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The X-IFU (X-ray Integral Field Unit) onboard the large ESA mission Athena (Advanced Telescope for High ENergy Astrophysics), planned to be launched in the mid 2030s, will be a cryogenic X-ray imaging spectrometer operating at 55 mK. It…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
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The Advanced Telescope for High-Energy Astrophysics (Athena) has been selected by ESA as its second large-class mission. The future European X-ray observatory will study the hot and energetic Universe with its launch foreseen in 2028.…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2016-10-04
Luciano Gottardi , Hiroki Akamatsu , Marcel P. Bruijn , Roland den Hartog , Jan-Willem den Herder , Brian Jackson , Mikko Kiviranta , Jan van der Kuur , Henk van Weers
The Athena mission entered a redefinition phase in July 2022, driven by the imperative to reduce the mission cost at completion for the European Space Agency below an acceptable target, while maintaining the flagship nature of its science…
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The X-IFU is the cryogenic spectrometer onboard the future ATHENA X-ray observatory. It is based on a large array of TES microcalorimeters, which works in combination with a Cryogenic AntiCoincidence detector (CryoAC). This is necessary to…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2022-07-01
M. D'Andrea , K. Ravensberg , A. Argan , D. Brienza , S. Lotti , C. Macculi , G. Minervini , L. Piro , G. Torrioli , F. Chiarello , L. Ferrari Barusso , M. Biasotti , G. Gallucci , F. Gatti , M. Rigano , H. Akamatsu , J. Dercksen , L. Gottardi , F. de Groote , R. den Hartog , J. -W. den Herder , R. Hoogeveen , B. Jackson , A. McCalden , S. Rosman , E. Taralli , D. Vaccaro , M. de Wit , J. Chervenak , S. Smith , N. Wakeham
The X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU) is the high resolution X-ray spectrometer of the ESA Athena X-ray observatory. Over a field of view of 5' equivalent diameter, it will deliver X-ray spectra from 0.2 to 12 keV with a spectral resolution…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
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Didier Barret , Thien Lam Trong , Jan-Willem den Herder , Luigi Piro , Massimo Cappi , Juhani Huovelin , Richard Kelley , J. Miguel Mas-Hesse , Kazuhisa Mitsuda , Stéphane Paltani , Gregor Rauw , Agata Rozanska , Joern Wilms , Simon Bandler , Marco Barbera , Xavier Barcons , Enrico Bozzo , Maria Teresa Ceballos , Ivan Charles , Elisa Costantini , Anne Decourchelle , Roland den Hartog , Lionel Duband , Jean-Marc Duval , Fabrizio Fiore , Flavio Gatti , Andrea Goldwurm , Brian Jackson , Peter Jonker , Caroline Kilbourne , Claudio Macculi , Mariano Mendez , Silvano Molendi , Piotr Orleanski , François Pajot , Etienne Pointecouteau , Frederick Porter , Gabriel W. Pratt , Damien Prêle , Laurent Ravera , Kosuke Sato , Joop Schaye , Keisuke Shinozaki , Tanguy Thibert , Luca Valenziano , Veronique Valette , Jacco Vink , Natalie Webb , Michael Wise , Noriko Yamasaki , Françoise Delcelier-Douchin , Jean-Michel Mesnager , Bernard Pontet , Alice Pradines , Graziella Branduardi-Raymont , Esra Bulbul , Mauro Dadina , Stefano Ettori , Alexis Finoguenov , Yasushi Fukazawa , Agnieszka Janiuk , Jelle Kaastra , Pasquale Mazzotta , Jon Miller , Giovanni Miniutti , Yaël Nazé , Fabrizio Nicastro , Salvatore Sciortino , Aurora Simionescu , Jose Miguel Torrejon , Benoît Frezouls , Hervé Geoffray , Philippe Peille , Corinne Aicardi , Jérôme André , Antoine Clénet , Christophe Daniel , Christophe Etcheverry , Emilie Gloaguen , Gilles Hervet , Antoine Jolly , Aurélien Ledot , Irwin Maussang , Alexis Paillet , Roseline Schmisser , Bruno Vella , Jean-Charles Damery , Kevin Boyce , Michael DiPirro , Simone Lotti , Denis Schwander , Stephen Smith , Bert-Joost van Leeuwen , Henk van Weers , Nicolas Clerc , Beatriz Cobo , Thomas Dauser , Jelle de Plaa , Christian Kirsch , Edoardo Cucchetti , Megan Eckart , Philippe Ferrando , Lorenzo Natalucci
