no code implementations • 23 Dec 2020 • Rosario Cosentino, Marcos Hernandez, Hector Ventura, Sergio Campana, Riccardo Claudi, Pietro Schipani, Matteo Aliverti, Andrea Baruffolo, Sagi Ben Ami, Federico Biondi, Giulio Capasso, Francesco D'Alessio, Paolo D'Avanzo, Ofir Hershko, Hanindyo Kuncarayakti, Marco Landoni, Matteo Munari, Giuliano Pignata, Adam Rubin, Salvatore Scuderi, Fabrizio Vitali, David Young, Jani Achren, Jose Antonio Araiza Duran, Iair Arcavi, Anna Brucallassi, Rachel Bruch, Enrico Cappellaro, Mirko Colapietro, Massimo Della Valle, Marco De Pascale, Rosario Di Benedetto, Sergio D'Orsi, Avishay Gal Yam, Matteo Genoni, Jari Kotilainen, Gianluca Li Causi, Seppo Mattila, Michael Rappaport, Kalyan Radhakrishnan, Davide Ricci, Marco Riva, Bernardo Salasnich, Stephen Smartt, Ricardo Zanmar Sanchez, Maximilian Stritzinger, Matteo Accardo, Leander H. Mehrgan, Derek Ives, Josh Hopgood
The first tests of the detector system with the UV-VIS camera will be shown.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
no code implementations • 23 Dec 2020 • Hanindyo Kuncarayakti, Jani Achren, Sergio Campana, Riccardo Claudi, Pietro Schipani, Matteo Aliverti, Andrea Baruffolo, Sagi Ben-Ami, Federico Biondi, Giulio Capasso, Rosario Cosentino, Francesco D'Alessio, Paolo D'Avanzo, Ofir Hershko, Marco Landoni, Matteo Munari, Giuliano Pignata, Adam Rubin, Salvatore Scuderi, Fabrizio Vitali, David Young, Jose Antonio Araiza-Duran, Iair Arcavi, Anna Brucalassi, Rachel Bruch, Enrico Cappellaro, Mirko Colapietro, Massimo Della Valle, Marco De Pascale, Rosario Di Benedetto, Sergio D'Orsi, Avishay Gal-Yam, Matteo Genoni, Marcos Hernandez, Jari Kotilainen, Gianluca Li Causi, Seppo Mattila, Kalyan Radhakrishnan, Michael Rappaport, Davide Ricci, Marco Riva, Bernardo Salasnich, Stephen Smartt, Ricardo Zanmar Sanchez, Maximilian Stritzinger, Hector Ventura
The calibration unit will employ seven calibration lamps: a quartz-tungsten-halogen and a deuterium lamp for the flat-field correction, a ThAr lamp and four pencil-style rare-gas lamps for the wavelength calibration.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
no code implementations • 23 Dec 2020 • Davide Ricci, Andrea Baruffolo, Bernardo Salasnich, Marco De Pascale, Sergio Campana, Riccardo Claudi, Pietro Schipani, Matteo Aliverti, Sagi Ben-Ami, Federico Biondi, Giulio Capasso, Rosario Cosentino, Francesco D'Alessio, Paolo D'Avanzo, Ofir Hershko, Hanindyo Kuncarayakti, Marco Landoni, Matteo Munari, Giuliano Pignata, Kalyan Radhakrishnan, Adam Rubin, Salvatore Scuderi, Fabrizio Vitali, David Young, Jani Achrén, José Antonio Araiza-Duran, Iair Arcavi, Anna Brucalassi, Rachel Bruch, Enrico Cappellaro, Mirko Colapietro, Massimo Della Valle, Rosario Di Benedetto, Sergio D'Orsi, Avishay Gal-Yam, Matteo Genoni, Marcos Hernandez, Jari Kotilainen, Gianluca Li Causi, Seppo Mattila, Michael Rappaport, Marco Riva, Stephen Smartt, Ricardo Zanmar Sanchez, Maximilian Stritzinger, Hector Ventura
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, Integration, and Test) phase.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
