Attività scientifica

The detection and characterization of X-ray periodic signals play a role of paramount importance in the process of identifying new compact objects or new classes of them, and studying the

E’ un giorno importante per l’astronomia, questo. Senza esagerare, possiamo dire che è la prima e decisiva tappa di un percorso che si accompagnerà per diversi anni. Il primo catalogo di GAIA

Pulsar discovered in the Andromeda galaxy by the OAR EXTraS team. For general (non-technical) information about this discovery, see here, for all the details see here. Digging Up the Hidden

OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretations, Resource Identification, Security – Regolith EXplorer) è una missione selezionata nell’ambito del programma NASA New-Frontiers per prelevare e riportare a Terra un campione di materiale di

Within the framework of the CTA international project, INAF is leading the ASTRI (Astrofisica con Specchi a Tecnologia Replicante Italiana) Project. The main goals of the project are the realization

Meeting announcement The amazing life of stars: from the Main Sequence to the Gravitational Wave emission Coordinators: E. Brocato(1), F.R. Ferraro(2), M. Limongi(1), L. Burderi(3) Cefalù (Sicily, Italy), September 4-8, 2017   (1) INAF –

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) Project is a worldwide project aimed to build the next generation Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescope (IACT) devoted to reveal very high energy gamma-rays from astrophysical

Athena (Advanced Telescope for High ENergy Astrophysics) is the future large-class X-ray Observatory selected by ESA to study the Hot and Energetic Universe. It is due for launch in 2028.

The NUclear Spectroscopic Telescope ARray (NuSTAR) mission is a NASA Explorer launched in 2012. It is the first hard X-ray focusing satellite. For this reason is hundreds of times more

The WISE/SDSS-selected hyper-luminous quasar (WISSH) survey is an extensive multi-band observing program (from millimeter wavelengths to hard X-rays) to investigate the role of nuclear activity in SMBH-galaxy self-regulated growth via extended