The X-IFU is one of the two instruments of ATHENA, the next ESA large X-ray observatory. It is a cryogenic spectrometer based on an array of TES microcalorimeters. To reduce the particle background, the TES array works in combination with a…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
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Matteo D'Andrea , Claudio Macculi , Simone Lotti , Luigi Piro , Andrea Argan , Gabriele Minervini , Guido Torrioli , Fabio Chiarello , Lorenzo Ferrari Barusso , Flavio Gatti , Manuela Rigano
The Athena X-ray Integral Unit (X-IFU) is the high resolution X-ray spectrometer, studied since 2015 for flying in the mid-30s on the Athena space X-ray Observatory, a versatile observatory designed to address the Hot and Energetic Universe…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
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Didier Barret , Vincent Albouys , Jan-Willem den Herder , Luigi Piro , Massimo Cappi , Juhani Huovelin , Richard Kelley , J. Miguel Mas-Hesse , Stéphane Paltani , Gregor Rauw , Agata Rozanska , Jiri Svoboda , Joern Wilms , Noriko Yamasaki , Marc Audard , Simon Bandler , Marco Barbera , Xavier Barcons , Enrico Bozzo , Maria Teresa Ceballos , Ivan Charles , Elisa Costantini , Thomas Dauser , Anne Decourchelle , Lionel Duband , Jean-Marc Duval , Fabrizio Fiore , Flavio Gatti , Andrea Goldwurm , Roland den Hartog , Brian Jackson , Peter Jonker , Caroline Kilbourne , Seppo Korpela , Claudio Macculi , Mariano Mendez , Kazuhisa Mitsuda , Silvano Molendi , François Pajot , Etienne Pointecouteau , Frederick Porter , Gabriel W. Pratt , Damien Prêle , Laurent Ravera , Kosuke Sato , Joop Schaye , Keisuke Shinozaki , Konrad Skup , Jan Soucek , Tanguy Thibert , Jacco Vink , Natalie Webb , Laurence Chaoul , Desi Raulin , Aurora Simionescu , Jose Miguel Torrejon , Fabio Acero , Graziella Branduardi-Raymont , Stefano Ettori , Alexis Finoguenov , Nicolas Grosso , Jelle Kaastra , Pasquale Mazzotta , Jon Miller , Giovanni Miniutti , Fabrizio Nicastro , Salvatore Sciortino , Hiroya Yamaguchi , Sophie Beaumont , Edoardo Cucchetti , Matteo D'Andrea , Megan Eckart , Philippe Ferrando , Elias Kammoun , Simone Lotti , Jean-Michel Mesnager , Lorenzo Natalucci , Philippe Peille , Jelle de Plaa , Florence Ardellier , Andrea Argan , Elise Bellouard , Jérôme Carron , Elisabetta Cavazzuti , Mauro Fiorini , Pourya Khosropanah , Sylvain Martin , James Perry , Frederic Pinsard , Alice Pradines , Manuela Rigano , Peter Roelfsema , Denis Schwander , Guido Torrioli , Joel Ullom , Isabel Vera , Eduardo Medinaceli Villegas , Monika Zuchniak , Frank Brachet , Ugo Lo Cicero , William Doriese , Malcom Durkin , Valentina Fioretti , Hervé Geoffray , Lionel Jacques , Christian Kirsch , Stephen Smith , Joseph Adams , Emilie Gloaguen , Ruud Hoogeveen , Paul van der Hulst , Mikko Kiviranta , Jan van der Kuur , Aurélien Ledot , Bert-Joost van Leeuwen , Dennis van Loon , Bertrand Lyautey , Yann Parot , Kazuhiro Sakai , Henk van Weers , Shariefa Abdoelkariem , Thomas Adam , Christophe