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most citedThe Sardinia Radio Telescope: From a Technological Project to a Radio Observatory

82 citations · 178 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

Status and future development of the COSMOCal Project for absolute CMB polarization calibration

Silvia Micheli, Alessia Ritacco, Alessandro Carones +36

Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization measurements are pushing instrumental sensitivities to levels where calibration systematics become a dominant limitation. The large d…

astro-ph.IM2026

DEFROST: Detecting Excess in Faraday Rotation thrOugh Sophisticated analysis Techniques

Valentina Vacca, Sebastian Hutschenreuter, Andrea Cabriolu +7

Understanding origin and evolution of cosmological magnetic fields requires knowledge of magnetic fields in different extragalactic environments. In this context, a powerful tool i…

astro-ph.IM2025

Estimating Flux Densities of Diffuse Cosmological Radio Sources Exploiting Vision Transformers

Nicoletta Sanvitale, Claudio Gheller, Franco Vazza +3

We present TUNA, a Vision-Transformer based network adapted from segmentation to flux regression for faint, diffuse radio emission. Trained on LOFAR-like mock observations derived…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 2 cited

Mapping Diffuse Radio Sources Using TUNA: A Transformer-Based Deep Learning Approach

Nicoletta Sanvitale, Claudio Gheller, Franco Vazza +6

Vision Transformers are used via a customized TransUNet architecture, which is a hybrid model combining Transformers into a U-Net backbone, to achieve precise, automated, and fast…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 16 cited

The MeerKAT Fornax Survey IV. A close look at the cluster physics through the densest rotation measure grid

Francesca Loi, Paolo Serra, Matteo Murgia +5

Using the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) mid precursor MeerKAT, we acquired broadband spectro-polarimetric data in the context of the MeerKAT Fornax Survey to study the Fornax cluste…

astro-ph.HE2024

The First High Frequency Technosignature Search Survey with the Sardinia Radio Telescope

Lorenzo Manunza, Alice Vendrame, Luca Pizzuto +30

The quest for radio signals from technologically-advanced extraterrestrial intelligence has traditionally concentrated on the vicinity of 1.4 GHz. In this paper, we extend the sear…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 1 cited

The mm-to-cm SED of spiral galaxies. Synergies between NIKA2 and SRT instruments

S. Bianchi, M. Murgia, A. Melis +9

The mm-to-cm range of the Spectral Energy Distribution of spiral galaxies remains largely unexplored. Its coverage is required to disentangle the contribution of dust emission, fre…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 22 cited

Spectro-polarimetric observations of the CIZA J2242.8+5301 northern radio relic: no evidence of high-frequency steepening

Francesca Loi, Matteo Murgia, Valentina Vacca +16

Observations of radio relics at very high frequency (>10 GHz) can help to understand how particles age and are (re-)accelerated in galaxy cluster outskirts and how magnetic fields…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 82 cited

The Sardinia Radio Telescope: From a Technological Project to a Radio Observatory

I. Prandoni, M. Murgia, A. Tarchi +43

[Abridged] The Sardinia Radio Telescope (SRT) is the new 64-m dish operated by INAF (Italy). Its active surface will allow us to observe at frequencies of up to 116 GHz. At the mom…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 41 cited

GMRT observations of the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster

M. Murgia, D. Eckert, F. Govoni +4

VLA observations at 1477 MHz revealed the presence of a radio mini-halo surrounding the faint central point-like radio source in the Ophiuchus cluster of galaxies. In this work we…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 14 cited

Radio spectral index images of the spiral galaxies NGC 0628, NGC 3627, and NGC 7331

R. Paladino, M. Murgia, E. Orrù

In order to understand the cosmic ray propagation mechanism in galaxies, and its correlation with the sites of star formation, we compare the spatially resolved radio spectral inde…