https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202225700012
Millimetric Sardinia radio Telescope Receiver based on Array of Lumped elements kids
1 Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma, Italy
2 INFN sezione di Roma, 00185 Roma, Italy
3 INAF - Istituto di Radioastronomia
4 INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari
5 CNR-IFN - Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie, Roma, Italy
* e-mail: giuseppe.dalessandro@roma1.infn.it
Published online: 17 January 2022
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.
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