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Description
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 LEKID camera 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 arcseconds of angular resolution, a 4 arcminutes 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. Given that MISTRAL is currently under commissioning, the development of a reliable and efficient map-making and data filtering software is necessary for the analysis of its first acquired data of the sky. I will describe the current status of the commissioning and the first observations, with details on the calibration and the current state of the map-making and data filtering pipeline. This software aims to analyse the data efficiently and quickly, filtering them from instrumental and atmospheric noises and produce a map. The data filtering process employs a customized technique for common mode and a destriping technique in order to mitigate different kinds of systematic effects.
| Would you be interested in presenting a poster if the conference is oversubcribed? | Yes |
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