no code implementations • 23 Dec 2020 • Adam Rubin, Sagi Ben-Ami, Ofir Hershko, Michael Rappaport, Avishay Gal-Yam, Rachel Bruch, Sergio Campana, Riccardo Claudi, Pietro Schipani, Matteo Aliverti, Andrea Baruffolo, Federico Biondi, Giulio Capasso, Rosario Cosentino, Francesco D'Alessio, Paolo D'Avanzo, Hanindyo Kuncarayakti, Marco Landoni, Matteo Munari, Giuliano Pignata, Salvatore Scuderi, Fabrizio Vitali, David Young, Jani Achrén, José Antonio Araiza-Duran, Iair Arcavi, Anna Brucalassi, Enrico Cappellaro, Mirko Colapietro, Massimo Della Valle, Marco De Pascale, Rosario Di Benedetto, Sergio D'Orsi, Thomas Flügel-Paul, Matteo Genoni, Marcos Hernandez, Jari Kotilainen, Gianluca Li Causi, Seppo Mattila, Kalyan Radhakrishnan, Davide Ricci, Marco Riva, Susann Sadlowski, Bernardo Salasnich, Stephen Smartt, Ricardo Zanmar Sanchez, Maximilian Stritzinger, Hector Ventura
We present our progress on the UV-VIS arm of Son Of X-Shooter (SOXS), a new spectrograph for the NTT.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
no code implementations • 23 Dec 2020 • Ricardo Zanmar Sanchez, Matteo Aliverti, Matteo Munari, Sergio Campana, Riccardo Claudi, Pietro Schipani, Andrea Baruffolo, Sagi Ben-Ami, Federico Biondi, Giulio Capasso, Rosario Cosentino, Francesco D'Alessio, Paolo D'Avanzo, Ofir Hershko, Hanindyo Kuncarayakti, Marco Landoni, Giuliano Pignata, Adam Rubin, Salvatore Scuderi, Fabrizio Vitali, David Young, Jani Achrén, José Antonio Araiza-Duran, Iair Arcavi, Anna Brucalassi, Rachel Bruch, Enrico Cappellaro, Mirko Colapietro, Massimo Della Valle, Marco De Pascale, Rosario Di Benedetto, Sergio D'Orsi, Avishay Gal-Yam, Matteo Genoni, Marcos Hernandez, Jari Kotilainen, Gianluca Li Causi, Seppo Mattila, Michael Rappaport, Kalyan Radhakrishnan, Davide Ricci, Marco Riva, Bernardo Salasnich, Stephen Smartt, Maximilian Stritzinger, Hector Ventura
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.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
no code implementations • 23 Dec 2020 • Federico Biondi, Kalyan Kumar Radhakrishnan Santhakumari, Riccardo Claudi, Matteo Aliverti, Luca Marafatto, Davide Greggio, Marco Dima, Gabriele Umbriaco, Nancy Elias-Rosa, Sergio Campana, Pietro Schipani, Andrea Baruffolo, Sagi Ben-Ami, Giulio Capasso, Rosario Cosentino, Francesco D'Alessio, Paolo D'Avanzo, Ofir Hershko, Hanindyo Kuncarayakti, Marco Landoni, Matteo Munari, Giuliano Pignata, Adam Rubin, Salvatore Scuderi, Fabrizio Vitali, David Young, Jani Achrén, José Antonio Araiza-Durán, Iair Arcavi, Anna Brucalassi, Rachel Bruch, Enrico Cappellaro, Mirko Colapietro, Massimo Della Valle, Marco De Pascale, Rosario Di Benedetto, Sergio D'Orsi, Avishay Gal-Yam, Matteo Genoni, Marcos Hernandez Diaz, Jari Kotilainen, Gianluca Li Causi, Seppo Mattila, Michael Rappaport, Davide Ricci, Marco Riva, Bernardo Salasnich, Stephen Smartt, Ricardo Zánmar Sánchez, Maximilian Stritzinger, Héctor Pérez Ventura
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.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
1 code implementation • 23 Dec 2020 • David R. Young, Marco Landoni, Stephen J. Smartt, Sergio Campana, Riccardo Claudi, Pietro Schipani, Matteo Aliverti, Andrea Baruffolo, Sagi Ben-Ami, Federico Biondi, Giulio Capasso, Rosario Cosentino, Francesco D'Alessio, Paolo D'Avanzo, Ofir Hershko, Hanindyo Kuncarayakti, Matteo Munari, Giuliano Pignata, Adam Rubin, Salvatore Scuderi, Fabrizio Vitali, Jani Achrén, José Antonio Araiza-Duran, Iair Arcavi, Anna Brucalassi, Rachel Bruch, Enrico Cappellaro, Mirko Colapietro, Massimo Della Valle, Marco De Pascale, Rosario Di Benedetto, Sergio D'Orsi, Avishay Gal-Yam, Matteo Genoni, Marcos Hernandez, Jari Kotilainen, Gianluca Li Causi, Seppo Mattila, Michael Rappaport, Kalyan Radhakrishnan, Davide Ricci, Marco Riva, Bernardo Salasnich, Ricardo Zanmar Sanchez, Maximilian Stritzinger, Hector Ventura
