Jul 5 – 10, 2021
Europe/Rome timezone

High angular resolution Sunyaev Zel'dovich observations: the case of MISTRAL

Jul 5, 2021, 5:27 PM
19m
Invited talk in the parallel session Cosmic Backgrounds from radio to far-IR Cosmic Backgrounds from Radio to Far-IR

Speaker

Elia Stefano Battistelli (Spaienza University of Rome)

Description

The interaction of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) photons with hot electron gas in Galaxy Clusters and surrounding medium can be detected through the Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect. When this effect is detected with high enough angular resolution (~10'') it allows astrophysicists to study the physics of galaxy clusters, relaxed and non-relaxed clusters, and detect filamentary structures which could give the possibility to detect the Cosmic Web. These observations are one of the main targets of the MISTRAL instrument together with a long list of scientific targets spanning from extragalactic astrophysics to solar system science. MISTRAL (MIllimetric Sardinia radio Telescope Receiver based on Array of Lumped elements kids) is a millimetric camera working in the W–band (77–103 GHz) which will be hosted on the Sardinia Radio Telescope (SRT), the Italian 64-m radio telescope located near Cagliari at 600m above the sea level, managed by INAF. It is being built as a facility instrument by the Sapienza University for INAF, funded by a PON contract for the upgrade of the SRT at high frequency. It will consist of a compact cryostat hosting the re–imaging optics, cooled at 4 K, and a 408–pixel array of photon–noise limited lumped element kinetic inductance detectors, manufactured at CNR-IFN, and cooled at a base temperature lower than 300 mK.

Primary author

Elia Stefano Battistelli (Spaienza University of Rome)

Co-authors

Dr Alessandro Coppolecchia (Sapienza University of Rome) Dr Alessandro Navarrini (OAC-INAF) Dr Alessandro Paiella (Sapienza University of Rome) Dr Andrea Orlati (IRA-INAF) Dr Angelo Cruciani (INFN-Sezione di Roma) Ms Eleonora Barbavara (Sapienza University of Rome) Dr Emilio Molinari (OAC-INAF) Dr Ettore Carretti (IRA-INAF) Dr Fabio Columbro (Sapienza University of Rome) Dr Federica Govoni (OAC-INAF) Mr Federico Cacciotti (Sapienza University of Rome) Mr Federico Radiconi (Sapienza University of Rome) Prof. Francesco Piacentini (Sapienza University of Rome) Dr Giorgio Pettinari (CNR-IFN) Mr Giovanni Isopi (Sapienza University of Rome) Dr Giuseppe D'Alessandro (Sapienza University of Rome) Dr Giuseppe Presta (Sapienza University of Rome) Mr Lorenzo Mele (Sapienza University of Rome) Dr Luca Lamagna (Sapienza University of Rome) Prof. Marco De Petris (Sapienza University of Rome) Dr Matteo Murgia (OAC-INAF) Prof. Paolo De Bernardis (Sapienza University of Rome) Mr Pasqualino Marongiu (OAC-INAF) Dr Sergio Poppi (OAC-INAF) Prof. Silvia Masi (Sapienza University of Rome) Mr Tonino Pisanu (OAC-INAF)

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