Dr. Simone Chiarucci Profile

Dr. Simone Chiarucci

at INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri

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Proceedings Article | 23 August 2024 Poster + Paper

Advancements and evolution of PLATO's instrument control unit: insights from engineering model performance testing to qualification model development

Rosario Cosentino, Mauro Focardi, Anna Maria Di Giorgio, Simone Chiarucci, Fabrizio De Angelis, Carlo Del Vecchio Blanco, Devitt Dini, Maria Farina, Giuseppe Giglio, Giovanni Giusi, Harald Jeszenszky, Gunter Laky, Scige John Liu, Dominik Loidolt, Armin Luntzer, Vladimiro Noce, Harald Ottacher, Roland Ottensamer, Alessio Pannocchia, Marco Passerai, Andrea Russi, Luca Serafini, Jorge Tonfat, Luca Toscano, Marina Vela Nuñez, Marco Verna

Proceedings Volume 13092, 1309247 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3019909

KEYWORDS: Performance modeling, Instrument modeling, Equipment, Engineering, Space operations, Image compression, Electromagnetism, Data processing, Vacuum, Thermal modeling

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Proceedings Article | 23 August 2024 Poster + Paper

The Ariel payload electrical and electronic architecture: a summary of the current design and implementation status

M. Focardi, V. Noce, P. Merola, A. Di Giorgio, S. Ligori, L. Corcione, V. Capobianco, D. Bonino, M. V. Nunez, S. Chiarucci, E. Medinaceli, N. Auricchio, M. Farina, G. Giusi, A. Russi, A. Tortora, L. Serafini, A. Pannocchia, G. Giglio, M. Passerai, M. Verna, C. Del Vecchio Blanco, G. Morgante, J. Ateca, J. Bosch, M. Carmona, A. Casas, J. Gomez, P. Lopez, L. Marti, A. Royo, O. Ruiz, C. Serre, K. Skup, K. Rutkowski, M. Sobiecki, K. Ber, M. Sobolewski, N. Thernstrom, M. Winklera, M. Ciarka, M. Berthé, C. Cara, J. Fontignie, J. Martignac, G. Kaszubiak, N. Leguay, R. Grimoldi, G. Ober, R. Goullioud, W. Holmes, M. Swain, G. Vasisht, H. Cho, J. Mulder, G. Allen, A. Runkle, E. Guzman, M. Weilert, C. Weber, P. Tan, J. Morales, J. Hunacek, A. Rieck, A. Bolduc, K. Aaron, A. Turner, B. Krohn, M. Lew, A. Cillis, R. Foltz, T. Hewagama, M. Loose, M. Crook, M. Hills, G. Gilley, S. Mäkinen, A. Caldwell, G. Bishop, L. Desjonqueres, R. Drummond, P. Eccleston, A. Davidson, P. Umesh, E. Pace, G. Preti, G. Micela, G. Malaguti, G. Tinetti

Proceedings Volume 13092, 1309249 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3018741

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Equipment, Field programmable gate arrays, Interfaces, Multiplexers, Design, Control systems, Spectroscopy, Space operations, Telescopes

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Proceedings Article | 23 August 2024 Poster + Paper

Consolidation of surface charging analyses on the Ariel payload dielectrics in the early transfer orbit and L2 space environments

M. Focardi, M. Michelagnoli, M. Pudney, I. Renouf, P. Merola, L. Carbonaro, V. Noce, M. Vela Nunez, P. Bolli, R. Nesti, S. Chiarucci, G. Dinuzzi, E. Tommasi, F. De Persio, M. Salatti, D. Brienza, R. Piazzolla, G. Morgante, E. Pace, G. Preti, G. Micela, G. Malaguti, A. Caldwell, P. Eccleston, G. Tinetti

Proceedings Volume 13092, 1309250 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3017998

KEYWORDS: Plasma, Solar processes, Simulations, Space operations, Electrons, Sun, Dielectrics, Particles, Ions, Sunlight

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Ariel (Atmospheric Remote Sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large Survey) [1] [2] is the fourth Mission (M4) of the ESA’s Cosmic Vision Program 2015-2025, selected in March 2018 and officially adopted in November 2020 by the Agency, whose aim is to characterize the atmospheres of hundreds of diverse exoplanets orbiting nearby different types of stars and to identify the key factors affecting the formation and evolution of planetary systems. The Mission will have a nominal duration of four years and a possible extension of two years at least. Its launch is presently scheduled for mid 2029 from the French Guiana Space Centre in Kourou on board an Ariane 6.2 launcher in a dual launch configuration with Comet Interceptor. The baseline operational orbit of the Ariel is a large amplitude halo orbit around the second Lagrangian (L2) virtual point located along the line joining the Sun and the Earth-Moon system at about 1.5 million km (~236 RE) from the Earth in the anti-Sun direction. Ariel’s halo orbit is designed to be an eclipse-free orbit as it offers the possibility of long uninterrupted observations in a fairly stable environment (thermal, radiation, etc.). An injection trajectory is foreseen with a single passage through the Van Allen radiation belts (LEO, MEO and GEO near-Earth environments). This is approximated by a worst-case half orbit, prior the injection and transfer to L2, with a duration of 10.5 hours, a perigee of 300 km (LEO), an apogee of 64000 km (GEO and beyond), and an inclination close to 0 degrees. During both the injection trajectory and the final orbit around L2, Ariel will encounter and interact mainly with the Sun radiation and the space plasma environment. In L2 the Ariel spacecraft will spend most of its time in the direct solar wind and the Earth’s magnetosheath with passages through the magnetotail. These three environments, along with LEO and GEO, can lead to the build-up of a net electric charge on the spacecraft and payload conductive and dielectric surfaces leading to the risk of Electro Static Discharges (ESD), potentially endangering the whole Payload integrity and telecommunications to Ground.

