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Marco De Petris
Research Interest
• Observational
Cosmology, mainly focused on studying Cosmic Microwave Background radiation
anisotropies.
• Clusters of galaxies
science with cosmological implications by Sunyaev-Zel’dovich
Effect observations and simulations.
• Optical design for
dedicated CMB observations at millimetre and sub-millimetre wavelengths.
• Site testing at
millimetre and FIR wavelengths: instrument design and data analysis.
• Experimental techniques
and observational strategies for cosmological and astrophysical observations,
photometric and interferometric, at millimetre and far infrared regions of
the spectrum.
• Instruments development
for ground based, balloon borne and satellite projects.
Current and Past Projects participations
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MUSIC
MUltidark SImulations
of galaxy Clusters
Member of the collaboration: SZ Effect team
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The MUSIC
project consists of two sets of resimulated
cluster of galaxies extracted from MareNostrum
and MULTIDARK, two large volume hydrodynamic simulations of the Universe.
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CASPER
Concordia Atmospheric Spectroscopy of Emitted
Radiation
PI
of the project
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A spectrometer
devoted to measure atmospheric emission in the mm/FIR band (90GHz –
450GHz) at Concordia Station, the Italian-French Antarctic base in Dome C.
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QUBIC
Q&U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology
Optics
Group Coordinator
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A ground
based bolometric interferometer to measure the B modes of the polarised CMB
fluctuations.
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NIKA2
New Instrument of Kids Arrays
Core Team
Member and member of the LP SZ team
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The New Instrument
of Kids Arrays is the next generation continuum instrument installed at the
30m telescope of IRAM, at Pico Veleta (Spain).
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EUCLID
Full
member of the EUCLID Consortium
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Euclid is
an ESA medium class astronomy and astrophysics space mission. The Euclid
mission aims at understanding why the expansion of the Universe is
accelerating and what is the nature of the source responsible for this
acceleration which physicists refer to as dark energy.
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MITO
Millimeter & Infrared Testa Grigia Observatory
Status:
currently not operational
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A ground based
millimetre and submillimetre 2.6-m telescope on the top of Alps which
hosted, or planned to be, several instruments at the focal plane: FotoMITO, MASTER, FotoPola
and MAD.
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OLIMPO
Optics group member
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A
balloon-borne 2.6-m telescope to explore SZ effect and FIR backgrounds.
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LSPE
Large Scale Polarization Explorer
SWIPE -
Optics group member
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A
balloon-borne experiment devoted to CMB B-mode observations.
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SAGACE
Spectroscopic Active Galaxies And
Clusters Explorer
Project Office Telescope
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A small
mission satellite devoted to observe Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect, sub-mm spectroscopy of
galaxies and low-resolution survey of Active Galaxies. Study of Phase A Italian Space Agency.
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PRISM
Polarized Radiation Imaging and Spectroscopy
Mission
Project Office Telescope
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A large class satellite mission in response to the 2013 ESA Call
for the definition of L2 and L3 missions in the ESA Science Programme
devoted to probe cosmic structures and radiation with the ultimate characterization
of the microwave sky in intensity, polarization, and frequency spectrum.
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