Adami , Corinne Aicardi , Hiroki Akamatsu , Pablo Eleazar Merino Alonso , Roberta Amato , Jérôme André , Matteo Angelinelli , Manuel Anon-Cancela , Shebli Anvar , Ricardo Atienza , Anthony Attard , Natalia Auricchio , Ana Balado , Florian Bancel , Lorenzo Ferrari Barusso , Vivian Bernard , Alicia Berrocal , Sylvie Blin , Donata Bonino , François Bonnet , Patrick Bonny , Peter Boorman , Charles Boreux , Ayoub Bounab , Martin Boutelier , Kevin Boyce , Daniele Brienza , Marcel Bruijn , Andrea Bulgarelli , Simona Calarco , Paul Callanan , Thierry Camus , Florent Canourgues , Vito Capobianco , Nicolas Cardiel , Florent Castellani , Oscar Cheatom , James Chervenak , Fabio Chiarello , Nicolas Clerc , Laurent Clerc , Beatriz Cobo , Odile Coeur-Joly , Alexis Coleiro , Stéphane Colonges , Leonardo Corcione , Mickael Coriat , Alexandre Coynel , Francesco Cuttaia , Antonino D'Ai , Fabio D'anca , Mauro Dadina , Christophe Daniel , Natalie DeNigris , Johannes Dercksen , Michael DiPirro , Eric Doumayrou , Luc Dubbeldam , Michel Dupieux , Simon Dupourqué , Jean Louis Durand , Dominique Eckert , Valvanera Eiriz , Eric Ercolani , Christophe Etcheverry , Fred Finkbeiner , Mariateresa Fiocchi , Hervé Fossecave , Philippe Franssen , Martin Frericks , Stefano Gabici , Florent Gant , Jian-Rong Gao , Fabio Gastaldello , Ludovic Genolet , Simona Ghizzardi , M Angeles Alcacera Gil , Elisa Giovannini , Olivier Godet , Javier Gomez-Elvira , Manuel Gonzalez , Raoul Gonzalez , Luciano Gottardi , Dolorès Granat , Michel Gros , Nicolas Guignard , Paul Hieltjes , Adolfo Jesus Hurtado , Kent Irwin , Christian Jacquey , Agnieszka Janiuk , Jean Jaubert , Maria Jiménez , Antoine Jolly , Thierry Jourdan , Sabine Julien , Bartosz Kedziora , Andrew Korb , Ingo Kreykenbohm , Ole König , Mathieu Langer , Philippe Laudet , Philippe Laurent , Monica Laurenza , Jean Lesrel , Sebastiano Ligori , Maximilian Lorenz , Alfredo Luminari , Bruno Maffei , Océane Maisonnave , Lorenzo Marelli , Didier Massonet , Irwin Maussang , Alejandro Gonzalo Melchor , Isabelle Le Mer , Lea Michalski , Jean-Pierre Millerioux , Teresa Mineo , Gabriele Minervini , Alexeï Molin , David Monestes , Nicola Montinaro , Baptiste Mot , David Murat , Kenichiro Nagayoshi , Yaël Nazé , Loïc Noguès , Damien Pailot , Francesca Panessa , Luigi Parodi , Pascal Petit , Enrico Piconcelli , Ciro Pinto , Jose Miguel Encinas Plaza , David Poyatos , Thomas Prouvé , Andy Ptak , Simonetta Puccetti , Elena Puccio , Pascale Ramon , Manuel Reina , Guillaume Rioland , Louis Rodriguez , Anton Roig , Bertrand Rollet , Mauro Roncarelli , Gilles Roudil , Tomasz Rudnicki , Julien Sanisidro , Luisa Sciortino , Vitor Silva , Michael Sordet , Javier Soto-Aguilar , Pierre Spizzi , Christian Surace , Miguel Fernández Sánchez , Emanuele Taralli , Guilhem Terrasa , Régis Terrier , Michela Todaro , Pietro Ubertini , Michela Uslenghi , Jan Geralt Bij de Vaate , Davide Vaccaro , Salvatore Varisco , Peggy Varnière , Laurent Vibert , María Vidriales , Fabrizio Villa , Boris Martin Vodopivec , Angela Volpe , Cor de Vries , Nicholas Wakeham , Gavin Walmsley , Michael Wise , Martin de Wit , Grzegorz Woźniak
The Athena+ mission concept is designed to implement the Hot and Energetic Universe science theme submitted to the European Space Agency in response to the call for White Papers for the definition of the L2 and L3 missions of its science…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2013-09-02