Proceedings Article | 23 August 2024 Poster + Paper

The PLATO ICU data compression chain: SW architecture and preliminary performance test results

Andrea Russi, Giovanni Giusi, Anna Maria Di Giorgio, Dominik Loidolt, Harald Ottacher, Simone Chiarucci, Scige Liu, Maria Farina, Fabrizio De Angelis, Mauro Focardi, Rosario Cosentino, Roland Ottensamer

Proceedings Volume 13092, 1309248 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020165

KEYWORDS: Data modeling, Image compression, Data processing, Data compression, Cameras, Satellites, Data acquisition, Algorithm development, Satellite communications, Performance modeling

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Proceedings Article | 23 August 2024 Poster + Paper

On-board control procedures for the PLATO space mission

Simone Chiarucci, Mauro Focardi, Anna Maria Di Giorgio, Rosario Cosentino, Giovanni Giusi, Andrea Russi, Scige John Liu, Marina Vela Nunez, Vladimiro Noce, Pierpaolo Merola

Proceedings Volume 13092, 1309246 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3018675

KEYWORDS: Space operations, Control systems, Software development

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Proceedings Article | 16 August 2024 Poster + Paper

Simulated radiation features of a C-band phased-array-feed located at the Sardinia Radio Telescope primary focus

Paola Di Ninni, Renzo Nesti, Paolo Maxia, Alessandro Navarrini, Massimiliano Belluso, Sergio Billotta, Alessandro Cabras, Simone Chiarucci, Giovanni Comoretto, Francesco Gaudiomonte, Adelaide Ladu, Pasqualino Marongiu, Andrea Melis, Pierluigi Ortu, Silvio Pilia, Tonino Pisanu, Luca Schirru

Proceedings Volume 13102, 131021E (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3019956

KEYWORDS: Reflectors, Spatial filtering, Mirrors, Simulations, Reflection, Radio telescopes, Prototyping, Phased arrays, Optical components, Electric fields

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Proceedings Article | 25 July 2024 Poster + Paper

Automation of the full functional tests by execution of the regression verification of the main functionalities of the boot software (BSW) of the PLATO payload

M. Vela Nuñez, A. Pannocchia, M. Focardi, C. del Vecchio Blanco, V. Noce, S. Chiarucci, A. Russi, G. Giusi, A. M. Di Giorgio, R. Cosentino

Proceedings Volume 13101, 131012Q (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3018407

KEYWORDS: Data processing, Technetium, Diagnostics, Control systems, Automation, Data communications, Thulium, Telecommunications, Design, Virtual reality

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Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Poster + Paper

The signal processing chain of the Low Frequency Aperture Array

Gianni Comoretto, Jader Monari, Carolina Belli, Simone Chiarucci, Francesco Schillirò, Marco Schiaffino, Federico Perini, Andrea Mattana, Monica Alderighi, Sergio d'Angelo, Sandro Pastore, Giovanni Naldi, Giuseppe Pupillo, Marco Poloni, Simone Rustichelli, Riccardo Chiello, Kris Zarb Adami, Alessio Magro

Proceedings Volume 11445, 1144571 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561699

KEYWORDS: Signal processing, Antennas, Telescopes, Network architectures, Electromagnetic coupling, Phased arrays, Electronic filtering, Filtering (signal processing), Calibration, Data processing

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Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Presentation + Paper

An end-to-end model for the correlator and beamformer of the Square Kilometer Array Low Frequency Aperture Array

Simone Chiarucci, Giovanni Comoretto

Proceedings Volume 11450, 1145003 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2560838

KEYWORDS: Signal processing, Optical correlators, Phased arrays, Electromagnetic coupling, Antennas, Analog electronics, Performance modeling, Statistical modeling, Optical simulations, Digital signal processing

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Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Poster + Paper

Design and prototyping of the Italian Tile Processing Module 1.6 (ITPM) for the low-frequency aperture array deployment

Francesco Schillirò, Monica Alderighi, Carolina Belli, Simone Chiarucci, Riccardo Chiello, Giovanni Comoretto, Sergio D'Angelo, Alessio Magro, Andrea Mattana, Jader Monari, Giovanni Naldi, Sandro Pastore, Federico Perini, Marco Poloni, Simone Rusticelli, Marco Schiaffino, Kris Zarb Adami

Proceedings Volume 11445, 1144574 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562085

KEYWORDS: Prototyping, Analog electronics, Signal processing, Electronic filtering, Digital filtering, Data conversion, Software development, Field programmable gate arrays, Polarization, Antennas

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