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Unlocking the secrets of the Universe V. Giorgio Director for Science TAS-IPadova, Jan 9 th- 10 th - 2010. The Big Bang. Unlocking the secrets of the Universe. What does it mean for the person in the street ?. Unlocking the secrets of the Universe. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Unlocking the secrets of the Universe
V. GiorgioDirector for Science TAS-I Padova, Jan 9th-10th - 2010
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Unlocking the secrets of the Universe
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Unlocking the secrets of the Universe
What does it mean for the person in the street ?
Finding Earth’s and humanity’s place in the universe
How did we get from the Big Bang to Here and Now?
Are there worlds elsewhere?
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Launch : 14 May 2009 at 13:12:02 UTC, from Kourou CSGLauncher: One Ariane 5 ECA
Planck : lower position, inside the Sylda 5 adapter Herschel : upper position, above the adapter
Destination : Lagrange point L2, 1.5 million km away from the Earth, on Earth’s shadow side
The Herschel & Planck launcher
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Unlocking the secrets of the Universe
Herschel Planck
Herschel and Planck – two technological jewels
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COROT: 3 years in orbit
The COROT space telescope, launched on December 27th, 2006, is an astronomy mission led by CNES. Thales Alenia Space supplied the PROTEUS platform and the 27-cm diameter telescope.
Corot-7b, announced on February 3, 2009 in Paris, is the smallest terrestrial planet ever detected outside our solar system. Less than twice the size of Earth, it orbits a Sun-like star; its temperature is so high that it may be covered in lava or water vapor.
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The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is one of the largest ground-based astronomy projects of the next decade. It will be an interferometer consisting of at least 66 antennas located on the Chajnantor Altiplano in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile at 5000m altitude.
TAS contribution to ALMA
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ALMA is a partnership between the scientific communities of East Asia, Europe and North America with Chile. Thales Alenia Space works in a consortium supplying 25 ALMA antennas, with options to increase the number of antennas to 32.
ALMA Present…
… and future
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Past astrophysics satellites of TAS also include:- BeppoSAX (ASI with NIVR), a hard X-ray observatory, which solved the enigma of the origin of gamma-ray bursts by revealing their X-ray afterglow- INTEGRAL (ESA), in operation since 2002, which has opened a new era in a gamma-ray astronomy. The latest discoveries include galactic positron annihilation, Soft Gamma Repeaters, magnetars, the origin of high-energy emission from Crab Nebula… just to name a few.
TAS science highlights
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BeppoSAX
Integral
Morphology of the Crab nebula by Integral
BeppoSax follow-up of GRB970228 afterglow
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HUYGENS
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EXOMARS
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Unlocking the secrets of the Universe
V. GiorgioDirector for Science TAS-I Padova, Jan 9th-10th - 2010
