Dr. Francesco Borsa Profile

Dr. Francesco Borsa

at INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera

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Proceedings Article | 29 August 2022 Presentation + Paper

ANDES, the high resolution spectrograph for the ELT: science case, baseline design and path to construction

A. Marconi, M. Abreu, V. Adibekyan, V. Alberti, S. Albrecht, J. Alcaniz, M. Aliverti, C. Allende Prieto, J. D. Alvarado Gómez, P. J. Amado, M. Amate, M. I. Andersen, E. Artigau, C. Baker, V. Baldini, A. Balestra, S. A. Barnes, F. Baron, S. C. C. Barros, S. M. Bauer, M. Beaulieu, O. Bellido-Tirado, B. Benneke, T. Bensby, E. A. Bergin, K. Biazzo, A. Bik, J. L. Birkby, N. Blind, I. Boisse, E. Bolmont, M. Bonaglia, X. Bonfils, F. Borsa, A. Brandeker, W. Brandner, C. H. Broeg, M. Brogi, D. Brousseau, A. Brucalassi, J. Brynnel, L. A. Buchhave, D. F. Buscher, A. Cabral, G. Calderone, R. Calvo-Ortega, B. L. Canto Martins, F. Cantalloube, L. Carbonaro, G. Chauvin, B. Chazelas, A.-L. Cheffot, Y. S. Cheng, A. Chiavassa, L. Christensen, R. Cirami, N. J. Cook, R. J. Cooke, I. Coretti, S. Covino, N. Cowan, G. Cresci, S. Cristiani, V. Cunha Parro, G. Cupani, V. D'Odorico, I. de Castro Leão, A. De Cia, J. R. De Medeiros, F. Debras, M. Debus, O. Demangeon, M. Dessauges-Zavadsky, P. Di Marcantonio, F. Dionies, R. Doyon, J. Dunn, D. Ehrenreich, J. P. Faria, C. Feruglio, M. Fisher, A. Fontana, M. Fumagalli, T. Fusco, J. Fynbo, O. Gabella, W. Gaessler, E. Gallo, X. Gao, L. Genolet, M. Genoni, P. Giacobbe, E. Giro, R. S. Gonçalves, O. Gonzalez, J. I. González Hernández, F. Gracia Témich, M. G. Haehnelt, C. Haniff, A. Hatzes, R. Helled, H.J. Hoeijmakers, P. Huke, S. Järvinen, A. Järvinen, A. Kaminski, A. Korn, D. Kouach, G. Kowzan, L. Kreidberg, M. Landoni, A. Lanotte, A. Lavail, J. Li, J. Liske, C. Lovis, S. Lucatello, D. Lunney, M. MacIntosh, N. Madhusudhan, L. Magrini, R. Maiolino, L. Malo, A. Man, T. Marquart, E. L. Marques, A. M. Martins, C. J. A. P. Martins, P. Maslowski, C. Mason, E. Mason, R. A. McCracken, P. Mergo, G. Micela, T. Mitchell, P. Mollière, M. Monteiro, D. Montgomery, C. Mordasini, J. Morin, A. Mucciarelli, M. T. Murphy, M. N'Diaye, B. Neichel, A. T. Niedzielski, E. Niemczura, L. Nortmann, P. Noterdaeme, N. Nunes, L. Oggioni, E. Oliva, H. Önel, L. Origlia, G. Östlin, E. Palle, P. Papaderos, G. Pariani, J. Peñate Castro, F. Pepe, L. Perreault Levasseur, P. Petit, L. Pino, J. Piqueras, A. Pollo, K. Poppenhaeger, A. Quirrenbach, E. Rauscher, R. Rebolo, E. M. A. Redaelli, S. Reffert, D. T. Reid, A. Reiners, P. Richter, M. Riva, S. Rivoire, C. Rodríguez-López, I. U. Roederer, D. Romano, S. Rousseau, J. Rowe, S. Salvadori, N. Santos, P. Santos Diaz, J. Sanz-Forcada, M. Sarajlic, J.-F. Sauvage, S. Schäfer, R. P. Schiavon, T. M. Schmidt, C. Selmi, S. Sivanandam, M. Sordet, R. Sordo, F. Sortino, D. Sosnowska, S. G. Sousa, E. Stempels, K. G. Strassmeier, A. Suárez Mascareño, A. Sulich, X. Sun, N.R. Tanvir, F. Tenegi-Sanginés, S. Thibault, S. J. Thompson, A. Tozzi, M. Turbet, P. Vallée, R. Varas, K. Venn, J.-P. Véran, A. Verma, M. Viel, G. Wade, C. Waring, M. Weber, J. Weder, B. Wehbe, J. Weingrill, M. Woche, M. Xompero, E. Zackrisson, A. Zanutta, M. R. Zapatero Osorio, M. Zechmeister, J. Zimara

