Pranusanguni - San Basilio (Cagliari) Italy

Astronomers

Astrophysical Validation

The Astrophysical  Validation team includes staff and post-doc from the Institute of Radioastronomy, the Cagliari Astronomical Observatory and the Arcetri Observatory, coordinated by the Project Scientist Isabella Prandoni.

 Publications 

  • Murgia M. and the SRT Astrophysical Validation Team, 2012, SRTrill v1.0Internal Report N.23, Oss. Astr. Cagliari (INAF)
  • Tarchi A., Castangia P., Poppi S., Scalambra A.,and the SRT Astrophysical Validation Team, 2013, Analog filters for the Digital Filter Bank of the SRT: scientific motivation, technical requirements, and proposed solutions, Internal Report N.25, Oss. Astr. Cagliari (INAF)
  • Tarchi A., Castangia P., Govoni F., Murgia M., Poppi S., Ricci R., and the  SRT Astrophysical Validation Team, 2013, Towards an Extended catalogue of Pointing Calibrators for (high frequency) Observations with the SRTInternal Report N.27, Oss. Astr. Cagliari (INAF)
  • Buttu M. D’Amico N., Egron E., Iacolina M.N., Marongiu P., Migoni C.,  Pellizzoni A., Poppi S., Possenti A., Trois A.,Vargiu G.P. and the SRT Astrophysical Validation and Commissioning Teams, 2013, Detection by Sardinia Radio Telescope of radio pulses at 7 GHz from the Magnetar PSR J1745-2900 in the Galactic center region, ATel#5053, The Astronomer’s Telegram
  • Vacca V., Iacolina M.N., Pellizzoni A., Iacolina S.A., Trois A., and the  SRT Astrophysical Validation Team, 2013, CASTIA: A Source Visibility Tool for the Italian Radio Telescopes, IRA Internal Report, IRA 468/13
  • Melis A., Concu R., Trois A., Migoni C., Ricci R., Bartolini M., and the  SRT Astrophysical Validation Team, 2014, An RFI Monitoring System Based on  a Wide-Band Digital Back-end For The Sardinia Radio Telescope, Internal Report N.36, Oss. Astr. Cagliari (INAF)
  • Perrodin D., Concu R., Melis A., and the SRT Astrophysical Validation  Team, 2014, LEAP project at SRT: Hardware, software and implementation, Internal Report N.39, Oss. Astr. Cagliari (INAF)
  • Buttu M., Casu S. Melis A., Migoni C., Poppi S., Porceddu I., and the SRT  Astrophysical Validation Team, 2014, Tracking in Osservazioni  Spettroscopiche Cometarie: la cometa C/2012 S1 (ISON), Internal Report  N.41, Oss. Astr. Cagliari (INAF)
  • Migoni C., Melis A., Fara A., and the SRT Astrophysical Validation Team,  2014, VLBI Observations with the Sardinia Radio telescope: Hardware and software implementation, Internal Report N.42, Oss. Astr. Cagliari (INAF)
  • Prandoni I., Melis A., Migoni C., et al. 2014, ”The SRT in the Context of European Networks: Astronomical Validation & Future Perspectives”, in proceedings 12th European VLBI Network Symposium and Users Meeting, PoS(EVN 2014)046
  • Egron E., Iacolina M.N. Burgay M., Perrodin D., Corongiu A., Pellizzoni  A., Tiburzi C., Poppi S. Possenti A., Trois A., Fara A., and the SRT Astrophysical Validation Team, 2015, Observing with the DFB at the SRT: Practical Notes for the Users, Internal Report N.45, Oss. Astr. Cagliari (INAF)
  • Zanichelli A., Righini S., Mack K.-H., Orfei A., Vacca V., and the SRT Astrophysical Validation Team, 2015, Single Dish Exposure Time Calculator User Manual - Release 1.0, IRA Internal Report, IRA 487/15
  • Melis A., Migoni C., Comoretto G., Castangia P., Casu S., Tarchi A., Orlati A., Poppi S., and the SRT Astrophysical Validation Team, 2015, Integration of the digital full Stokes spectrometer XARCOS into the control software of Sardinia & Medicina radio-telescopes, Internal ReportN. 52, Oss. Astr. Cagliari (INAF) 
  • R. Ricci, A. Tarchi, S. Poppi, S. Righini and the SRT Astronomical Validation Team, A first extended catalogue of pointing/focus calibrators for the Sardinia Radio Telescope, IRA Internal Report  496/16

Astrophysical Validation Team

  1. Isabella Prandoni, i.prandoni at ira.inaf.it (Project Scientist)
  2. Ettore Carretti, carretti at oa-cagliari.inaf.it (SRT Officer-in-Charge)
  3. Nichi D'Amico 
  4. Alessandro Orfei
  5. Andrea Orlati
  6. Simona Righini
  7. Roberto Ricci
  8. Gianni Comoretto
  9. Matteo Murgia
  10. Andrea Tarchi
  11. Sergio Poppi
  12. Alberto Pellizzoni
  13. Federica Govoni
  14. Tonino Pisanu
  15. Andrea Melis
  16. Carlo Migoni
  17. Silvia Casu
  18. Marta Burgay
  19. Alessio Trois
  20. Antonietta Fara
  21. Paola Castangia
  22. Valentina Vacca
  23. Maria Noemi Iacolina
  24. Ignazio Porceddu
  25. Pietro Bolli
  26. Alessandro Corongiu
  27. Alessandra Zanichelli
  28. Carlo Stanghellini
  29. Francesco Nasyr
  30. Delphine Perrodin
  31. Francesco Gaudiomonte
  32. Giuseppe Valente
  33. Elise Egron
  34. Caterina Tiburzi
  35. Alessandro Ridolfi
  36. Fabrizio Massi
  37. Raimondo Concu
  38. Marco Bartolini
  39. Marco Buttu
  40. Daria Guidetti
  41. Francesca Loi
  42. Matteo Bachetti
  43. Maura Pilia