MISTRAL is a new facility instrument open to the scientific community that will help investigate the ’missing baryon’ problem, as well as many other scientific cases from extragalactic astrophysics to solar system science. The MIllimeter Sardinia radio Telescope Receiver based on Array of Lumped elements KIDs (MISTRAL) is a cryogenic W-band camera, operating at 90 GHz (frequency band 78-103 GHz), equipped with 415 LEKIDs which has been mounted at the Gregorian focus of the 64 m fully steerable radio telescope Sardinia Radio Telescope (SRT), in Italy, in May 2023. MISTRAL will take advantage of its 12 ′′ of angular resolution, a 4 ′ wide instantaneous field of view and its high sensitivity, which will make this camera one of the most competitive instrument to observe the mm-wave sky. MISTRAL is currently under technical commissioning and in this contribution we will report the current status and performances of the instrument as well as the operations done during the first year of technical commissioning.
Barbavara et al. (Fri,) studied this question.