Proceedings Volume 12184, 1218424 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2628689

KEYWORDS: Physics, Spectrographs, Stars, Astronomy, Galactic astronomy, Astrophysics, Exoplanets, Planets, Spectral resolution, Absorption

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Proceedings Article | 27 August 2022 Presentation + Paper

PLATO EM first cryogenic vacuum test campaign PSF results

Francesco Borsa, Andrea Cottinelli, Nicolas Gorius, Claudio Arena, Bart Vandenbussche, Sara Regibo, Rik Huygen, Pierre Royer, Martin Pertenais, Cesar Martin, Thierry Appourchaux, Jose Lorenzo Alvarez, Tim van Kempen, Wouter Laauwen, Isabella Pagano, Roberto Ragazzoni

Proceedings Volume 12180, 121801D (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630118

KEYWORDS: Point spread functions, Cameras, Space operations, Error analysis, Cryogenics, Stars, Data analysis, Charge-coupled devices, Telescopes

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Proceedings Article | 25 August 2022 Presentation + Paper

The TOU of the PLATO mission from a product assurance point of view

Simonetta Chinellato, Natalia Auricchio, Giovanni Postiglione, Joseph Huesler, Timothy Bandy, Enrico Battistelli, Guido Buonanno, Francesco Borsa, Alexis Brandeker, Daniele Brienza, Flavia Calderone, Virginie Cessa, Giacomo Dinuzzi, Jacopo Farinato, Mauro Ferrero, Riccardo Liaci, Demetrio Magrin, Luca Marafatto, Matteo Munari, Marco Nebiolo, Andrea Novi, Isabella Pagano, Daniele Piazza, Roberto Ragazzoni, Mario Salatti, Francesco Santoli, Antonio Saverino, Madine Simoncini, Valentina Viotto, Donata Valletti

Proceedings Volume 12187, 1218711 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630416

KEYWORDS: Contamination, Manufacturing, Cameras, Space operations, Picture Archiving and Communication System, Optics manufacturing, Materials processing, Telescopes, Inspection, Contamination control

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Proceedings Article | 15 December 2020 Poster + Paper

Product assurance for the PLATO Telescope optical unit

Simonetta Chinellato, Giovanni Postiglione, Timothy Bandy, Enrico Battistelli, Maria Bergomi, Federico Biondi, Francesco Borsa, Flavia Calderone, Virginie Cessa, Jacopo Farinato, Davide Greggio, Demetrio Magrin, Luca Marafatto, Francesca Molendini, Matteo Munari, Silvia Natalucci, Andrea Novi, Isabella Pagano, Daniele Piazza, Roberto Ragazzoni, Mario Salatti, Valentina Viotto

Proceedings Volume 11443, 114434R (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561031

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Stars, Optomechanical design, Safety, Exoplanets, Cameras, Optical telescopes, Lenses, Interfaces, Materials processing

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Proceedings Article | 6 July 2018 Paper

PLATO: the ESA mission for exo-planets discovery

Demetrio Magrin, Roberto Ragazzoni, Heike Rauer, Isabella Pagano, Valerio Nascimbeni, Giampaolo Piotto, Valentina Viotto, Daniele Piazza, Timothy Bandy, Stefano Basso, Willy Benz, Maria Bergomi, Federico Biondi, Francesco Borsa, Anko Börner, Alexis Brandeker, Mathias Brändli, Giordano Bruno, Juan Cabrera, Flavia Calderone, Virginie Cessa, Simonetta Chinellato, Thierry De Roche, Marco Dima, Anders Erikson, Jacopo Farinato, Mauro Ghigo, Davide Greggio, Maximilian Klebor, Luca Marafatto, Matteo Munari, Valery Mogulsky, Martin Pertenais, Gisbert Peter, Elisa Portaluri, Martin Rieder, Steve Rockstein, Mario Schweitzer, Daniela Sicilia, Gabriele Umbriaco, Matthias Wieser, Ana Heras, Filippo Marliani, Simone Pirrotta, Mario Salatti, Elisabetta Tommasi, Riccardo Bardazzi, Enrico Battistelli, Mauro Brotini, Matteo Burresi, Emanuele Capuano, Massimo Marinai, Andrea Novi, Claude Català