The SOXS is a dual-arm spectrograph (UV-VIS & NIR) and AC due to mounted on the ESO 3. 6m NTT in La Silla.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
no code implementations • 23 Dec 2020 • Marco Landoni, Dave Young, Laurent Marty, Laura Asquini, Stephen J. Smartt, Alberto Trombetta, Sergio Campana, Riccardo Claudi, Pietro Schipani, Matteo Aliverti, Andrea Baruffolo, Sagi Ben Ami, Federico Biondi, Giulio Capasso, Rosario Cosentino, Francesco D'Alessio, Paolo D'Avanzo, Ofir Hershko, Hanindyo Kuncarayakti, Matteo Munari, Giuliano Pignata, Adam Rubin, Salvatore Scuderi, Fabrizio Vitali, Jani Achren, Jose Antonio Araiza-Duran, Iair Arcavi, Anna Brucalassi, Rachel Bruch, Enrico Cappellaro, Mirko Colapietro, Massimo Della Valle, Marco De Pascale, Rosario Di Benedetto, Sergio DOrsi, Avishay Gal Yam, Matteo Genoni, Marcos Hernandez, Jari Kotilainen, Gianluca Li Causi, Seppo Mattila, Michael Rappaport, Kalyan Radhakrishnan, Davide Ricci, Marco Riva, Bernardo Salasnich, Ricardo Zanmar Sanchez, Maximilian Stritzinger, Hector Ventura
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 Consortium and regular ESO proposals. This paper will give details of how detected transients from various surveys are inserted, prioritised, and selected for observations with SOXS at the NTT while keeping the correct sharing between GTO time (for the SOXSConsortium) and the regularly approved observing time from ESO proposals.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
1 code implementation • 22 Apr 2019 • Lluís Galbany, Chris Ashall, Peter Hoeflich, Santiago González-Gaitán, Stefan Taubenberger, Maximilian Stritzinger, Eric Y. Hsiao, Paolo Mazzali, Eddie Baron, Stéphane Blondin, Subhash Bose, Mattia Bulla, Jamison F. Burke, Christopher R. Burns, Régis Cartier, Ping Chen, Massimo Della Valle, Tiara R. Diamond, Claudia P. Gutiérrez, Jussi Harmanen, Daichi Hiramatsu, T. W. -S. Holoien, Griffin Hosseinzadeh, D. Andrew Howell, Yiwen Huang, Cosimo Inserra, Thomas de Jaeger, Saurabh W. Jha, Tuomas Kangas, Markus Kromer, Joseph D. Lyman, Kate Maguire, George Howie Marion, Dan Milisavljevic, Simon J. Prentice, Alessandro Razza, Thomas M. Reynolds, David J. Sand, Benjamin J. Shappee, Rohit Shekhar, Stephen J. Smartt, Keivan G. Stassun, Mark Sullivan, Stefano Valenti, Steven Villanueva, Xiao-Feng Wang, J. Craig Wheeler, Qian Zhai, Jujia Zhang
Our modeling suggests that the narrow [Ca II] features observed in the nebular spectrum are associated with $^{48}$Ca from electron capture during the explosion, which is expected to occur only in white dwarfs that explode near or at the $M_{\rm Ch}$ limit.
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
1 code implementation • 5 Aug 2010 • Richard Kessler, Bruce Bassett, Pavel Belov, Vasudha Bhatnagar, Heather Campbell, Alex Conley, Joshua A. Frieman, Alexandre Glazov, Santiago Gonzalez-Gaitan, Renee Hlozek, Saurabh Jha, Stephen Kuhlmann, Martin Kunz, Hubert Lampeitl, Ashish Mahabal, James Newling, Robert C. Nichol, David Parkinson, Ninan Sajeeth Philip, Dovi Poznanski, Joseph W. Richards, Steven A. Rodney, Masao Sako, Donald P. Schneider, Mathew Smith, Maximilian Stritzinger, Melvin Varughese
A spectroscopically confirmed subset was provided for training.
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics