Radioastronomy and SKA-related Acvies in Italy

Isabella Prandoni INAF – Istuto di Radioastronomia

[prandoni@ira.inaf.it]

3/21/18 Outline

1 - INAF and its Organizaon

• Radioastronomy Secon 2 - Italy involvement in SKA

• Techno/Industry

• Data Centers

• Science 3 – The Italian Roadmap to the SKA

• Precursors and Pathfinders

• Explong Synergies

Харків - 06.11.2017Swiss SKA Days – June 11-12, 2018 – I. Prandoni 1 - INAF

INAF Istuto Nazionale di Astrofisica Founded in 1999; 1000 employees and a budget of 77 M€ (2017). Develops scienfic and technological research in the field of Astrophysics.

INAF Structures in Italy: Headquarters in Rome 16 Structures (Instutes/Observatories) Mixed groups with Universies University Personnel “associated" to INAF

A number of instutes carry out scienfic research as well as technological development for ground and space instrumentaon

Харків - 06.11.2017Swiss SKA Days – June 11-12, 2018 – I. Prandoni 1 - INAF Internaonal Facilies

Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG) 4-mt class telescope located in La Palma, Canary Island, Spain. Imaging and low resoluon spectroscopy capabilies in the Visible and Near Infrared. Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) Binocular Telescope with 8.4 mt. twin mirrors located at Mount Graham AZ (USA). Advanced Adapve Opcs Network of Italian radio telescopes for VLBI and single dish observaons SRT: 64-m (Sardinia); Medicina (Bologna) and Noto (Sicily) 32-m - Acve surface in SRT and Noto. Frequency agility in SRT and Medicina Cherenkov Telescope MAGIC Stereoscopic Cherenkov Telescope located in La Palma for observaon at very high energy (gamma rays) through the Cherenkov effect.

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Italian parcipaon in ESO VLT instruments; ALMA (ARC) Design and construcon of adapve opcs for E-ELT (MAORY – Mul- coniugate Adapve Opcs relaY)

Italian parcipaon in the Square Kilometre Array

Italian parcipaon to Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA)

Харків - 06.11.2017Swiss SKA Days – June 11-12, 2018 – I. Prandoni 1 - INAF Internaonal Facilies

INAF collaborates with ASI (Italian Space Agency) in the design, development, construcon and use of space missions with scienfic payloads.

INAF has direct collaboraons with ESA, NASA, ROSCOSMOS, JAXA and other major enes with the same purpose.

INAF has proven excellence in areas as: high energy astrophysics (i.e. Beppo-SAX, SWIFT, AGILE) Extra solar planets search and characterisaon (i.e. CHEOPS, PLATO) Solar System exploraon (i.e., SOLAR Orbiter, ROSETTA, JUNO, Bepi-Colombo, ExoMars) other field such as Cosmology (Euclid), CMB (Planck), et al.

Харків - 06.11.2017Swiss SKA Days – June 11-12, 2018 – I. Prandoni 1 – New Organizaon of INAF Scientific Director INAF Scienfic Directorate F. Zerbi

Section I Section II Section III Section IV Optical/IR Astronomy Radio Astronomy High-Energy Astronomy Planetology & Solar System

Section V Space Projects Management Technical Offices: Section VI Project Project Industry/Innovation/ ICT & Management Management Technology Transfer Science & System & System Data Engineering Engineering Section VII Management [Space] [Ground-based] Competitive Fundings International Relations

Харків - 06.11.2017Swiss SKA Days – June 11-12, 2018 – I. Prandoni 1 – INAF Secon II - Radio INAF Scientific Director Astronomy F. Zerbi

Project Management Section II and System Engineering Radio Astronomy [Ground-based] F.Govoni D. Fierro ICT & Main Topics Science Data Management R. Smareglia

E.Carretti T.Venturi G.Brunetti G.Umana A.Possenti I.Prandoni J.Brand

Advisors Single-dish SKA SKA Big Data Antennas VLBI Precursors Precursors SKA ALMA Pathfinders Pathfinders Supercomputing & mm (SRT-Medicina- Archive facilities wavelengths Noto) (low frequency ) (high frequency) for Radio Astronomy

INAF Staff (Scientists and Technologists) Coordinate and harmonize the efforts of the technological and scientific communities

Харків - 06.11.2017Swiss SKA Days – June 11-12, 2018 – I. Prandoni 1 – INAF Secon II - Radio INAF Scientific Director Astronomy F. Zerbi

Project Management Section II and System Engineering Radio Astronomy [Ground-based] F.Govoni D. Fierro

Italian SKA Board Chair I. Prandoni Deputy-Chair D. Fierro I.Prandoni

+ 10 members: SKA (ex-)Chairs Science SKA WGs Coordinators SKA Design Consortia SKA-related Advisors Head of ICT Office

Харків - 06.11.2017Swiss SKA Days – June 11-12, 2018 – I. Prandoni 2 - INAF Involvement in SKA: techno

LMC task ✔

✔ ✔ LMC task ✔ Receiver WP

Харків - 06.11.2017Swiss SKA Days – June 11-12, 2018 – I. Prandoni 2 – INAF Involvement in SKA - Techno INAF Structures:

INAF HQ (Rome) Radioastronomy Instute [LFAA] Catania Observatory [DISH] External Trieste Observatory [TM] Collaborators Arcetri Observatory [CSP] UniBO IASF-Milano Teramo Observatory CNR-IEIIT

POLITO

CNR-IMEM

FE

OAA ***

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Partners: INAF, UMAN, ASTRON, Chalmers Univ., Malta Univ.

