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The aim is to report on the MISTRAL facility's commissioning phase and its capabilities for scientific investigation.

February 24, 2026

MISTRAL observations during the commissioning phase at the Sardinia Radio Telescope

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The aim is to report on the MISTRAL facility's commissioning phase and its capabilities for scientific investigation.
Commissioning of the MISTRAL instrument at the Sardinia Radio Telescope.
Monitoring current status and performance metrics.
Evaluating operations conducted during the first year of use.
MISTRAL achieves high sensitivity and competitive observational capabilities.
It operates effectively in a frequency range of 78-103 GHz.
Offers 12'' angular resolution with a 4' wide field of view.

Resumen

MISTRAL is a new facility instrument open to the scientific community that will help investigate the ’missing baryon’ problem, as well as many other scientific cases from extragalactic astrophysics to solar system science. The MIllimeter Sardinia radio Telescope Receiver based on Array of Lumped elements KIDs (MISTRAL) is a cryogenic W-band camera, operating at 90 GHz (frequency band 78-103 GHz), equipped with 415 LEKIDs which has been mounted at the Gregorian focus of the 64 m fully steerable radio telescope Sardinia Radio Telescope (SRT), in Italy, in May 2023. MISTRAL will take advantage of its 12 ′′ of angular resolution, a 4 ′ wide instantaneous field of view and its high sensitivity, which will make this camera one of the most competitive instrument to observe the mm-wave sky. MISTRAL is currently under technical commissioning and in this contribution we will report the current status and performances of the instrument as well as the operations done during the first year of technical commissioning.

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Barbavara et al. (Fri,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/699d3fc8de8e28729cf647fa https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202635301001/pdf

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