1. INAF-OAR National Institute for Astrophysics - Italy
The SAMM project
Roberto Piazzesi, Marco Stangalini, Roberto Speziali, L. Dal Sasso, and the SAMM Team
INAF-OAR National Institute for Astrophysics - Italy

2. Who we are
External companies:

3. Funding Ministry for Economic Development (MISE) call
Dal Sasso srl / INAF-OAR apply
Financing awarded by MISE in 2015
Project total: 1M€
Project begins January 2016
Timeframe: 3 years
First funds instalment May 2016

4. The Project Key aspects:
- Medium res. (0.5 arcsec/px)magnetograms at two heights in the solar atmosphere
-  Fast acquisition cadence (a few ms) to freeze atmosphere. Thanks to sCMOS technology
- Optical path designed to minimize optical components and induced polarization 
- Compact structure easily deployable
- Robotic telescope and observatory

5. MOF: how it works 
MOF technology is already tested (e.g. MOTH, VAMOS telescopes) and used in many fields beyond astronomy.
It has provided high impact science results (magneto-acoustic portals,  see for example Jefferies et al. 2006).

6. Timeline January 2016: identification of requirements
February 2016: start of opto-mech. design 
December 2016: start of realization and assembly
February 2017: lab tests and verifications
September 2017: first optical quality on-sky verification tests 
January 2018: first channel completed and on-sky tests

7. Electro- Optical Unit
First assembly
1st channel installed
Final

8. Issues Development site: Aprilia (Rome)
Seeing conditions… not ideal…
Waiting for some key components
Lower cost alternatives temporarily installed
In the meantime…
Maximise optical quality
Proof-of-concept magnetograms/ dopplergrams

9. On-sky optical quality verification
First light (AR12665)
worst conditions
no flat, no calibration, no tip- tilt

10. Fourier Lucky Imaging algorithm
SAMM
HMI/SDO
Fourier Lucky Imaging algorithm
Short exposure:
“freeze” seeing
reconstruction algorithms
limit effects of atmospheric turbulence

11. Solar minimum
...but recent optimizations resulted in an increase of optical quality.
Fourier Lucky Imaging concept tested and verified on-sky.

12. Future SAMM+: towards a four channel MOF robotic instrument.
Hungarian Solar Physics Foundation (hspf.eu < and SP2RC/Sheffield: support for SAMM (observatory and cameras). Plan to install SAMM at Gyula Observatory.
Univ. Sheffield/Katholieke Universiteit Leuven/Academy of Athens/University of Turku/ INAF / Univ. Tor Vergata: partnership for H2020 call. In particular, UToV based on their extensive experience gained with MOTH, will contribute the calibration pipeline and the realization of a database service. (Don’t miss their talk at 16:20!)

13. Thank you!