From PHAROS to PHAROS2 (C-band)

INAF: Digital Backens & “Warm Secon”

INAF Leader: A. Navarrini (Cagliari Obs.)

Cagliari Observatory IRA Arcetri Observatory Catania Observatory

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Lead WP5: M. Massardi (IRA) - (ARC experience) WP5: interface between a distributed ESDC and a distributed body of end users IRA, Obs. Trieste, Obs Catania

Харків - 06.11.2017Swiss SKA Days – June 11-12, 2018 – I. Prandoni 2 - Parcipaon of Italian industrial partners in the SKA

Parcipaon of Italian industrial partners starts to be very acve in 2009-2010 Central Data Processing – Leonardo Finmeccanica (Airbone & Space Systems, Land and Naval defence, Electronics, Security and Informaon Systems) Telescope Management & Local monitoring control – Elera Low Frequency Aperture Arrays (long standing tradion in INAF, with inhouse and more industrial partners, such as Sirio, Leonardo- Finmeccanica, Lightech, Sanitas, Campera, Optel) SKA-DISH – Società Aeronauca Mediterranea (SAM) & EIE (involved in the construcon of ALMA, ASTRI, E-ELT)

Italian industry strong in several other areas: ü forefront: e.g. precision mechanics and state-of-the-art electronics ü tradional: e.g. infrastructure [i.e. Astaldi-Cimolai & EIE involved in dome & main structure of E-ELT]

Харків - 06.11.2017Swiss SKA Days – June 11-12, 2018 – I. Prandoni 2 – INAF Involvement in SKA: Science Updated end 2017

Харків - 06.11.2017Swiss SKA Days – June 11-12, 2018 – I. Prandoni 2 – INAF Involvement in SKA: Science SKA Science Book - 2015

Харків - 06.11.2017Swiss SKA Days – June 11-12, 2018 – I. Prandoni 2 – An Italian Roadmap to SKA

2011-2012 Kick-off SKA meeng in Italy & First Naonal Workshop

2013: Join SKA Design Consora and SKA Science WG

2014: Italian SKA Book (Eds. Fere, Prandoni et al.)

2015: Parcipaon to Internaonal SKA Book

2015-2017: Ad hoc funding for SKA/CTA: 30 MEu

2016: Compeve call for SKA/CTA Science (3 MEu)

2017: Join AENEAS EU Project

2017: Reorganizaon of INAF Secon II

2018: new funding for SKA/CTA: 185 MEu/11 years? 24 May 2018 2018: Italy inialling of IGO convenon

Харків - 06.11.2017Swiss SKA Days – June 11-12, 2018 – I. Prandoni 1 – Role of SKA-related Advisors and Italian SKA Board

Need to involve all key persons in INAF for SKA-related acvies à help INAF/Secon-II:

to establish an Italian view to be played in the Internaonal SKA context

to maximize return of Italy investment in technology, science, industry

Ø Need to build a strong and compeve Italian SKA Community coordinang Italian (technical and scienfic) efforts in preparaon of SKA construcon and KSP idenfying opportunies/crical areas/ways to enlarge parcipaon favouring involvement (incl. leading roles) in precursors/pathfinders invesng appropriate resources, building on exisng (scienfic/technical) experse and exploing synergies

Харків - 06.11.2017Swiss SKA Days – June 11-12, 2018 – I. Prandoni 2 – Acons towards Precursors

ILT (Low-v precursors Advisor):

Agreement to join through:

1) yearly share + technological involvement of INAF in LOFAR 2.0 development;

2) LOFAR 2.0 staon (from 2021)

~2.5 MEu/5 years

Signed April 16, 2018

LOFAR à Science ready Instrument

Харків - 06.11.2017Swiss SKA Days – June 11-12, 2018 – I. Prandoni 2 – Exploing Synergies

Exploitaon of synergies & commensality I. Hook @ SKA-Euclid Synergies, Oxford, 2013 important part of SKA KP definion (EWASS 2017) à mul-band approach:

• Survey strategy • Fields • scienfic synergies

Exploit Italy-based projects/facilies: e.g. WEAVE/LBT for LOFAR; Euclid; CTA, ELT, Athena, LSST, etc.

è INAF Workshop December 2018

Харків - 06.11.2017Swiss SKA Days – June 11-12, 2018 – I. Prandoni Thanks!