Scientific and Technological projects
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Athena
The Astrophysics of the Hot and Energetic Universe - CTA
An observatory for ground-based gamma-ray astronomy 
Darklight
Illuminating Dark Energy with the Next Generation of Cosmological Redshift Surveys- Espresso
Searching for other Worlds - GrawITA
GRAvitational WaveSearching 
ELT High Resolution Spectrograph
Biosignatures in Exo-Earths - First Light Stars - Fundamental Physics
Hot Milk - The Hot phase of the Milky Way
Flows of hot plasma connecting the Milky Way center to the corona, halo and beyond- MAGIC
Gamma-ray astronomy at low energies with high sensitivity - MAORY
Multi-conjugate Adaptive Optics RelaY for E-ELT - Rem
A 60 cm diameter telescope located in the La Silla - SOXS @ NTT
Son Of X-Shooter - Built by an international consortium - Spaceinn
Exploitation of Space Data for Innovative Helio- and Asteroseismology - Swift
A NASA medium explorer satellite for GRB science - Weave
The next-generation wide-field survey facility for the William Herschel Telescope (WHT)
Go to Project Archives
Seminars in Milan
- Galaxy clusters with eROSITA
- h. 14:30 - 21 Oct 2020 - IASF | Esra Bulbul - MPE
Latest publications
- Geant4 Simulation for the Responses of X-rays and Charged Particles through Wolter-I Focusing Mirrors
- Qi, L., Li, G., Zhang, J., Xu, Y., Lu, F., Basso, S., Campana, R., Chen, Y., DeRosa, A., Pareschi, G., et al., -
- PreProFit: Pressure Profile Fitter for galaxy clusters
- Castagna, Fabio, Andreon, Stefano -
- Why are some galaxy clusters underluminous?. The very low concentration of the CL2015 mass profile
- Andreon, S., Moretti, A., Trinchieri, G., Ishwara Chandra, C. H. -
- Euclid preparation. III. Galaxy cluster detection in the wide photometric survey, performance and algorithm selection
- Euclid Collaboration, Adam, R., Vannier, M., Maurogordato, S., Biviano, A., Adami, C., Ascaso, B., Bellagamba, F., Benoist, C., Cappi, A., Díaz Sánchez, et al., -
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Coronavirus (Covid-19) Emergency
Visits and information
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Competitions
Thesis in OAB
School-Work Alternation (PCTO)
OAB for school
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Astro curiosity
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September 2020
Of cabbages and kings
Not about astronomy but I want to speak about exponential and delaies, physics, Middle Ages army and current events - Tomaso Belloni
Go to the web page to read the curiosity
News
Look over the following link to know all our events: Google Calendar
The observatory is closed to public from March, 1 2020 (see the ordinance of Premier). For Milano: the Astronomical Museum of Brera is closed - the astronomical lessons of Universo in fiore are cancelled - for Merate: all evening and daily visits and lessons are cancelled. Follow us for news.
Our events in September - Click on the pdf icon to download the newsletter in pdf format 
October, 15 2020 - 9 p.m. - Conference with music: "Red in the night" - Monica Sperandio (speaker) - Abramo Raule (violin) - Giovanni Mazzei (piano) . Auditorium Giusi Spezzaferri in Merate (LC) - All info "Conferences with music" - Booking opening from 1/10/2020 - Download the flyer in pdf format
September, 29 2020 FIRST lesson for the BASIC Astronomy course - For Covid19 emergency the course will be ONLINE - The ADVANCED corse will be from 2021 January - All info "Universo in fiore 2020".
Astrophotografy show until October, 18 2020: "At what point is the NIGHT?" - c/o Centro Civico G.Verdi - Segrate (MI) - The show is organized by PhysicalPub and conceived by Chiara Righi and Simone Iovenitti (a post-doc and a PhD students of INAF-OAB) with the support of several researchers of our staff. See the opening on YouTube:opening show. Show time: from September, 12 to October, 18 from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m, - Monday and Friday until 11.30 p.m. All info on facebook - online audioguide.
During Coronavirus 4 female students in stage (PCTO) - On Youtube you can see their interviews to our astronomers: Covid-19 and Ultraviolet light (5 episodes) - Working abroad - Moving researchers! (10 episodes)
Events
Go to 11th edition for "I cieli di Brera" - public conferences - Milano The conferences series are organized by Brera Observatory in collaboration with Brera Pinacoteca and Institute of Science and Literature of Milano.
Personal expositions - Brera Astronomical Observatory - Merate - Go to page http://www.brera.inaf.it/ArteInCupola/
Italian astronomical olympics are organized and supported by Italian Astronomical Society and National Institute of Astrophysics, in cooperation with Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca. Go to official site www.olimpiadiastronomia.it
Research for everybody
- Selected issues web site and pages
- MOON: collective story - Fiftieth from Moon landing
July, 20 1969 mankind takes the first walk on the surface of the Moon ...
INAF-OAB celebrates the fiftieth anniversary with some events.
(go to the italian web page)
Riccardo Giacconi. Memories. On EDU INAF
by Laura Barbalini, Anna Wolter and Luigi Stella
(go to the italian web site)
A web site telling the history of the Observatory through its instruments ... (go to the italian web site)
Gamma-ray bursts were first observed in the late 1960s by the U.S. Vela satellites, which were built to detect gamma radiation pulses emitted by nuclear weapons tested in space ... (go to the italian web site)