Proceedings Volume 10698, 106984X (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2313538

KEYWORDS: Cameras, Planets, Stars, Exoplanets, Space telescopes, Telescopes, Optical filters, Lenses, Space operations

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Proceedings Article | 9 August 2016 Paper

SIOUX project: a simultaneous multiband camera for exoplanet atmospheres studies

Jean Marc Christille, Aldo Stefano Bonomo, Francesco Borsa, Deborah Busonero, Paolo Calcidese, Riccardo Claudi, Mario Damasso, Paolo Giacobbe, Emilio Molinari, Emanuele Pace, Alberto Riva, Alesandro Sozzetti, Giorgio Toso, Daniela Tresoldi

Proceedings Volume 9908, 990857 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2233643

KEYWORDS: Exoplanets, Prototyping, Near infrared, Planets, Telescopes, Device simulation, Stars, Space telescopes, Sodium, Cameras

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The exoplanet revolution is well underway. The last decade has seen order-of-magnitude increases in the number of known planets beyond the Solar system. Detailed characterization of exoplanetary atmospheres provide the best means for distinguishing the makeup of their outer layers, and the only hope for understanding the interplay between initial composition chemistry, temperature-pressure atmospheric profiles, dynamics and circulation. While pioneering work on the observational side has produced the first important detections of atmospheric molecules for the class of transiting exoplanets, important limitations are still present due to the lack of systematic, repeated measurements with optimized instrumentation at both visible (VIS) and near-infrared (NIR) wavelengths. It is thus of fundamental importance to explore quantitatively possible avenues for improvements. In this paper we report initial results of a feasibility study for the prototype of a versatile multi-band imaging system for very high-precision differential photometry that exploits the choice of specifically selected narrow-band filters and novel ideas for the execution of simultaneous VIS and NIR measurements. Starting from the fundamental system requirements driven by the science case at hand, we describe a set of three opto-mechanical solutions for the instrument prototype: 1) a radial distribution of the optical flux using dichroic filters for the wavelength separation and narrow-band filters or liquid crystal filters for the observations; 2) a tree distribution of the optical flux (implying 2 separate foci), with the same technique used for the beam separation and filtering; 3) an 'exotic' solution consisting of the study of a complete optical system (i.e. a brand new telescope) that exploits the chromatic errors of a reflecting surface for directing the different wavelengths at different foci. In this paper we present the first results of the study phase for the three solutions, as well as the results of two laboratory prototypes (related to the first two options), that simulate the most critical aspects of the future instrument.

Proceedings Article | 29 July 2016 Paper

Thermal effects on PLATO point spread function

Marco Gullieuszik, Demetrio Magrin, Davide Greggio, Roberto Ragazzoni, Valerio Nascimbeni, Maria Bergomi, Federico Biondi, Simonetta Chinellato, Marco Dima, Jacopo Farinato, Luca Marafatto, Valentina Viotto, Matteo Munari, Isabella Pagano, Daniela Sicilia, Stefano Basso, Francesco Borsa, Mauro Ghigo, Daniele Spiga, Thimoty Bandy, Willy Benz, Mathias Brändli, Giordano Bruno, Thierry De Roche, Daniele Piazza, Martin Rieder, Alexis Brandeker, Maximilian Klebor, Valery Mogulsky, Mario Schweitzer, Matthias Wieser, Anders Erikson, Heike Rauer

Proceedings Volume 9904, 990431 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232998

KEYWORDS: Space telescopes, Stars, Thermal effects, Telescopes, Point spread functions, Calibration, Zernike polynomials, Staring arrays, Electroluminescent displays, Optical components

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Proceedings Article | 29 July 2016 Paper

Radiation, Thermal Gradient and Weight: a threefold dilemma for PLATO

Demetrio Magrin, Roberto Ragazzoni, Giordano Bruno, Daniele Piazza, Francesco Borsa, Mauro Ghigo, Valery Mogulsky, Maria Bergomi, Federico Biondi, Simonetta Chinellato, Marco Dima, Jacopo Farinato, Davide Greggio, Marco Gullieuszik, Luca Marafatto, Valentina Viotto, Matteo Munari, Isabella Pagano, Daniela Sicilia, Stefano Basso, Daniele Spiga, Timothy Bandy, Mathias Brändli, Willy Benz, Thierry De Roche, Martin Rieder, Alexis Brandeker, Maximilian Klebor, Mario Schweitzer, Matthias Wieser, Anders Erikson, Heike Rauer

