Commissioning of the Sardinia Radio Telescope in Italy: Results and perspectives

Author

Ambrosini, R. ; Ambrosini, R. ; Bocchinu, A. ; Bolli, P. ; Buffa, F. ; Buttu, M. ; Cattani, Allegra ; D´Amico, N. ; Deiana, G.L. ; Fara, A. ; Fiocchi, F. ; Gaudiomonte, F. ; Maccaferri, A. ; Mariotti, S. ; Marongiu, P. ; Melis, A. ; Melis, G. ; Migoni, C.

Author_Institution

IRA, INAF, Bologna, Italy

fYear

2014

fDate

16-23 Aug. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

On 30 September 2013, the opening ceremony of SRT has signed the contractual ending of the instrumental commissioning of the Sardinia Radio Telescope. In February 2014 it has been completed also the “fine tuning process” aimed at defining the first optimizations parameters needed to make calibrated radio astronomical observations. Since then, the final Astronomical Validation, that was just started in parallel with the previous activities, has taken the lead of the user´s allocated time. At the time of the real presentation in August we expect to be able to present the experimental quantitative results of the commissioning that at the time of this writing are still under analysis.

Keywords

optimisation; radiotelescopes; Italy; Sardinia Radio Telescope; astronomical validation; fine tuning process; instrumental commissioning; opening ceremony; optimization parameters; radio astronomical observations; user allocated time; Abstracts; Facsimile; Instruments; Mirrors; Observatories; Radio astronomy; Tuning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

General Assembly and Scientific Symposium (URSI GASS), 2014 XXXIth URSI

Conference_Location

Beijing

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/URSIGASS.2014.6930052

Filename

6930052