Acquisition Camera

The SOXS acquisition and guiding camera will mainly be used for the acquisition of sources to allow for the centring of targets on the slits. The Andor iKon M934 camera detector has a \(1024\times1024\) pixel BEX2-DD CCD providing a circular FOV with a \(3.5\) arcmin diameter and a 0.205 arcsec pixel scale. 7 filters are provided; the 6 LSST \(u, g, r, i, z, y\) and the \(V\) Johnston filter. See Brucalassi et al. [BPADuran18] for more detail.

Table 44 Acquisition Camera Characteristics

Parameter

Value

Camera

Andor iKon M934

Detector

BEX2-DD

Pixel-Size

13 \(\mu\)m

Array-Size

1024 \(\times\) 1024; 13.3 x 13.3 mm

Array-Scale

0.205 arcsec/px

Peak Signal

130000 \(e^{-}/px\)

Dark Current @ 173 K

0.00012 \(e^{-}/s/px\)

Read noise (rms)

2.9 \(e^{-}\)

Filters

\(u, g, r, i, z, y, V\)