs optimized for the UV-Visible and a Near-IR range. Attached to the common path there is the Acquisition and Guiding Camera System (ACS), equipped with a filter wheel which can provide some science grade imaging and moderate high speed photometry. The project is currently in its Assembly Integration and Verification phase following a modular approach so that each sub-system can be integrated in parallel before their final assembly at system level, foreseen at the INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova (Italy). The optics and the mechanical parts of the ACS arrived in the second semester of 2021, so from that moment the Assembly and Verification Phase began. This work presents the assembly and testing operation of the ACS of SOXS and we report the strategy and the results achieved to meet the requirements.

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José A. Araiza-Durán, Giuliano Pignata, Anna Brucalassi, Federico Battaini, Kalyan Radhakrishnan, Riccardo Claudi, Sergio Campana, Pietro Schipani, Matteo Aliverti, Andrea Baruffolo, Sagi Ben-Ami, Giulio Capasso, Rosario Cosentino, Francesco D'Alessio, Paolo D'Avanzo, Ofir Hershko, Hanindyo Kuncarayakti, Marco Landoni, Matteo Munari, Adam Rubin, Salvatore Scuderi, Fabrizio Vitali, David Young, Jani Achrén, Iair Arcavi, Rachel Bruch, Enrico Cappellaro, Mirko Colapietro, Massimo Della Valle, Rosario Di Benedetto, Sergio D'Orsi, Avishay Gal-Yam, Matteo Genoni, Marcos Hernandez Díaz, Jari Kotilainen, Gianluca Li Causi, Laurent Marty, Seppo Mattila, Michael Rappaport, Davide Ricci, Marco Riva, Bernardo Salasnich, Stephen Smartt, Ricardo Zanmar Sanchez, Maximilian Stritzinger, and Hector Pérez Ventura "The integration and alignment phase for the acquisition and guiding system of SOXS", Proc. SPIE 12184, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX, 1218483 (29 August 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630001

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