{"id":5006,"date":"2025-09-03T15:03:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T15:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.astri.inaf.it\/?p=5006"},"modified":"2025-09-16T08:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T08:02:07","slug":"a-heartfelt-remembrance-of-piero-salinari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astri.inaf.it\/index.php\/a-heartfelt-remembrance-of-piero-salinari\/2025\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"A heartfelt remembrance of Piero Salinari"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-mdzst6eq-a2b3f2dfe2289c3ce6759e9053a3a97f\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-mdzst6eq-a2b3f2dfe2289c3ce6759e9053a3a97f{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-mdzst6eq-a2b3f2dfe2289c3ce6759e9053a3a97f .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-mdzst6eq-a2b3f2dfe2289c3ce6759e9053a3a97f .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-mdzst6eq-a2b3f2dfe2289c3ce6759e9053a3a97f av-special-heading-h3  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-first '><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >A heartfelt remembrance of Piero Salinari by Giovanni Pareschi<\/h3><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div  class='flex_column av-3hzfdu-70834d8fbdeb5685d87f398bebc8459e av_one_half  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_heading  el_before_av_one_half  first flex_column_div  '     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-mdztd0y7-8005e72cc1c95e131e930162062fb30a '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Piero Salinari has suddenly left us. Piero was a \u201cgiant\u201d of ground-based Astronomy, one of the pioneers of Infrared Astronomy (we owe to him, together with Oberto Citterio, the IR telescope <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcetri.inaf.it\/irlab\/tirgo\/intro\/tofani.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TIRGO<\/a>) and undoubtedly one of the world\u2019s leading experts in adaptive optics. His was the adaptive system of LBT; he was also the Project Scientist of the ESO&#8217;s ELT at the time of its conception. We at ASTRI\/SST also owe him more than a little. Together with Prof. Ballio from Polimi, he supported us in developing the optomechanical system of ASTRI (they were responsibile for the commissioning of ASTRI-Horn, also providing invaluable guidelines for the evolution of ASTRI\u2019s and SST\u2019s current design). They took also part in various efforts to unify ASTRI with the French telescope to build the Small Size Telescopes of CTAO (SSTs), within a bilateral commission appointed by INAF and CNRS. He also gave a small but meaningful contribution to the <a href=\"https:\/\/pnrr.inaf.it\/progetto-ctaplus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PNRR project CTA+<\/a>, in which our Gamma-ray community is widely involved, helping us, when we started from proverbial \u201cscratch,\u201d to study the concept of the LST-South, which led to the current system, when in 2022 a small technical working group coordinated by Andrea Busatta was created, including, besides Salinari, a few researchers from Polimi.<\/p>\n<p>I remember him at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media.inaf.it\/2014\/09\/25\/letna-si-dota-del-telescopio-sst\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">inauguration of ASTRI-Horn a Serra La Nave<\/a>, during the CTA consortium meeting in September 2014. While others were at the reception, following him out of the corner of my eye I noticed he was walking around the telescope, scrutinizing every detail with his usual cigarette in his mouth. Shortly after, gathering members of the collaboration, he gave valuable advice on how to modify the design to make the telescope lighter \u2014advice we then adopted. He also pointed out a small error in the design of the lightning protection system which, once checked later, turned out to be absolutely correct.<\/p>\n<p>To Piero, who truly was a great person, goes a farewell of friendship and gratitude from the entire collaborations of ASTRI and SST.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<div  class='flex_column av-2zkpcy-6b402246f988d08fb9374e4c776ad531 av_one_half  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_one_half  el_before_av_image  flex_column_div  '     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-mdztc748-e97e0a743239226991d4e6225d9bbddf\">\n.avia-image-container.av-mdztc748-e97e0a743239226991d4e6225d9bbddf img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-mdztc748-e97e0a743239226991d4e6225d9bbddf .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-mdztc748-e97e0a743239226991d4e6225d9bbddf av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-4  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  av-has-copyright av-copyright-always'   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-5045 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-5045 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/www.astri.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/PieroSalinariAstriHornSettembre2014_ECascone-2.jpg\" alt='Piero Salinari all&#039;inaugurazione di ASTRI Horn settembre 2014' title='PieroSalinariAstriHornSettembre2014_ECascone'  height=\"634\" width=\"845\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><small class=\"avia-copyright\">Piero Salinari all&#039;inaugurazione di ASTRI-Horn nel 2014 - Credits: E. Cascone<\/small><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-mf412m4a-5562e268396bf5d2baf83d7ad8ef6847\">\n.avia-image-container.av-mf412m4a-5562e268396bf5d2baf83d7ad8ef6847 img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-mf412m4a-5562e268396bf5d2baf83d7ad8ef6847 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-mf412m4a-5562e268396bf5d2baf83d7ad8ef6847 av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-last  av-has-copyright av-copyright-always'   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-5051 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-5051 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/www.astri.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AstriHornSettembre2014_ECascone-1.jpg\" alt='Il telescopio ASTRI Horn Settembre 2014' title='AstriHornSettembre2014_ECascone'  height=\"684\" width=\"759\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><small class=\"avia-copyright\">Il telescopio ASTRI-Horn al sito di Serra la Nave sulle pendici dell&#039;Etna - Credits: E. Cascone<\/small><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giovanni Pareschi remembers Piero Salinari, a pioneer of Infrared Astronomy and adaptive optics. A key contributor to ASTRI, SST, and CTAO, he leaves behind a significant scientific and human legacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astri.inaf.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astri.inaf.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astri.inaf.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astri.inaf.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astri.inaf.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5006"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/www.astri.inaf.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5125,"href":"https:\/\/www.astri.inaf.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006\/revisions\/5125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astri.inaf.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astri.inaf.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astri.inaf.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astri.inaf.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}