Proceedings Volume 9904, 990430 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232579

KEYWORDS: Planetary systems, Space telescopes, Telescopes, Lenses, Planetary systems, Optical components, Space telescopes, Cameras, Glasses, Calcium, Space operations, Sun

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Proceedings Article | 29 July 2016 Paper

PLATO: a multiple telescope spacecraft for exo-planets hunting

Roberto Ragazzoni, Demetrio Magrin, Heike Rauer, Isabella Pagano, Valerio Nascimbeni, Giampaolo Piotto, Daniele Piazza, Patrick Levacher, Mario Schweitzer, Stefano Basso, Timothy Bandy, Willy Benz, Maria Bergomi, Federico Biondi, Anko Boerner, Francesco Borsa, Alexis Brandeker, Mathias Brändli, Giordano Bruno, Juan Cabrera, Simonetta Chinellato, Thierry De Roche, Marco Dima, Anders Erikson, Jacopo Farinato, Matteo Munari, Mauro Ghigo, Davide Greggio, Marco Gullieuszik, Maximilian Klebor, Luca Marafatto, Valery Mogulsky, Gisbert Peter, Martin Rieder, Daniela Sicilia, Daniele Spiga, Valentina Viotto, Matthias Wieser, Ana Maria Heras, Philippe Gondoin, Pierre Bodin, Claude Catala

Proceedings Volume 9904, 990428 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2236094

KEYWORDS: Space telescopes, Telescopes, Stars, Space operations, Planets, Aspheric lenses, Optical components, Exoplanets, Charge-coupled devices, Sensors

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Proceedings Article | 29 July 2016 Paper

Manufacturing and alignment tolerance analysis through Montecarlo approach for PLATO

Demetrio Magrin, Roberto Ragazzoni, Maria Bergomi, Federico Biondi, Simonetta Chinellato, Marco Dima, Jacopo Farinato, Davide Greggio, Marco Gullieuszik, Luca Marafatto, Valentina Viotto, Matteo Munari, Isabella Pagano, Daniela Sicilia, Stefano Basso, Francesco Borsa, Mauro Ghigo, Daniele Spiga, Timothy Bandy, Mathias Brändli, Willy Benz, Giordano Bruno, Thierry De Roche, Daniele Piazza, Martin Rieder, Alexis Brandeker, Maximilian Klebor, Valery Mogulsky, Mario Schweitzer, Matthias Wieser, Anders Erikson, Heike Rauer

Proceedings Volume 9904, 99042Z (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232565

KEYWORDS: Space telescopes, Telescopes, Tolerancing, Manufacturing, Optical alignment, Space telescopes, Tolerancing, Cameras, Staring arrays, Optics manufacturing, Optical components, Lenses

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SPIE Journal Paper | 4 August 2014 Open Access

Evaluation of the surface strength of glass plates shaped by hot slumping process

Laura Proserpio, Stefano Basso, Francesco Borsa, Oberto Citterio, Marta Civitani, Mauro Ghigo, Giovanni Pareschi, Bianca Salmaso, Giorgia Sironi, Daniele Spiga, Gianpiero Tagliaferri, Alberto D’Este, Roberto Dall’Igna, Mirko Silvestri, Giancarlo Parodi, Francesco Martelli, Marcos Bavdaz, Eric Wille

OE, Vol. 53, Issue 08, 085101, (August 2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.10.1117/1.OE.53.8.085101

KEYWORDS: Glasses, Mirrors, Failure analysis, Metals, X-ray optics, Finite element methods, X-ray telescopes, Optical engineering, Statistical analysis, Astronomy

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Proceedings Article | 17 September 2012 Paper

Development of high angular resolution x-ray telescopes based on slumped glass foils

M. Ghigo, S. Basso, F. Borsa, O. Citterio, M. Civitani, P. Conconi, G. Pagano, G. Pareschi, L. Proserpio, B. Salmaso, G. Sironi, D. Spiga, G. Tagliaferri, A. Zambra, G. Parodi, F. Martelli, D. Gallieni, M. Tintori, M. Bavdaz, E. Wille

Proceedings Volume 8443, 84430R (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.925975

KEYWORDS: Glasses, Optics manufacturing, Mirrors, X-ray optics, X-rays, Integrated optics, Metals, Observatories, Prototyping, X-ray telescopes

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