SOLARIS: a smart Solar imaging system at high radio frequency for continuous Solar monitoring and Space Weather applications

Solaris is a scientific and technological project aimed at developing a smart Solar monitoring system at high radio frequencies based on single-dish imaging techniques (https://sites.google.com/inaf.it/solaris). It combines the implementation of dedicated and interchangeable high-frequency receivers on existing small single-dish radio telescope systems (1.5/2.6m class) available in our laboratories and in Antarctica, to be adapted for Solar observations. Solaris can perform continuous Solar imaging observations nearly 20h/day during the Antarctic summer with optimal sky opacity, and it will be the only Solar facility offering continuous monitoring at 100 GHz. In the future, our system could also be implemented in the northern hemisphere to offer Solar monitoring throughout the year.

Brief CV of Dr. A. Pellizzoni:

Dr. A. Pellizzoni’s education and professional career have primarily focused on scientific research in the field of relativistic astrophysics and particles, and on participating in the development of astronomical instruments and data analysis systems, in collaboration with major national research bodies such as CNR, ASI, and INAF, where he has been serving as a researcher since 2000. His scientific activity is mainly connected to multi-frequency studies (from radio to gamma rays) of compact galactic sources like Neutron Stars and Black Holes and their circumstellar environment (Pulsar Wind Nebulae, Supernova Remnants), and more recently to multidisciplinary studies of Solar Physics. A significant part of his career has been dedicated to research and development of innovative research lines that could exploit and enhance the peculiarities of the scientific instruments he has worked on. Among these, the conception and development of innovative single-dish radio imaging techniques of the solar chromosphere/corona, in collaboration with a group of young researchers at INAF within the “Solaris” project, of which he is the Principal Investigator, deserves mention.