Dr. Marina Vela Nuñez Profile

Dr. Marina Vela Nuñez

at INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri

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Publications (15)

Proceedings Article | 26 August 2024 Poster + Paper

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Specifications and tolerancing for ARIEL’s aluminium primary mirror with mid-spatial-frequency errors

José Araiza-Durán, Paolo Chioetto, Anna Brucalassi, Andrea Tozzi, Enzo Pascale, Andrew Caldwell, Martin Caldwell, Dervis Vernani, Emanuele Pace, Antonio Scippa, Elisa Guerriero, Debora Ferruzzi, Paola Zuppella, Riccardo Lilli, Davide Bruzzi, Marina Vela Nuñez, Raffaele Piazzolla, Mario Salatti, Giampaolo Preti, Gianluca Morgante, Leonardo Tommasi

Proceedings Volume 13100, 131003L (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3019251

KEYWORDS: Tolerancing, Telescopes, Aluminum mirrors, Manufacturing, Mirrors, Point spread functions, Optical alignment, Wavefront errors, Zemax

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Proceedings Article | 23 August 2024 Poster + Paper

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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

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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

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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

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The application software for the instrument control unit of the Ariel mission: report on the development status

Sebastiano Ligori, Leonardo Corcione, Vito Capobianco, Donata Bonino, Mauro Focardi, Anna Di Giorgio, Marina Vela Nunez, Vladimiro Noce, Pierpaolo Merola, Maria Farina, Natalia Auricchio

Proceedings Volume 13092, 130924D (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3017943

KEYWORDS: Equipment, Sensors, Space operations, Telescopes, Software development, Control systems, Operating systems, Exoplanets

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Proceedings Article | 23 August 2024 Poster + Paper

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The instrument control unit of the AIRS instrument on-board the ARIEL mission: design status after PDR

Vladimiro Noce, Mauro Focardi, Pierpaolo Merola, Marina Vela Nunez, Anna Maria Di Giorgio, Sebastiano Ligori, Vito Capobianco, Leonardo Corcione, Donata Bonino, Natalia Auricchio, Maria Farina, Luca Serafini, Alessandra Tortora, Alessio Pannocchia, Marco Verna, Emanuele Pace, Giampaolo Preti, Enzo Pascale, Paul Eccleston, Salma Fahmy, Lucile Desjonqueres, Alexander Davidson, Elisabetta Tommasi, Fulvio De Persio, Delphine Jollet, Ludovic Puig, Giuseppina Micela, Giuseppe Malaguti, Giovanna Tinetti

Proceedings Volume 13092, 130924C (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3017776

KEYWORDS: Equipment, Design, Field programmable gate arrays, Data communications, Infrared spectroscopy, Telescopes, Spectroscopy, Space operations, Sensors

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Proceedings Article | 23 August 2024 Poster + Paper

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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 | 25 July 2024 Poster + Paper

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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 | 27 August 2022 Paper

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The PLATO instrument control unit software: a model based SW architecture

Emanuele Galli, Giovanni Giusi, Andrea Russi, Fabrizio De Angelis, Maria Farina, Scige Liu, Anna Maria Di Giorgio, Stefano Pezzuto, Mauro Focardi, Marina Vela Nuñez, Rosario Cosentino

Proceedings Volume 12180, 121804P (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630056

KEYWORDS: Instrument modeling, Computer architecture

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Proceedings Article | 27 August 2022 Poster + Paper

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The instrument control unit of the ARIEL payload: design evolution following the unit and payload subsystems SRR (system requirements review)

Vladimiro Noce, Mauro Focardi, Anna Maria Di Giorgio, Emanuele Galli, Maria Farina, Giovanni Giusi, Marina Vela Nunez, Luca Naponiello, Andrea Lorenzani, Luca Serafini, Carlo Del Vecchio Blanco, Marco Verna, Cristophe Cara, Michel Berthé, Jerome Martignac, Roland Ottensamer, Giuseppina Micela, Giuseppe Malaguti, Emanuele Pace, Giampaolo Preti, Federico Miceli, Enzo Pascale, Giovanna Tinetti, Paul Eccleston, Elisabetta Tommasi, Fulvio De Persio, Pietro Bolli, Renzo Nesti, Marcella Iuzzolino, Luca Carbonaro, Ciro Del Vecchio, Debora Ferruzzi, Anna Brucalassi, Gilberto Falcini, Andrea Tozzi, Daniele Gottini

Proceedings Volume 12180, 1218043 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2628172

KEYWORDS: Space operations, Infrared spectroscopy, Control systems, Spectroscopy, Telescopes, Infrared radiation, Power supplies, Space telescopes

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Proceedings Article | 27 August 2022 Poster + Paper

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Preliminary surface charging analysis of Ariel payload dielectrics in early transfer orbit and L2-relevant space environment

M. Focardi, M. Michelagnoli, V. Noce, M. Vela Nunez, P. Bolli, R. Nesti, A. Lorenzani, L. Carbonaro, C. Del Vecchio, G. Falcini, A. Tozzi, A, Di Giorgio, E. Galli, M. Farina, G. Giusi, S. Liu, M. Venter, E. Tommasi, F. De Persio, M. Salatti, D. Brienza, R. Piazzolla, G. Morgante, N. Auricchio, E. Pascale, L. Naponiello, G. Redigonda, E. Pace, G. Preti, G. Micela, G. Malaguti, P. Eccleston, A. Caldwell, G. Bishop, L. Desjonqueres, G. Tinetti

