Year: 2022
Type: preprint
Abstract: 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, consisting of a two-arms high-efficiency spectrograph covering the spectral range 350-2000 nanometer with a mean resolving power R$\approx$4500. SOXS will be uniquely dedicated to the UV-visible and near infrared follow up of astrophysical transients, with a very wide pool of targets available from the streaming services of wide-field telescopes, current and future. This instrument will serve a variety of scientific scopes in the astrophysical community, with each scope eliciting its specific requirements for observation planning, that the observing scheduler has to meet. Due to directions from the European Southern Observatory (ESO), the instrument will be operated only by La Silla staff, with no astronomer present on the mountain. This implies a new challenge for the scheduling process, requiring a fully automated algorithm that should be able to present the operator not only with and ordered list of optimal targets, but also with optimal back-ups, should anything in the observing conditions change. This imposes a fast-response capability to the scheduler, without compromising the optimization process, that ensures good quality of the observations. In this paper we present the current state of the scheduler, that is now almost complete, and of its web interface.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Authors: Asquini, Laura, Landoni, Marco, Young, Dave, Marty, Laurent, Smartt, Stephen, Campana, Sergio, Claudi, Riccardo, Schipani, Pietro, Aliverti, Matteo, Battaini, Federico, Baruffolo, Andrea, Ami, Sagi Ben, Bianco, Andrea, Biondi, Federico, Capasso, Giulio, Cosentino, Rosario, D'Alessio, Francesco, D'Avanzo, Paolo, Hershko, Ofir, Munari, Hanindyo Kuncarayaktim Matteo, Pignata, Giuliano, Rubin, Adam, Scuderi, Salvatore, Vitali, Fabrizio, Achren, Jani, Duran, Jose Antonio Araiza, Arcavi, Iair, Brucalassi, Anna, Bruch, Rachel, Cappellaro, Enrico, Colapietro, Mirko, Della Valle, Massimo, De Pascale, Marco, Di Benedetto, Rosario, D'Orsi, Sergio, Yam, Avishay Gal, Genoni, Matteo, Hernandez, Marcos, Kotilainen, Jari, Causi, Gianluca Li, Mattila, Seppo, Pariani, Giorgio, Rappaport, Michael, Radhakrishnan, Kalyan, Ricci, Davide, Riva, Marco, Salasnich, Bernardo, Sanchez, Ricardo Zanmar, Stritzinger, Maximilian, Ventura, Hector
Institutions: University of Insubria, Brera Astronomical Observatory, National Institute for Astrophysics, Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari, Queen's University Belfast, Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte, Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania, Astronomical Observatory of Rome, Weizmann Institute of Science, Universidad Andrés Bello, Tel Aviv University, Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory, Aarhus University
Language: English
Subfield: Instrumentation
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4297847299