2020/12/23 by R. Cosentino, Marcos Hernandez, Cosentino, Rosario +100
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #FOS: Physical sciences #Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #solar cell performance optimization
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2012.12769
openalex publication_date 2020/12/23 · openalex created_date 2022/07/25 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
SOXS will be the new spectroscopic facility for the ESO NTT telescope able to\ncover the optical and NIR bands by using two different arms: the UV-VIS\n(350-850 nm), and the NIR (800-2000 nm). In this article, we describe the\ndevelopment status of the visible camera cryostat, the architecture of the\nacquisition system and the progress in the electronic design. The UV-VIS\ndetector system is based on a CCD detector 44-82 from e2v, a custom detector\nhead, coupled with the ESO continuous flow cryostats (CFC), a custom cooling\nsystem, based on a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC), and the New General\nController (NGC) developed by ESO. This paper outlines the development status\nof the system, describes the design of the different parts that make up the\nUV-VIS arm and is accompanied by a series of information describing the SOXS\ndesign solutions in the mechanics and in the electronics parts. The first tests\nof the detector system with the UV-VIS camera will be shown.\n