ESO DOI Service

• Csörnyei, Géza [European Southern Observatory (ESO)]
• Schöller, Markus [European Southern Observatory (ESO)]
• Peroux, Celine [European Southern Observatory (ESO)]

A workshop was held at ESO Headquarters in Garching to introduce the newly installed and currently commissioned Son Of X-Shooter (SOXS) spectrograph. SOXS will be a new instrument on ESO's New Technology Telescope dedicated primarily to transient astrophysics, with the aim of spectroscopically following up on the events discovered by current and new all-sky surveys. The main objectives of the workshop were to present the instrument to the community, showcase its operational model, observational sequence, and guaranteed-time observation (GTO) areas. In addition to highlighting SOXS’s technical capabilities and scientific prospects, the workshop also addressed operational policies in preparation for when SOXS will be offered to the community.