Expertise

The Instituto de Radioastronomia (IRA) operates national radio astronomy facilities in Medicina and Noto including two 32-m telescopes and the Northern Cross. IRA develops antenna technology; RF and digital technology, imaging analysis software; numerical and graphic simulations.

SKADS Role

Coordinator of DS6 (Cylinder array demonstrator, BEST); major participant in DS4 (Technical foundations and enabling technologies); participant DS3 (the Network and its output data)Potential Sub-contractors: IEIITT Torino: electromagnetic antenna simulation. DEIS Bologna (Bologna University): Hybrid MIC and and MMIC design and simulationDET (Firenze University): Reliability; risk analysis and quality computation/estimationOsservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari: pulsar observations, computer science, simulations with PC clusters.

Website

SKA activities at the Istituto di Radioastronomia.