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Per maggiori informazioni MEDIA INAF AGILE HEAD	IL PREMIO "BRUNO ROSSI" CONFERITO A MARCO TAVANI E AL TEAM AGILE IL SATELLITE ITALIANO AGILE VIENE INSIGNITO DEL PREMIO “BRUNO ROSSI” DELL’AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY PER LA SCOPERTA DI EMISSIONE TRANSIENTE DI RAGGI GAMMA PROVENIENTE DALLA FAMOSA NEBULOSA DEL GRANCHIO. News Premio Bruno Rossi
	1st Call "ASTRONOMY FELLOWSHIPS IN ITALY" The National Institute for Astrophysics is pleased to announce the launch of the AstroFIt Programme, in co-funding with the European Commission's 7th Framework Progamme, under the Marie Curie Action COFUND. Publication Date: 1 December 2011 Deadline for submission of applications: 1 February 2012 at 12.00am (Rome local time). For further information and documents, please visit the AstroFIt website www.astrofit.inaf.it or contact astrofit@inaf.it Information
	ENRICO COSTA NOMINATO GRANDE UFFICIALE Giovedì 1/12/2011 Enrico Costa,Dirigente di Ricerca dell'INAF IASF Roma, è stato nominato Grande Ufficiale dal Presidente della Repubblica Giorgio Napolitano. Per maggiori informazioni www.shawprize.org/ www.media.inaf.it/
	39th COSPAR Scientific Assembly Mysore, India, 14-22 July 2012 Information on the 38^th COSPAR Scientific Assembly www.cospar-assembly.org/ Information on the Event E1.14: X-ray Polarimetry in Astrophysics www.iasf-roma.inaf.it/Cospar2012/
	Vulcano Workshop 2012 Frontier Objects in Astrophysics and Particle Physics Vulcano, Italy, may 28 - june 02 2012 Workshop Web Page: http://www.lnf.infn.it/conference/vulc2012/
A SCIENCE WORKSHOP IN SARDINIA Update The Extreme and Variable High Energy Sky 19-23 September 2011 Chia Laguna Resort (Cagliari) Italy The Extreme and Variable Sky
The Golden Age of Cataclysmic Variables and Related Objects Palermo (Italy) 12-17 September 2011 Splendid Hotel La Torre http://cvsworkshop2011.iasf-roma.inaf.it/
The Shaw Prize in Astronomy June 7^th, 2011. Dr Enrico Costa, Director of Research at the Institute of Space Astrophysics and Cosmic Physics (Rome) of the National Institute of Astrophysics (Italy) and Dr Gerald J. Fishman, Chief Scientist at the NASA – Marshall Space Flight Center (USA), have been awarded with the Shaw Prize in Astronomy by The Shaw Prize Foundation based in Hong Kong. Read more ...
LOFT Day Meeting June 8, 2011 Rome, Frentani Conference Center Registration ...
Venus Southern Polar Vortex Reveals Precessing Circulation Published Online 7 April 2011 Science DOI: 10.1126/science.1201629 Abstract D. Luz, D. L. Berry, G. Piccioni, P. Drossart, R. Politi, C. F. Wilson, S. Erard, and F. Nuccilli Initial images of Venus's South Pole by the Venus Express mission showed the presence of a bright, highly variable vortex, similar to that at the planet's North Pole. Using high-resolution infrared measurements of polar winds from the Venus Express Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer (VIRTIS) instrument, we show the vortex to have a constantly varying internal structure, with a centre of rotation displaced from the geographic South Pole by ~3 degrees of latitude, and which drifts around the pole with a period of 5 to 10 Earth days. This is indicative of a nonsymmetric and varying precession of the polar atmospheric circulation with respect to the planetary axis. http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=48601# http://www.media.inaf.it/2011/04/07/la-danza-del-vortice/ http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2011/04/06/science.1201629
