A Stellar Intensity Interferometry Instrument for the ASTRI Mini-Array telescopes

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Zampieri, Luca ; Bonanno, Giovanni ; Bruno, Pietro ; Gargano, Carmelo ; Lessio, Luigi ; Naletto, Giampiero ; Paoletti, Lorenzo ; Rodeghiero, Gabriele ; Romeo, Giuseppe ; Bulgarelli, Andrea ; Conforti, Vito ; Fiori, Michele ; Gallozzi, Stefano ; Gianotti, Fulvio ; Grillo, Alessandro ; Landoni, Marco ; Lombardi, Saverio ; Lucarelli, Fabrizio ; Morselli, Aldo ; Occhipinti, Giovanni ; Parmiggiani, Nicolo ; Pernechele, Claudio ; Fernandez, Gonzalo Rodriguez ; Russo, Federico ; Sironi, Giorgia ; Timpanaro, Maria Cristina ; Giordano, Valentina ; Pareschi, Giovanni ; Scuderi, Salvatore ; Tosti, Gino ; ASTRI Project ; Merand, A ; Sallum, S ; Sanchez-Bermudez, J

• Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
• Fonte: OPTICAL AND INFRARED INTERFEROMETRY AND IMAGING VIII; v. 12183, p. 14-pg., 2022-01-01.

Resumo

The ASTRI Mini-Array is an International collaboration, led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics, that is constructing and operating an array of nine Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes to study gamma-ray sources at very high energy and perform optical stellar intensity interferometry (SII) observations. Angular resolutions below 100 microarcsec are achievable with stellar intensity interferometry, using telescopes separated by hundreds to thousands of meters baselines. At this level of resolution it turns out to be possible to reveal details on the surface and of the environment surrounding bright stars on the sky. The ASTRI Mini-Array will provide a suitable infrastructure for performing these measurements thanks to the capabilities offered by its 9 telescopes, which provide 36 simultaneous baselines over distances between 100 m and 700 m. After providing an overview of the scientific context and motivations for performing SII science with the ASTRI Mini-Array telescopes, we present the baseline design for the ASTRI Stellar Intensity Interferometry Instrument, a fast single photon counting instrument that will be mounted on the ASTRI telescopes and dedicated to performing SII observations of bright stars. (AU)

• Processo FAPESP: 13/10559-5 - Investigação de fenômenos de altas energias e plasmas astrofísicos: teoria, simulações numéricas, observações e desenvolvimento de instrumentação para o Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA)
• Beneficiário: Elisabete Maria de Gouveia Dal Pino
• Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Projetos Especiais