EPJ Web of Conferences (Jan 2022)

Millimetric Sardinia radio Telescope Receiver based on Array of Lumped elements kids

  • D’Alessandro G.,
  • Barbarava E.,
  • Battistelli E.S.,
  • de Bernardis P.,
  • Cacciotti F.,
  • Capalbo V.,
  • Carretti E.,
  • Columbro F.,
  • Coppolecchia A.,
  • Cruciani A.,
  • De Petris M.,
  • Govoni F.,
  • Isopi G.,
  • Lamagna L.,
  • Marongiu P.,
  • Masi S.,
  • Mele L.,
  • Molinari M.,
  • Murgia M.,
  • Navarrini A.,
  • Orlati A.,
  • Paiella A.,
  • Pettinari G.,
  • Piacentini F.,
  • Pisanu T.,
  • Poppi S.,
  • Presta G.,
  • Radiconi F.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202225700012
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 257
p. 00012

Abstract

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MISTRAL is a millimetric camera working in the W-band (78–103 GHz) which will take data from the Sardinia Radio Telescope, the Italian 64-m radio telescope located 50 km form Cagliari, at 600m above the sea level, in Sardinia. It is being built as a facility instrument by the Sapienza University for INAF, that manages the radio telescope, under a PON contract. It will consist of a compact cryostat hosting the re–imaging optics, cooled at 4K, and a 408–pixel array of photon–noise limited lumped element kinetic inductance detectors fabricated at CNR-IFN and cooled at a base temperature lower than 300mK. MISTRAL will be able to investigate a long list of scientific targets spanning from extragalactic astrophysics to solar system science, with high angular resolution (~ 12 arcsec), including Sunyaev Zel’dovich effect measurements and the study of the Cosmic Web.