Publications (35)
The SOXS Spectrograph Instrument Control Software
Davide Ricci, Bernardo Salasnich, Andrea Baruffolo +51
SOXS (Son Of X-Shooter) is a new spectrograph for the European Southern Observatory (ESO), recently installed at the New Technology Telescope (NTT) at the La Silla Observatory, Chi…
The SOXS Instrument Control Software approaching the PAE
Davide Ricci, Bernardo Salasnich, Andrea Baruffolo +50
The Instrument Control Software of SOXS (Son Of X-Shooter), the forthcoming spectrograph for the ESO New Technology Telescope at the La Silla Observatory, has reached a mature stat…
The hydrogen-poor superluminous supernova iPTF13ajg and its host galaxy in absorption and emission
Paul M. Vreeswijk, Sandra Savaglio, Avishay Gal-Yam +24
We present imaging and spectroscopy of a hydrogen-poor superluminous supernova (SLSN) discovered by the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory: iPTF13ajg. At a redshift of z=0.7403…
MITS: the Multi-Imaging Transient Spectrograph for SOXS
Adam Rubin, Sagi Ben-Ami, Ofir Hershko +45
The Son Of X-Shooter (SOXS) is a medium resolution spectrograph R~4500 proposed for the ESO 3.6 m NTT. We present the optical design of the UV-VIS arm of SOXS which employs high ef…
The status of the NIR arm of the SOXS Instrument toward the PAE
Fabrizio Vitali, Matteo Genoni, Matteo Aliverti +57
The Son Of X-Shooter (SOXS) is a single object spectrograph, built by an international consortium for the 3.58-m ESO New Technology Telescope at the La Silla Observatory [1]. It of…
SN 2018fif: The Explosion of a Large Red Supergiant Discovered in Its Infancy by the Zwicky Transient Facility
Maayane T. Soumagnac, Noam Ganot, Ido Irani +32
High cadence transient surveys are able to capture supernovae closer to their first light than before. Applying analytical models to such early emission, we can constrain the proge…
Exploring the efficacy and limitations of shock-cooling models: new analysis of Type II supernovae observed by the Kepler mission
Adam Rubin, Avishay Gal-Yam
Modern transient surveys have begun discovering and following supernovae (SNe) shortly after first light---providing systematic measurements of the rise of Type II SNe. We explore…
On the early-time excess emission in hydrogen-poor superluminous supernovae
Paul M. Vreeswijk, Giorgos Leloudas, Avishay Gal-Yam +27
We present the light curves of the hydrogen-poor superluminous supernovae (SLSNe-I) PTF12dam and iPTF13dcc, discovered by the (intermediate) Palomar Transient Factory. Both show ex…
Type II supernova energetics and comparison of light curves to shock-cooling models
Adam Rubin, Avishay Gal-Yam, Annalisa De Cia +37
During the first few days after explosion, Type II supernovae (SNe) are dominated by relatively simple physics. Theoretical predictions regarding early-time SN light curves in the…
Beam Studies of the Segmented Resistive WELL: a Potential Thin Sampling Element for Digital Hadron Calorimetry
Lior Arazi, Carlos Davide Rocha Azevedo, Amos Breskin +9
Thick Gas Electron Multipliers (THGEMs) have the potential of constituting thin, robust sampling elements in Digital Hadron Calorimetry (DHCAL) in future colliders. We report on re…
The SOXS Data-Reduction Pipeline
David R. Young, Marco Landoni, Stephen J. Smartt +43
The SOXS is a dual-arm spectrograph (UV-VIS & NIR) and AC due to mounted on the ESO 3.6m NTT in La Silla. Designed to simultaneously cover the optical and NIR wavelength range from…
Design and development of the SOXS calibration unit
Hanindyo Kuncarayakti, Jani Achren, Sergio Campana +43
SOXS is a new spectrograph for the New Technology Telescope (NTT), optimized for transient and variable objects, covering a wide wavelength range from 350 to 2000 nm. SOXS is equip…
The Palomar Transient Factory Core-Collapse Supernova Host-Galaxy Sample. I. Host-Galaxy Distribution Functions and Environment-Dependence of CCSNe
Steve Schulze, Ofer Yaron, Jesper Sollerman +51
Several thousand core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) of different flavors have been discovered so far. However, identifying their progenitors has remained an outstanding open question…
Architecture of the SOXS instrument control software
Davide Ricci, Andrea Baruffolo, Bernardo Salasnich +45
SOXS (Son Of X-Shooter) is a new spectrograph for the ESO NTT telescope, currently in the final design phase. The main instrument goal is to allow the characterization of transient…
The SOXS scheduler for remote operation at LaSilla:Concept and design
Marco Landoni, Dave Young, Laurent Marty +46
In this paper we present the SOXS Scheduler, a web-based application aimed at optimising remote observations at the NTT-ESO in the context of scientific topics of both the SOXS Con…
Development status of the SOXS instrument control software
Davide Ricci, Andrea Baruffolo, Bernardo Salasnich +43
SOXS (Son Of X-Shooter) is a forthcoming instrument for ESO-NTT, mainly dedicated to the spectroscopic study of transient events and is currently starting the AIT (Assembly, Integr…
iPTF14yb: The First Discovery of a GRB Afterglow Independent of a High-Energy Trigger
S. Bradley Cenko, Alex L. Urban, Daniel A. Perley +34
