LFI Instrument Development Team

Overall Coordination

Marco Bersanelli: Instrument design coordination

Reginald Christopher Butler: Instrument management

Aniello Mennella: Calibration Plan coordination

Hardware Design and Development

70 GHz System Development

• Jussi Varis: FEM and BEM Project Manager
• Jussi Tuovinen: FEM and BEM Program Manager
• Nicholas Hughes: Ylinen FEM and BEM Industrial Development
• Todd Gaier: LNA procurement and testing
• P. Jukkala: FEM and BEM development
• P. Kangaslahti: 70 GHz development
• V. H. Kilpiä: Test set-up development
• M. Laaninen: RCA Testing and calibration
• Peter Meinhold: Design support
• Torsti Poutanen: Test analysis
• Michael Seiffert: Design support
• P. Sjoman: FEM and BEM development

30 and 44 GHz System Development

• Richard Davis: FEM Program Manager
• Althea Wilkinson: FEM Project Manager
• Enrique Martinez-Gonzalez: BEM Program Manager
• Eduardo Artal: BEM Project Manager
• Beatriz Aja: BEM development
• Teodoro Bernardino: BEM development
• E. Blackhurst: FEM manufacturing
• Francesco Cuttaia: FEM testing
• Ocleto D’Arcangelo: FEM Testing
• L. De La Fuente: BEM development
• Todd Gaier: RCA design and testing
• Roger Hoyland: RCA design and testing
• Danielle Kettle: FEM development
• D. Lawson: FEM development
• A. Mediavilla: BEM development
• Peter Meinhold: RCA design and testing
• J. P. Pascual: BEM development
• Marian Pospieszalski: LNA testing
• M. J. Salmon: BEM development
• Michael Seiffert: RCA design and testing
• Neal Roddis: FEM development
• Frank Winder: FEM Development and Integration Engineer

4K Reference Loads

• Luca Valenziano: coordinator
• Francesco Cuttaia: 4KL design coordination
• Matteo Biggi: Industrial support (Pasquali Microwave Systems)
• Alberto Brighenti: 4KL development
• Francesco Cavaliere: 4KL prototype
• Adriano De Rosa: 4KL development
• Roberto Lapini: Industrial support (Pasquali Microwave Systems)
• Steve Levin: 4KL early design
• Sergio Mariotti: 4KL development
• Gianluca Morgante: 4KL development
• Giordano Orsi: 4KL development
• Enzo Panagin: Industrial support (Pasquali Microwave Systems)
• Luca Terenzi: 4KL development
• Maurizio Tomasi: 4KL early thermal model

Passive Components

• Fabrizio Villa: Coordinator; feed horn design and passive component testing
• Ocleto D'Arcangelo: testing
• Roberto Ferretti: waveguide thermal design
• Lorenzo Figini: Testing
• Saul Garavaglia: Testing
• Pietro Guzzi: Waveguide design
• Renzo Nesti: feed and OMT design
• Luca Pagan: mechanical design
• Enrico Pagana: OMT design
• Massimiliano Pecora: Testing
• Maura Sandri: Beam analysis
• Alessandro Simonetto: Test coordination
• Carlo Sozzi: Test coordination

Optics and Telescope design

• Maura Sandri: Coordinator
• Fabrizio Villa: deputy coordinator
• Marco Bersanelli: LFI-HFI interfaces
• Nazzareno Mandolesi: Optics early design
• Renzo Nesti: Design support
• Francesca Perrotta: Optics analysis
• Paola Platania: Beam modeling

Radiometer Electronics Box Assembly (REBA)

• Rafael Rebolo: Coordination
• Josè Herreros: Project Manager
• Francisca Gomez: Onboard software developer
• Sergi R. Hildebrandt: REBA software test
• J. A. Rubiño-Martin: REBA development

Data Acquisition Electronics (DAE)

• Roberto Silvestri: DAE Design
• Emiliano Altina: DAE development and testing
• G. Baldan: DAE development and testing
• Paolo Bastia: DAE design
• Luca Boschini: DAE development and testing
• Francesco Colombo: DAE development and testing
• F. Ferrari: DAE testing
• Cristian Franceschet: DAE testing

RCA Sky Load and Planck Sky Load

• Francesco Cuttaia: Coordinator
• Luca Valenziano: Calobrators development
• Matteo Biggi (Pasquali Microwave Systems)
• Adriano De Rosa: Calobrators development
• Roberto Lapini (Pasquali Microwave Systems)
• Marco Lapolla: Calobrators development
• Gianluca Morgante: Calibrators thermal analysis
• Luca Pagan: Mechanical design
• Enzo Panagin (Pasquali Microwave Systems)
• Massimiliano Pecora (Thales Alenia Space Milano)
• Luca Terenzi: Calibrators development

