Publications (37)
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…
HIRES, the high-resolution spectrograph for the ELT
Alessandro Marconi, Manuel Abreu, Vardan Adibekyan +99
HIRES will be the high-resolution spectrograph of the European Extremely Large Telescope at optical and near-infrared wavelengths. It consists of three fibre-fed spectrographs prov…
Nightside condensation of iron in an ultra-hot giant exoplanet
David Ehrenreich, Christophe Lovis, Romain Allart +94
Ultra-hot giant exoplanets receive thousands of times Earth's insolation. Their high-temperature atmospheres (>2,000 K) are ideal laboratories for studying extreme planetary climat…
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…
CUBES, the Cassegrain U-Band Efficient Spectrograph: towards final design review
Matteo Genoni, Hans Dekker, Stefano Covino +39
In the era of Extremely Large Telescopes, the current generation of 8-10m facilities are likely to remain competitive at ground-UV wavelengths for the foreseeable future. The Casse…
Fundamental physics with Espresso: Towards an accurate wavelength calibration for a precision test of the fine-structure constant
Tobias M. Schmidt, Paolo Molaro, Michael T. Murphy +56
Observations of metal absorption systems in the spectra of distant quasars allow to constrain a possible variation of the fine-structure constant throughout the history of the Univ…
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…
CUBES: optical design and analysis of the VLT's high-resolution UV spectrograph past final design review
Lawrence Bissell, Walter Seifert, Ariadna Calcines Rosario +7
CUBES (Cassegrain U-Band Efficient Spectrograph) will be the most efficient UV spectrograph on an 8-10m class telescope, exploiting the ESO VLT's higher telescope efficiency relati…
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…
WST instrument Exposure Time Calculator: full simulation of multi-mode spectrograph performance from source to detector
Matteo Ferro, Matteo Genoni, Henri M. J. Boffin +13
We present a comprehensive Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) developed for the Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) concept. The WST, currently in its conceptual phase, is designe…
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…
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…
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…
MORFEO enters final design phase
Lorenzo Busoni, Guido Agapito, Alessandro Ballone +81
MORFEO (Multi-conjugate adaptive Optics Relay For ELT Observations, formerly MAORY), the MCAO system for the ELT, will provide diffraction-limited optical quality to the large fiel…
CUBES Phase A design overview -- The Cassegrain U-Band Efficient Spectrograph for the Very Large Telescope
Alessio Zanutta, Stefano Cristiani, David Atkinson +51
We present the baseline conceptual design of the Cassegrain U-Band Efficient Spectrograph (CUBES) for the Very Large Telescope. CUBES will provide unprecedented sensitivity for spe…
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…
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…
Performance Verification of the EXtreme PREcision Spectrograph
Ryan T. Blackman, Debra A. Fischer, Colby A. Jurgenson +25
The EXtreme PREcision Spectrograph (EXPRES) is a new Doppler spectrograph designed to reach a radial velocity measurement precision sufficient to detect Earth-like exoplanets orbit…
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…
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…
The CUBES Instrument Model and Simulation Tools. Their role in the project Phase A study
Matteo Genoni, Marco Landoni, Guido Cupani +8
We present the simulation tools developed to aid the design phase of the Cassegrain U-Band Efficient Spectrograph (CUBES) for the Very Large Telescope (VLT), exploring aspects of t…
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…
From Assembly to the Complete Integration and Verification of the SOXS Common Path
Kalyan Kumar Radhakrishnan Santhakumari, Federico Battaini, Riccardo Claudi +50
The Son Of X-Shooter (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…
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…
The CUBES Science Case
Chris Evans, Stefano Cristiani, Cyrielle Opitom +51
We introduce the scientific motivations for the development of the Cassegrain U-Band Efficient Spectrograph (CUBES) that is now in construction for the Very Large Telescope. The as…
CUBES and its software ecosystem: instrument simulation, control, and data processing
Giorgio Calderone, Roberto Cirami, Guido Cupani +11
CUBES (Cassegrain U-Band Efficient Spectrograph) is the recently approved high-efficiency VLT spectrograph aimed to observe the sky in the UV ground-based region (305-400 nm) with…