We report here the discovery by the Intermediate Palomar Transient Factory (iPTF) of iPTF14yb, a luminous ( mag), cosmological (redshift 1.9733), rapidly fading…
Progress on the SOXS NIR Spectrograph AIT
Fabrizio Vitali, Matteo Aliverti, Francesco D'Alessio +50
The Son Of X-Shooter (SOXS) is a single object spectrograph, built by an international consortium for the 3.58-m ESO New Technology Telescope at the La Silla Observatory, ranging f…
Unsupervised clustering of Type II supernova light curves
Adam Rubin, Avishay Gal-Yam
As new facilities come online, the astronomical community will be provided with extremely large datasets of well-sampled light curves (LCs) of transient objects. This motivates sys…
SOXS AIT: a paradigm for system engineering of a medium class telescope instrument
Riccardo Claudi, Kalyan Radhakrishnan, Federico Battaini +40
SOXS (SOn of X-Shooter) is a high-efficiency spectrograph with a mean Resolution-Slit product of 3500 over the entire band capable of simultaneously observing the complete spectral…
The Son-Of-X-shooter (SOXS) Data-Reduction Pipeline
David R. Young, Marco Landoni, Stephen J. Smartt +43
The Son-Of-XShooter (SOXS) is a single object spectrograph (UV-VIS & NIR) and acquisition camera scheduled to be mounted on the ESO 3.58-m New Technology Telescope at the La Silla…
PTF11rka: an interacting supernova at the crossroads of stripped-envelope and H-poor super-luminous stellar core collapses
Elena Pian, Paolo A. Mazzali, Takashi J. Moriya +17
The hydrogen-poor supernova PTF11rka (z = 0.0744), reported by the Palomar Transient Factory, was observed with various telescopes starting a few days after the estimated explosion…
Automated scheduler for the SOXS instrument: design and performance
Laura Asquini, Marco Landoni, Dave Young +49
We present the advancements in the development of the scheduler for the Son Of X-shooter instrument at the ESO-NTT 3.58-m telescope in La Silla, Chile. SOXS is designed as a single…
Dynamic scheduling for SOXS instrument: environment, algorithms and development
Laura Asquini, Marco Landoni, Dave Young +47
We present development progress of the scheduler for the Son Of X-Shooter (SOXS) instrument at the ESO-NTT 3.58 meter telescope. SOXS will be a single object spectroscopic facility…
SOXS: Effects on optical performances due to gravity flexures, temperature variations, and subsystems alignment
Ricardo Zanmar Sanchez, Matteo Aliverti, Matteo Munari +43
SOXS (Son Of X-Shooter) is the new medium resolution wide-band spectrograph to be installed at the 3.6m New Technology Telescope (NTT) in La Silla. SOXS will offer simultaneous wav…
Optical design of the SOXS spectrograph for ESO NTT
Ricardo Zanmar Sanchez, Matteo Munari, Adam Rubin +45
An overview of the optical design for the SOXS spectrograph is presented. SOXS (Son Of X-Shooter) is the new wideband, medium resolution (R>4500) spectrograph for the ESO 3.58m NTT…
The AIV strategy of the Common Path of Son of X-Shooter
Federico Biondi, Kalyan Kumar Radhakrishnan Santhakumari, Riccardo Claudi +48
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…
What is your favorite transient event? SOXS is almost ready to observe!
Kalyan Kumar Radhakrishnan Santhakumari, Federico Battaini, Simone Di Filippo +56
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.…
The Quality Check system architecture for Son-Of-X-Shooter SOXS
Marco Landoni, Laurent Marty, Dave Young +47
We report the implemented architecture for monitoring the health and the quality of the Son Of X-Shooter (SOXS) spectrograph for the New Technology Telescope in La Silla at the Eur…
iPTF 16hgs: A double-peaked Ca-rich gap transient in a metal poor, star forming dwarf galaxy
Kishalay De, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Therese Cantwell +18
Calcium rich gap transients represent an intriguing new class of faint and fast evolving supernovae that exhibit strong [Ca II] emission in their nebular phase spectra. In this pap…
The VIS detector system of SOXS
Rosario Cosentino, Matteo Aliverti, Salvatore Scuderi +46
SOXS will be a unique spectroscopic facility for the ESO NTT telescope able to cover the optical and NIR bands thanks to two different arms: the UV-VIS (350-850 nm), and the NIR (8…
Laboratory test of the VIS detector system of SOXS for the ESO-NTT telescope
Rosario Cosentino, Marcos Hernandez, Hector Ventura +45
SOXS is the new spectrograph for the ESO NTT telescope able to cover the optical and NIR bands thanks to two different arms: the UV-VIS (350-850 nm), and the NIR (800-2000 nm). In…
Progress on the UV-VIS arm of SOXS
Adam Rubin, Sagi Ben-Ami, Ofir Hershko +45
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…
Development status of the UV-VIS detector system of SOXS for the ESO-NTT telescope
Rosario Cosentino, Marcos Hernandez, Hector Ventura +47
SOXS will be the new spectroscopic facility for the ESO NTT telescope able to cover the optical and NIR bands by using two different arms: the UV-VIS (350-850 nm), and the NIR (800…
The integration of the SOXS control electronics towards the PAE
Mirko Colapietro, Sergio D'Orsi, Giulio Capasso +51
SOXS (Son Of X-Shooter) is the new single object spectrograph for the ESO New Technology Telescope (NTT) at the La Silla Observatory, able to cover simultaneously both the UV-VIS a…