Conveners
Tecnologie Avanzate e Strumentazione
- Pietro Schipani (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
Tecnologie Avanzate e Strumentazione
- Pietro Schipani (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
Within INAF, research in the field of “Advanced Technology and Instrumentation” falls under the Scientific National Grouping 5 (RSN5). Technological research in INAF is highly multidisciplinary and diversified and innovation is always at the basis of INAF's technological development. Design and realization of more and more complex hardware and software tools, developing innovative...
Within the next five years, the next generation of Cherenkov Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACT) arrays will be completed or very close to completion. The first of these facilities is the ASTRI Mini-Array, a project, led by INAF, to build and operate nine IACT telescopes at the Teide Astronomical Observatory in Tenerife (Spain). The second one is the Cherenkov Telescope Array...
INAF, along with several Italian industries, universities, and other research institutes, has been engaged in this significant project since its inception in 2002. The initial advancements occurred in 2004 with the Institute of Radio Astronomy's involvement in the EC FP6 SKADS project, using the Northern Cross radiotelescope for testing new technologies, such as analog RF optical fiber links...
SOXS (Son Of X-Shooter) is the new spectroscopic facility for the ESO 3.58m New Technology Telescope (NTT) at the La Silla Observatory, which will become one of the premier transient follow-up instruments in the Southern hemisphere.
It will be used for the classification and characterization of all kind of astrophysical transients and variable sources with a flexible schedule managed by the...
The VSTPOL project, funded by the EU’s Recovery Plan (PNRR) in the context of the CTA+ program, will upgrade the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) to enhance the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) with new capabilities in optical polarimetry. The proposed upgrade positions the VST as the first large wide-field telescope equipped for advanced polarimetric observations, and will be primarily...
INAF is playing a major role in the next generation wide field Adaptive Optics systems for ESO telescopes. This includes, in particular, two instruments, dedicated to wavefront compensation: MAVIS, for the VLT UT4, and MORFEO, for the ELT. The two systems face different challenges: short wavelength on one side and huge size on the other.
MAVIS will be part of the next generation of VLT...
The Point Spread Function (PSF) is the response of a system to a point source. It depends on many factors, such as instrument optical quality, atmospheric turbulence, gravitational effects due to telescope optics mass, and the diffraction of the telescope entrance pupil. It is generally variable across the Field of View (FoV), and the reasons for its variability have different origins. Its...
High Performance Computing (HPC) and Big Data technologies are powerful tools to model the complex dynamic systems studied in Astrophysics and Cosmology today. They are essential for the majority of activities in modern astrophysics. These activities range from processing and analysing astronomical data to interpreting and comparing them to theoretical predictions, as well as running...
The technologies in the eXtended Reality (XR) field have been rapidly developing in the last few years, allowing for their effective implementation in several different applications, beside the entertainment world they are more commonly associated with.
Virtual, augmented and mixed reality environments can effectively support the various phases in the development of instrumentation for...
Modern computing needs for astronomical applications are soon reaching the ExaFLOPs scale. This calls for the usage of heterogeneous supercomputers accelerated with GPUs which, however, span several architectures that might imply portability problems of applications. For this purpose, several programming frameworks that allow portability of codes across these architectures without significant...
The Northern Cross(NC) is a transit radiotelescope composed of two branches located in Medicina(BO). The North-South branch was upgraded in recent years and is now involved in many projects, included the study of transient phenomena, particularly Fast Radio Burst(FRBs). Important results have been already obtained, discovering new FRBs and monitoring several repeaters.
The NG-Croce project,...
The design and development of astronomical Instrumentations and Telescopes of the ELT (Extremely Large Telescope) class represents one of the most complex technological challenges of recent times. This task, from an engineering point of view, certainly deserves an innovative, curious and proactive approach that can always support and stimulate the activity of the researchers involved in it....