Electrical Ground Support Equipment (EGSE)

• Paolo Chiroli, Thales Alenia Space Milano
• Per Lijle, Noregian funding of EGSE responsible
• Ståle Sneen, KPST, EGSE and test language development Manager
• Enrico Franceschi, EGSE Development

Thermal modeling

• Luca Terenzi: Coordinator
• Aniello Mennella: Definition of radiometer susceptibility to temperature fluctuations
• Maurizio Tomasi: Development of LFI thermal model, propagation of temperature fluctuations
• Roberto Ferretti: Early development of LFI thermal model (industry support)
• Francesco Colombo: Maintenance of LFI thermal model (industry support)

Sorption Cooler

• Gianluca Morgante: coordinator
• David Pearson
• Pradeep Bhandari
• James Borders
• Robert Bowman
• Ulf Israelsson
• Charles Lawrence
• Frederick Melot
• Jospeh Mora
• Alfred Nash
• Chris Paine
• Gary Parks
• Mauro Prina
• Daniel Santos
• Patrick Stassi
• Michael Schmelzel
• Luca Terenzi
• Cristophe Vescovi
• Lawrence Wade: Cooler design
• Philip Wilson
• Burt Zhang

Integration, Testing and Calibration

Instrument integration and testing (Thales-I, Milan)

• Aniello Mennella: Coordinator of Instrument-level scientific calibration
• Fabrizio Villa: Coordinator of RCA scientific calibration
• Paola Battaglia: Radiometer test operation
• Marco Bersanelli: Coordination
• Benedetta Cappellini: Test analysis
• Francesco Cuttaia: Test operation and analysis
• Ocleto D'Arcangelo: Test operation
• Cristian Franceschet: Test operation
• Enrico Franceschi: software developer
• Marco Lapolla: Instrument integration, cryogenic chamber
• Rodrigo Leonardi: Test analysis
• Paolo Leutenegger: Instrument integration
• Stuart Lowe: Test analysis
• Marco Malaspina: software developer
• Peter Meinhold: Test operation and analysis
• Luis Mendes: Test analysis (ESA support)
• Maurizio Miccolis: Instrument integration
• Leticia Perez Cuevas: ESA support
• Luca Terenzi: Thermal testing
• Maurizio Tomasi: software designer
• Luca Stringhetti: Management support
• Andrea Zonca: Test operation and analysis

System Integration and testing (Thales-F, Cannes)

• Luca Stringhetti: Coordination
• Francesco Cuttaia: test conduction and analysis
• Enrico Franceschi: I-EGSE support
• Anna Gregorio: test conduction and analysis
• Paolo Leutenegger: LFI-HFI integration
• Aniello Mennella: test conduction and analysis
• Luca Terenzi: test conduction and analysis
• Maurizio Tomasi: test conduction and analysis
• Paola Battaglia: test conduction and analysis
• Maurizio Miccolis: test conduction and analysis
• Leticia Perez Cuevas: ESA support

System Level Cryogenic Test and Calibration (CSL, Liege)

• Anna Gregorio: Test Campaign Coordination
• Aniello Mennella: Calibration supervision
• Francesco Cuttaia: Radiometer tuning coordinator
• Gianluca Morgante: SCS Coordination
• Paola Battaglia: Test operation
• Marco Bersanelli: Coordination support
• Chris Butler: Management
• Ocleto D'Arcangelo: Test operation
• Richard Davis: Radiometer tuning
• Cristian Franceschet: Test conduction
• Enrico Franceschi: I-EGSE support
• Rodrigo Leonardi: Test analysis
• Stuart Lowe: Test analysis
• Davide Maino: Test analysis
• Michele Maris: Test analysis
• Reno Mandolesi: Coordination
• Peter Meinhold: Test conduction and analysis
• Luis Mendes: Test analysis
• Dave Pearson: SCS testing
• Luca Terenzi: Test conduction and analysis
• Maurizio Tomasi: Test conduction and analysis
• Fabrizio Villa: Phase switch tuning
• Phil Wilson: SCS testing
• Andrea Zonca: Test conduction and analysis
• Paolo Leutenegger: industrial support
• Maurizio Miccolis: REBA support
• Leticia Perez Cuevas: ESA support
• Luca Stringhetti: Test operations
• Luca Valenziano: Logistics

Launch Campaign

• Reginald Christopher Butler: Coordinator
• Anna Gregorio: test conduction and analysis
• Francesco Cuttaia: test conduction and analysis
• Enrico Franceschi: I-EGSE support
• Aniello Mennella: test conduction and analysis
• Gianluca Morgante: sorption cooler test conduction and analysis
• Patrick Stassi: sorption cooler test conduction and analysis