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Gen

mar

Visita Sant’Anna per ESPIN2020

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Gen 21@10:00–13:00

Categorie: Museo

Seminario: Elisa Guerriero (UNIPA), aula Osservatorio ore 15:00

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Gen 21@15:00–16:30

Speaker: Elisa Guerriero (UNIPA)

Titolo: Development polishing process for bare aluminum mirrors to ARIEL space mission

Abstract: ARIEL is the 4th medium-class mission of ESA’s Cosmic Vision Programme to see and to study the exoplanets’ atmospheres in VIS/IR. The technical innovation of the project is the use of bare aluminum for the mirrors. This material is light, cheap, and available in large quantities, but difficult to polish because it is not very dense. In this seminar, I will talk about my work at Media Lario S.r.l. for the development of the aluminum polishing process, the critical issues and the results obtained.

Categorie: Aula: Seminario

Gen

mer

Ricevimento studenti – Argiroffi

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Gen 22@15:00–17:00

Categorie: Aula: Ricevimento studenti

Visita Fallen Fruit al Museo

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Gen 22@15:00–16:00

Categorie: Museo

Gen

ven

Visita alternanza Rubino

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Gen 24@9:00–13:00

Categorie: Museo

Sopralluogo per documentazione Ramsden

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Gen 24@15:00–17:00

Categorie: Museo

Gen

mar

Visita Museo_15 pax ca

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Gen 28@8:30–12:00

Categorie: Museo

Gen

ven

CS-INAF@OAPa: seduta a porte chiuse

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Gen 31@14:30–18:30

Categorie: Museo

Feb

mer

Visita-prova ESPIN2020

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Feb 12@9:30–13:00

Categorie: Aula: Riunione Museo

Seminario: Darius Modirrousta Galian (UNIPA), 12 Febbraio 2020 ore 15:00 Aula OAPA

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Feb 12@15:00–16:30

Speaker: Darius Modirrousta Galian (UNIPA)

Titolo: Exploring Super-Earth Surfaces: Albedo of Near-Airless Magma Ocean Planets and Topography

Abstract:

In this paper we propose an analytic function for the bond albedo of an airless or near-airless magma ocean planet (AMOP). We generated multiple 100 m wide 1D fractal surfaces unto which we individually bombarded 10,000 light rays. Using an approximate form of the Fresnel equations we measured how much of the incident light was reflected. Having repeated this algorithm on varying surface roughnesses we find the albedo as a function of the Hurst exponent, the geochemical composition of the magma, and the wavelength. As a proof of concept, we used our model on Kepler-10 b to demonstrate the applicability of our equations. We present the albedos of different lava compositions and multiple tests that can be applied to observational data in order to determine the characteristics of the lava. When applied to Kepler-10 b we show that the high albedo could be caused by a moderately wavy ocean composed of oxidised metallic species such as FeO, Fe2O3, Fe3O4, and some silicates. This would imply that Kepler-10 b is a coreless or near-coreless body. However, since the uncertainty in albedo measurements is large there is a strong degeneracy in the surface composition.

Categorie: Aula: Seminario

gennaio – febbraio 2020 Gen – Feb 2020