The SOXS consortium : Data Flow Architecture Work Package
Lead Research Organisation:
Queen's University Belfast
Department Name: Sch of Mathematics and Physics
Abstract
In the era of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, new high energy experiments, radio surveys and gravitational wave searches, we will be flooded with transients from both photonic and non-photonic regimes. A major challenge is to determine distances, energies and physical origins. Optical spectra provide the most robust way to quantify transients and dedicated spectroscopic facilities are essential. ESO selected the spectrometer SOXS as a new instrument to be installed on the New Technology Telescope. This wide wavelength, high efficiency, medium resolution spectrometer will be dedicated to real time follow-up.
Our UK consortium team have world leadership in spectroscopic surveys combined with physical modelling to provide rapid science discoveries. We will built this new instrument for the NTT that will follow-up new discoveries in the explosive Universe.
We will combine our expertise to discover and physically model the most exotic stellar explosions. These include superluminous supernovae, black hole and magnetar powered explosions, long and ultra-long gamma ray bursts. Our ultimate goal is to spectroscopically discover and confirm the sources of gravitational waves expected from advanced LIGO/VIRGO - the first kilonovae has been discovered and we will build on this breakthrough in physics to determine how frequently these collisions occur and what powers their luminosity.
Our UK consortium team have world leadership in spectroscopic surveys combined with physical modelling to provide rapid science discoveries. We will built this new instrument for the NTT that will follow-up new discoveries in the explosive Universe.
We will combine our expertise to discover and physically model the most exotic stellar explosions. These include superluminous supernovae, black hole and magnetar powered explosions, long and ultra-long gamma ray bursts. Our ultimate goal is to spectroscopically discover and confirm the sources of gravitational waves expected from advanced LIGO/VIRGO - the first kilonovae has been discovered and we will build on this breakthrough in physics to determine how frequently these collisions occur and what powers their luminosity.
Planned Impact
We are committed to outreach and public engagement. Stellar explosions, gamma-ray bursts, solar system bodies and the dynamic Universe enthuse the public and school children and we involve the amateur astronomy community in observing. A recent example is PESSTO's link with the BBC's Stargazing live to confirm public supernova discoveries and the SOXS project has great potential to engage further.
Organisations
People |
ORCID iD |
Stephen Smartt (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Rubin A
(2020)
Progress on the UV-VIS arm of SOXS
Schipani P
(2020)
Development status of the SOXS spectrograph for the ESO-NTT telescope
Schipani Pietro
(2019)
The SOXS instrument and its significance in the future of La Silla
in The La Silla Observatory - From the Inauguration to the Future
Swann E.
(2019)
4MOST Consortium Survey 10: The Time-Domain Extragalactic Survey (TiDES)
in The Messenger
Young David R.
(2020)
The SOXS Data-Reduction Pipeline
in arXiv e-prints
Zánmar Sánchez R
(2018)
SOXS: a wide band spectrograph to follow up transients
Title | SOX Data reduction pipeline |
Description | New pipeline, python based, for reduction of raw data from the instrument and provision of scientific data to users |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Early release of pipeline to experts in ESO to verify the pipeline is working, before it is released publicly in late 2023 |
URL | https://github.com/thespacedoctor/soxspipe |