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We present here the Calar Alto Schmidt-Lemaitre Telescope (CASTLE) concept, a technology demonstrator for curved detectors, that will be installed at the Calar Alto Observatory (Spain). This telescope has a wide field of view (2.36x1.56…

On May 27th 2010, the Italian astronomical community learned with concern that the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) was going to be suppressed, and that its employees were going to be transferred to the National Research Council…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-12 Angelo Antonelli , Vincenzo Antonuccio-Delogu , Andrea Baruffolo , Stefano Benetti , Simone Bianchi , Andrea Biviano , Annalisa Bonafede , Marco Bondi , Stefano Borgani , Angela Bragaglia , Massimo Brescia , John Robert Brucato , Gianfranco Brunetti , Riccardo Brunino , Michele Cantiello , Viviana Casasola , Rossella Cassano , Alberto Cellino , Gabriele Cescutti , Andrea Cimatti , Andrea Comastri , Edvige Corbelli , Giovanni Cresci , Serena Criscuoli , Stefano Cristiani , Guido Cupani , Sabrina De Grandi , Valerio D'Elia , Melania Del Santo , Gabriella De Lucia , Silvano Desidera , Marcella Di Criscienzo , Valentina D'Odorico , Elisabetta Dotto , Fabio Fontanot , Mario Gai , Simona Gallerani , Stefano Gallozzi , Bianca Garilli , Isabella Gioia , Marisa Girardi , Myriam Gitti , Gianluigi Granato , Raffaele Gratton , Andrea Grazian , Carlotta Gruppioni , Leslie Hunt , Giuseppe Leto , Gianluca Israel , Manuela Magliocchetti , Laura Magrini , Gabriele Mainetti , Filippo Mannucci , Alessandro Marconi , Martino Marelli , Michele Maris , Francesca Matteucci , Massimo Meneghetti , Aniello Mennella , Amata Mercurio , Silvano Molendi , Pierluigi Monaco , Alessia Moretti , Giuseppe Murante , Fabrizio Nicastro , Marina Orio , Adamantia Paizis , Francesca Panessa , Fabio Pasian , Laura Pentericci , Lucia Pozzetti , Mariachiara Rossetti , Joana S. Santos , Alexandro Saro , Raffaella Schneider , Laura Silva , Roberto Silvotti , Richard Smart , Andrea Tiengo , Luca Tornatore , Paolo Tozzi , Edoardo Trussoni , Tiziano Valentinuzzi , Eros Vanzella , Franco Vazza , Alberto Vecchiato , Tiziana Venturi , Giacomo Vianello , Matteo Viel , Alvaro Villalobos , Valentina Viotto , Benedetta Vulcani

In the last ten years, the field of Cherenkov astronomy has become an important contributor to high energy astrophysics with the detection of eight objects at energies above 300 GeV. These observations have advanced our understanding of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Catanese

The ANTARES deep-sea neutrino telescope will be located at a depth of 2400 m in the Mediterranean Sea. Deployment of the detector will commence this Autumn and is expected to be completed by the end of 2004. With a surface area of the order…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 T. Montaruli

Results will be shown from the ASTRONEU array developed and operated in the outskirts of Patras, Greece. An array of 9 scintillator detectors and 3 antennas were deployed to study Extensive Air Showers (EAS) as a tool for calibrating an…

The DUNE/LBNF program aims to address key questions in neutrino physics and astroparticle physics. Realizing DUNE's potential to reconstruct low-energy particles in the 10-100 MeV energy range will bring significant benefits for all DUNE's…

The first intensive photometric time-series of a Delta Scuti star was obtained from space. Theta2 Tau was monitored with the star camera on the Wide-Field Infrared Explorer (WIRE) satellite. Twelve independent frequencies were detected down…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ennio Poretti , D. Buzasi , R. Laher , J. Catanzarite , T. Conrow

The VLTI Spectro Imager (VSI) was proposed as a second-generation instrument of the Very Large Telescope Interferometer providing the ESO community with spectrally-resolved, near-infrared images at angular resolutions down to 1.1…

VLTi Spectro-Imager (VSI) is a proposition for a second generation VLTI instrument which is aimed at providing the ESO community with the capability of performing image synthesis at milli-arcsecond angular resolution. VSI provides the VLTI…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), is an international project for the next generation ground- based observatory for gamma-ray astronomy in the energy range from 20 GeV to 300 TeV. The sensitivity in the core energy range will be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-07 Markus Garczarczyk , Stefan Schlenstedt , Louise Oakes , Ullrich Schwanke , the MST Team

The ANTARES Collaboration is currently constructing a large neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean sea. The telescope will use a three-dimensional array of photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) to detect the Cherenkov light emitted in sea water by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. A. Kudryavtsev

The goal of this talk is to give an overview of the current status of the development of the Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer ground based gravitational wave (GW) detectors and of their foreseen scientific goals. These detectors will…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-23 Matteo Di Giovanni

OARPAF (Osservatorio Astronomico Regionale Parco Antola Comune di Fascia, Italy) hosts an 80cm Astelco telescope with a Gambato Dome, SBIG-STX camera, Davis weather station, and SBIG AllSky camera. We present a layer-structured python3…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-15 Davide Ricci , Lorenzo Cabona , Silvano Tosi , Sandro Zappatore

GRAPES-3 is a mid-altitude (2200 m) and near equatorial ($11.4^{\circ}$ North) air shower array, overlapping in its field of view for cosmic ray observations with experiments that are located in Northern and Southern hemispheres. We analyze…

KM3NeT is a research infrastructure in construction under the Mediterranean Sea. It hosts two large volume neutrino Cherenkov telescopes: ARCA at a depth of 3500 m, located offshore Sicily, and ORCA, 2500 m under the sea level, offshore the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-08 A. Margiotta

The Large Scale Polarization Explorer (LSPE) project, funded by the Italian Space Agency (ASI), includes the development of LSPE-Strip, a ground-based radio telescope for observing Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies. LSPE-Strip,…

We present an overview of the main AGILE Data Center activities and architecture. AGILE is a space mission of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) in joint collaboration with INAF, INFN, CIFS, and with the participation of several Italian space…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-28 Carlotta Pittori

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation of ground-based very high energy gamma-ray instruments; the facility will be organized in two arrays, one for each hemisphere. The atmospheric calibration of the CTA telescopes is a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Laura Valore , Carla Aramo , Michele Doro , Marco Iarlori , Vincenzo Rizi , Aurelio Siro Tonachini , Piero Vallania

The Wide Field Imager (WFI) is one of two instruments for the Advanced Telescope for High-ENergy Astrophysics (Athena). In this paper we summarise three of the many key science objectives for the WFI - the formation and growth of…