Multifrequency Behaviour of High Energy Cosmic Sources Vulcano (Messina, Italy) 23-28 May 2011 Eolian Hotel http://workshop2011.iasf-roma.inaf.it/
LOFT selezionata per la Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 ESA ha ufficializzato il risultato della selezione delle possibili nuove missioni di classe M per la Cosmic Vision 2015-2025. Le quattro proposte selezionate sono: Exoplanet Characterisation Observatory (EChO) Large Observatory For X-ray Timing (LOFT) MarcoPolo-R Space-Time Explorer and Quantum Equivalence Principle Space Test (STE-QUEST) Public outreach (IT). PDF copy http://sci.esa.int// http://www.media.inaf.it/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/ LOFT project
IXO Science Meeting Present status and future prospects in X-ray Astronomy March 14^th - 16^th, 2011, Rome CNR, Headquarter P.le Aldo Moro, 7 http://www.iasf-roma.inaf.it/IXO/
Premio "Fermi" a Filippo Frontera e Enrico Costa Bologna, 20 settembre 2010. A Filippo Frontera (Universitï¿½ di Ferrara, associato INAF) e ad Enrico Costa (INAF-IASF Roma) ï¿½ stato assegnato il premio "Fermi" 2010 della SIF (Societï¿½ Italiana di Fisica) per il loro lavoro con BeppoSAX sugli afterglow-X dei Gamma Ray Burst. http://www.media.inaf.it/
Il cielo di Venere in una stanza 30 luglio 2010. Nei due laboratori europei, il Planetary Laboratory (PLAB) presso lï¿½INAF-IASF di Roma e il Planetary Emissivity Laboratory a Berlino, ï¿½ stato ricostruito in apposite camere lï¿½ambiente venusiano. Nella figura ï¿½ rappresentata a cella contenente anidride carbonica ad alta temperatura e pressione nel PLAB dell'INAF-IASF di Roma. http://www.media.inaf.it/2010/07/30/il-cielo-di-venere-in-una-stanza/
Published by Lightcurve Films a Video about VIRTIS July 2010. This film provides with a glimpse behind the scenes of how such an instrument is conceived and built. This film is supported by INAF Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, ASI Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, and the Laboratoire d'Etudes Spatiales et d'Instrumentation en Astrophysique of the Observatoire de Paris, France. http://www.ifsi-roma.inaf.it/virtis/ http://vimeo.com/13118043 http://vimeo.com/13074249
Recent Hot-Spot Volcanism on Venus from VIRTIS Emissivity Data 8 April 2010. The Venus Express Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer (VIRTIS) measures the spectral emissivity of the surface of Venus in a waveband (around 1 micron) that is weakly absorbed by the atmosphere of the planet. Report published in the 8 April issue of Science. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/science.1186785 http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Venus_Express/SEMUKVZNK7G_0.html http://www.media.inaf.it/2010/04/08/su-venere-scorre-lava/
Gli anelli di Saturno su Science 19 Marzo 2010. Nel numero odierno di Science sono pubblicati i risultati principali ottenuti dagli strumenti dalla sonda Cassini (NASA/JPL-ESA-ASI) dedicata allo studio del sistema planetario di Saturno, durante i primi 6 anni della missione. Grazie ai diversi strumenti (camere, spettrometri UV-VIS-IR, detector di polveri e radio scienza) ï¿½ stato possibile per il Cassini Rings Working Group, guidato da Jeff Cuzzi (NASA-AMES), tracciare un quadro esaustivo della struttura, composizione, evoluzione e dinamica degli anelli di Saturno. Parte dell'analisi dei dati di VIMS (Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer) sono stati condotti presso IASF-Roma. -->
Vulcano Workshop 2010 Frontier Objects in Astrophysics and Particle Physics Vulcano (Italy) 24-29 May 2010 http://www.lnf.infn.it/conference/vulc2010/