Proceedings Volume 12180, 1218047 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2628170

KEYWORDS: Space operations, Plasma, Dielectrics, Electrons, Solar processes, Ions, Particles, Satellites, Spectroscopy, Information technology

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Proceedings Article | 27 August 2022 Presentation + Paper

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PLATO: the status of the instrument control unit following its critical design review

Rosario Cosentino, Mauro Focardi, Emanuele Galli, Manfred Steller, Carlo Del Vecchio Blanco, Stefano Pezzuto, Giovanni Giusi, Anna Maria Di Giorgio, David Biondi, Harald Jeszenszky, Harald Ottacher, Gunter Laky, Luca Serafini, Dominik Loidolt, Roland Ottensamer, Andrea Russi, Marina Vela Nuñez, Armin Luntzer, Franz Kerschbaum

Proceedings Volume 12180, 121801B (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2628548

KEYWORDS: Cameras, Field programmable gate arrays, Double positive medium, Space operations, Stars, Thermal modeling, Image compression, Interfaces, Control systems, Data processing

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PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) is the third medium-class mission (M3), selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) in 2014 and adopted in 2017 for the Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 scientific program. The launch is scheduled in 2026 from the French Guiana (Kourou) for a nominal in-orbit lifetime of 4 years plus up to 4 years of possible extension. The main purpose of the mission is the discovery and preliminary characterization of many different types of exoplanets down to rocky terrestrial planets orbiting around bright solar-type stars. The PLATO spacecraft will operate from a halo orbit around L2 (the Sun-Earth 2nd Lagrangian Point), a virtual point in space, 1.5 million km beyond Earth as seen from the Sun and its Payload will consist of 26 small telescopes (24 normal and 2 fast), pointing at the same target stars, that provide images every 25 seconds with the normal camera and every 2.5 seconds for the two fast cameras, operating in a close loop with the AOCS (S/C Attitude and Orbit Control System). Each camera (consisting of a telescope, the Focal Plane Assembly and its Front-End Electronics) will host four CCDs producing 20.3 megapixels images adding up to 81.4 megapixels per normal camera and 2.11 gigapixels for the overall Payload (P/L). This huge amount of data cannot be transmitted to the ground and need to be processed on-board by the P/L Data Processing System (DPS) made up of various processing electronic units. The DPS of the PLATO instrument comprises the Normal and Fast DPUs (Data Processing Units) and a single ICU (Instrument Control Unit), in charge of HW and SW lossless data compression and managing the P/L through a SpaceWire (SpW) network. In this paper we will review the status of the Instrument Control Unit (ICU) after its Critical Design Review (CDR) process, performed by ESA and PMC (PLATO Mission Consortium), the results of the performance test preliminary run on the Engineering Model (EM), waiting for the following Engineering and Qualification Model (EQM) and Proto-Flight Model (PFM), and the status of the early models development (Engineering Models 1 and 2, Mass and Thermal Dummy - MTD) that, along with the Boot SW (BSW) burning in PROM readiness, will enable the EQM manufacturing.

Proceedings Article | 27 August 2022 Poster + Paper

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The detector control unit of the fine guidance sensor instrument on-board the ARIEL mission: design status

Vladimiro Noce, Mauro Focardi, Marina Vela Nunez, Luca Naponiello, Andrea Lorenzani, Raoul Grimoldi, Elio Mangraviti, Luca Carli, Kamil Ber, Miroslaw Rataj, Konrad Rutkowski, Konrad Skup, Przemyslaw Nita, Giuseppina Micela, Giuseppe Malaguti, Natalia Auricchio, Emanuele Pace, Giampaolo Preti, Enzo Pascale, Giovanna Tinetti, Paul Eccleston, Elisabetta Tommasi, Mario Salatti, Raffaele Piazzolla, Pietro Bolli, Renzo Nesti, Marcella Iuzzolino, Luca Carbonaro, Ciro Del Vecchio, Debora Ferruzzi, Federico Miceli, Anna Brucalassi, Gilberto Falcini, Andrea Tozzi, Daniele Gottini

Proceedings Volume 12180, 1218046 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2628327

KEYWORDS: Field programmable gate arrays, Electronics, Data processing, Power supplies, Image processing, Infrared imaging, Space telescopes, Exoplanets, Infrared spectroscopy, Photometry

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Proceedings Article | 27 August 2022 Poster + Paper

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PLATO payload, big data PUS packets classifier and astronomical digital imagette data decompression

M. Vela Nuñez, E. Galli, D. Loidolt, C. Ziemke, A. Pannocchia, V. Noce, C. del Vecchio Blanco, M. Focardi, R. Cosentino

Proceedings Volume 12180, 121804O (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2628230

KEYWORDS: Image compression, Stars, CCD cameras, Thulium, Cameras, Space operations, Planets, Image transmission, Image processing, Astronomy

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Proceedings Article | 26 July 2016 Paper

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SKA CSP controls: technological challenges

C. Baffa, E. Giani, S. Vrcic, M. Vela Nuñez

Proceedings Volume 9913, 99132Z (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2233325

KEYWORDS: Control systems, Signal processing, Antennas, Prototyping, Telescopes, Human-machine interfaces, Data processing, Software development, Astronomy, Visibility

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