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The Italian participation to the WSO/UV Project. WSO/UV. I sabella Pagan o INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania. Recent developments. Nov 2005 : ASI release of the Italian National Aero-Space Plan (PASN) for 2006-2008 WSO/UV is inside the PASN.
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The Italian participation to the WSO/UV Project WSO/UV Isabella Pagano INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania
Recent developments • Nov 2005: ASI release of the Italian National Aero-Space Plan (PASN) for 2006-2008 WSO/UV is inside the PASN The Italian participation
RosCosmos/ASI Interagency Meeting in Rome on Dec 21 2005 in part devoted to WSO/UV The Italian participation
Recent developments • ASI & NWWG decision (end of January 2006) stimulated by a strong science interest1 in the optical/UV cameras. • Decision document for the WSO/UV FCU Adopted by the WSO Implementation Committee on Feb 21, 2006. • The Italian participation to the WSO/UV Project - A review on the status of the project for the INAF SC evaluation (April 8th, 2006) The Italian participation
The Field Camera Unit • Serendipitous science during spectroscopic observations • Planned studies of specific targets Specifications (WSO-VIL-INST-CNF-0003 (21 Feb 2006) The Italian participation
ASI call for a Phase A/B1 study • The technical project of "Field Camera Unit" (FCU); • The definition of programmatic and cost of the Italian contribution; • The choice of the imagers passbands • A report on the key science objectives of the instruments The Italian participation
Project development plan To = 09/2006? Time
Other issues • Science operation center (??) There is an interest from ASI and INAF. • MoU between ASI and RosCosmos after the Phase B study, but from interagency high level discussion (March 2006) we are going towards a MoU. The Italian participation
INAF • The Italian Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica was very hostile toward WSO/UV after the ESA/AWG report on 13 Jan 2006 (ASTRO(2006)3). • The Italian NWWG produced a document1 and gave a presentation2 to the INAF Science Council to defend the project (science case, recent developments, programmatics). • We succeeded to obtain the recommendation of WSO/UV in the INAF Long Term Plan. • The Italian participation to the WSO/UV Project - A review on the status of the project for the INAF SC evaluation (April 8th, 2006) • The Italian participation to the WSO/UV Project - Presentation to INAF Science Council, Apr 21th, 2006 The Italian participation
From the INAF LTP (draft document) The Italian participation
Recent talks • Pagano I, Rodonò M. and the WIC, 2006, “The World Space Observatory Project for Ultraviolet”, Chinese Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics, in press (refereed paper) • Pagano, I., Scuderi, S., Bonanno G., Piotto G., Shustov, B., Turatto M. , Kappelmann N., 2006, “The World Space Observatory Project for the Ultraviolet”, in Frontier Objects in Astrophysics and Particle Physics, F. Giovannelli & G. Mannocchi (eds.), Italian Physical Society, Editrice Compositori, Bologna, Italy, in press (invited talk) • Pagano I., 2006, “The Italian contribution to the WSO/UV Project”, 2006, Invited talk given at the SAIt meeting held in Turin 28 May – 1 Jun 2006. To appear on the Memorie SAIt, online version. The Italian participation
Temporary Italian WSO/UV web page • http://www.ct.astro.it/gass/WSO/WSOUV-IT.htm The Italian participation