Progetti

INTEGRAL Galactic Plane Scanning

CASSINI Mission VIMS-V Instrument

VIMS is an imaging spectrometer that flies on board the Cassini spacecraft (a NASA/ESA/ASI mission). VIMS is an experiment by JPL (VIMS IR), ASI (VIMS V), IASF/INAF and IAS-Orsay (for the main electronics).

The scientific program is mainly focused on Saturn and Titan atmospheres, observation of Titan surface through narrow spectral window in the NIR, and identification of surface composition of small satellites, rings, and asteroids observed during the cruise phase.

INTEGRAL IBIS

ESA's INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics L

INTEGRAL is an ESA mission in cooperation with Russia and the United States.

ROSETTA VIRTIS

VIRTIS is an imaging spectrometer onboard of the Rosetta spacecraft. VIRTIS was being built by INAF, Galileo Avionica, DLR and Observatorie de Paris.

It combines three data channels in one compact instrument. Two of them are devoted to spectral mapping (Mapper optical subsystem: -M), the third channel is devoted to spectroscopy (High resolution optical subsystem:-H).

Venus Express Virtis

VIRTIS (Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer) is a complex instrument initially devoted to the remote sensing study of comet Wirtanen on the Rosetta mission, at wavelengths between 0.3 and 5 mm.

The focal planes, with state of the art CCD and infrared detectors achieve high sensitivity for low emissivity sources. Due to the high flexibility of operational modes of VIRTIS, these performances are also ideally adapted for the study of Venus atmosphere, both on night and day side.

AGILE

AGILE is a space Scientific Mission devoted to gamma-ray astrophysics supported by the Italian Space Agency (ASI), with scientific participation of the Italian Institute of Astrophysics (INAF) and the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN).

AMIE - SMART11

SMART-1 is the first of ESA's Small Missions for Advanced Research in Technology thought with the purpouse of testing new technologies that will eventually be used on bigger projects.

Among SMART-1 on-board instruments there is the AMIE camera. AMIE (Advanced Moon micro-Imager Experiment) is an ultracompact electronic camera that will survey the terrain using visible and near-infrared light.

Dawn Mission VIR Instrument

Dawn is a NASA mission that will be launched in 2006.

The VIR Spectrometer (Visual and Infrared Spectrometer) is an instrument by the italian that will fly on it. Dawn will be launched to study two asteroids, Vesta and Ceres.

GRI Gamma Ray Imager

The Gamma-Ray Imager is an initiative of the European Gamma-Ray Community aiming in the definition of the next European Gamma-Ray mission within ESA's Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 program.

Edge
Estremo/WFXRT
Xenia

Edge is a space mission under study aimed to address fundamental questions on the evolution of the Universe from the dark era to the present age and its violent manifestations of phenomena in extreme conditions.

Simbio-SYS on BepiColombo, a Mission to Mercury

BepiColombo is the planetary cornerstone mission of the European Space Agency to the planet Mercury. It is composed of a magnetospheric orbiter (MMO, provided by Jaxa) and a Planetary orbiter (MPO). It carries onboard the Italian led instrument Simbio-SYS (Spectrometer and IMagers for MPO BepiColombo Integrated Observatory SYStem), which is an integrated package for the imaging and spectroscopic investigation of the Hermean surface. It incorporates capabilities to perform medium space resolution global mapping in stereo and color imaging using two pan-chromatic and 3 broad-band filters, respectively as well as high space resolution imaging in a pan-chromatic and 3 broad-band filters and imaging spectroscopy in the spectral range 400 ï¿½2000 nm.

The science goals of SIMBIO-SYS are to examine the surface geology (stratigraphy, geomorphology), volcanism (lava plain emplacement, volcanoes identification), global tectonics (structural geology, mechanical properties of lithosphere), surface age (crater population and morphometry, degradation processes), surface composition (maturity and crustal differentiation, weathering, rock forming minerals abundance determination), and geophysics (libration measurements, internal planet dynamics) of Mercury.

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