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astro-ph.IM2023

The optical imager Galileo (OIG)

Bortoletto F., Benetti S., Bonanno G. +9

The present paper describes the construction, the installation and the operation of the Optical Imager Galileo (OIG), a scientific instrument dedicated to the 'imaging' in the visi…

astro-ph.IM2023

The commissioning phase

F. Bortoletto, S. Benetti, G. Bonanno +34

In May 1997 a consistent part of the services and structures committed to the industry had already been released to the commissioning group. The telescope itself was, with the exce…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 58 cited

The ASTRI Mini-Array of Cherenkov Telescopes at the Observatorio del Teide

Scuderi S., Giuliani A., Pareschi G. +95

The ASTRI Mini-Array (MA) is an INAF project to build and operate a facility to study astronomical sources emitting at very high-energy in the TeV spectral band. The ASTRI MA consi…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 4 cited

Towards new servo control algorithms at the TNG telescope

P. Schipani, M. Gonzalez, F. Perrotta +5

The servo control algorithms of the TNG, developed in the nineties, have been working for more than 20 years with no major updates. The original hardware was based on a VME-bus bas…

astro-ph.IM2020

LOCNES: a solar telescope to study stellar activity in the near infrared

Claudi R., Ghedina A., Pace E. +27

LOCNES (LOw-Cost NIR Extended Solar telescope) is a solar telescope installed at the TNG (Telescopio Nazionale Galileo). It feeds the light of the Sun into the NIR spectrograph GIA…

astro-ph.IM2018

LOCNES: Low Cost NIR Extended Solar Telescope

R. Claudi, A. Ghedina, E. Pace +11

The search for telluric extrasolar planets with the Radial Velocity (RV) technique is intrinsically limited by the stellar jitter due to the activity of the star, because stellar s…

astro-ph.IM2018

GIARPS: commissioning and first scientific results

R. Claudi, S. Benatti, I. Carleo +41

GIARPS (GIAno \& haRPS) is a project devoted to have on the same focal station of the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG) both high resolution spectrographs, HARPS-N (VIS) and GIANO…

astro-ph.IM2017

GIARPS@TNG GIANO-B & HARPS-N together for a wider wavelength range spectroscopy

R. Claudi, S. Benatti, I. Carleo +36

Since 2012, thanks to the installation of the high resolution echelle spectrograph in the optical range HARPS-N, the Italian telescope TNG (La Palma) became one of the key faciliti…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 10 cited

Astro-comb calibrator and spectrograph characterization using a turn-key laser frequency comb

Aakash Ravi, David F. Phillips, Matthias Beck +8

Using a turn-key Ti:sapphire femtosecond laser frequency comb, an off-the-shelf supercontinuum device, and Fabry-Perot mode filters, we report the generation of a 16 GHz frequency…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 6 cited

GIARPS: the unique VIS-NIR high precision radial velocity facility in this world

Riccardo Claudi, Serena Benatti, Ilaria Carleo +30

GIARPS (GIAno & haRPS) is a project devoted to have on the same focal station of the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG) both the high resolution spectrographs HARPS-N (VIS) and GIA…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 51 cited

Lines and continuum sky emission in the near infrared: observational constraints from deep high spectral resolution spectra with GIANO-TNG

E. Oliva, L. Origlia, S. Scuderi +19

Aims Determining the intensity of lines and continuum airglow emission in the H-band is important for the design of faint-object infrared spectrographs. Existing spectra at low/med…

astro-ph.IM2010★ 902 cited

Design Concepts for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The CTA Consortium

Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy has had a major breakthrough with the impressive results obtained using systems of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. Ground-based gamma-ray…