D. Barret , J. W. den Herder , L. Piro , L. Ravera , R. Den Hartog , C. Macculi , X. Barcons , M. Page , S. Paltani , G. Rauw , J. Wilms , M. Ceballos , L. Duband , L. Gottardi , S. Lotti , J. de Plaa , E. Pointecouteau , C. Schmid , H. Akamatsu , D. Bagliani , S. Bandler , M. Barbera , P. Bastia , M. Biasotti , M. Branco , A. Camon , C. Cara , B. Cobo , L. Colasanti , J. L. Costa-Kramer , L. Corcione , W. Doriese , J. M. Duval , L. Fabrega , F. Gatti , M. de Gerone , P. Guttridge , R. Kelley , C. Kilbourne , J. van der Kuur , T. Mineo , K. Mitsuda , L. Natalucci , T. Ohashi , P. Peille , E. Perinati , C. Pigot , G. Pizzigoni , C. Pobes , F. Porter , E. Renotte , J. L. Sauvageot , S. Sciortino , G. Torrioli , L. Valenziano , D. Willingale , C. de Vries , H. van Weers
The Cryogenic AntiCoincidence Detector (CryoAC) of ATHENA X-IFU is designed to reduce the particle background of the instrument and to enable the mission science goals. It is a 4 pixel silicon microcalorimeter sensed by an Ir/Au TES…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2019-12-16
Matteo D'Andrea , Claudio Macculi , Guido Torrioli , Andrea Argan , Daniele Brienza , Simone Lotti , Gabriele Minervini , Luigi Piro , Michele Biasotti , Lorenzo Ferrari Barusso , Flavio Gatti , Manuela Rigano , Angela Volpe , Elia Stefano Battistelli
The X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU) is an instrument of ESA's future NewAthena space observatory, with the goal to provide high-energy resolution ($<$ 4 eV at X-ray energies up to 7 keV) and high-spatial resolution (9") spectroscopic…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2025-02-07
Davide Vaccaro , Jan van der Kuur , Paul van der Hulst , Tobias Vos , Martin de Wit , Luciano Gottardi , Kevin Ravensberg , Emanuele Taralli , Joseph Adams , Simon Bandler , Douglas Bennet , James Chervenak , Bertrand Doriese , Malcolm Durkin , Johnathon Gard , Carl Reintsema , Kazuhiro Sakai , Steven Smith , Joel Ullom , Nicholas Wakeham , Jan-Willem den Herder , Brian jackson , Pourya Khosropanah , Jian-Rong Gao , Peter Roelfsema , Aurora Simionescu
The ATHENA X-IFU development program foresees to build and characterize an instrument Demonstration Model (DM), in order to probe the system critical technologies before the mission adoption. In this respect, we are now developing the DM of…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2018-07-24
Matteo D'Andrea , Claudio Macculi , Andrea Argan , Simone Lotti , Gabriele Minervini , Luigi Piro , Michele Biasotti , Dario Corsini , Flavio Gatti , Guido Torrioli , Angela Volpe
ATHENA is a large-class ESA mission selected for launch in 2031. It is designed to address the science theme "The Hot and Energetic Universe", performing X-ray observations (0.2-12 keV) at the L2 Sun-Earth Lagrangian point. The X-IFU is one…
ATHENA is a large X-ray observatory, planned to be launched by ESA in 2028 towards an L2 orbit. One of the two instruments of the payload is the X-IFU: a cryogenic spectrometer based on a large array of TES microcalorimeters, able to…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2017-05-22
Matteo D'Andrea , Simone Lotti , Claudio Macculi , Luigi Piro , Andrea Argan , Flavio Gatti
Athena is a space-based X-ray observatory intended for exploration of the hot and energetic universe. One of the science instruments on Athena will be the X-ray Integrated Field Unit (X-IFU), which is a cryogenic X-ray spectrometer, based…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2016-11-17
J. van der Kuur , L. G. Gottardi , H. Akamatsu , B. J. van Leeuwen , R. den Hartog , D. Haas , M. Kiviranta , B. J. Jackson
The Cryogenic AntiCoincidence Detector (CryoAC) is a key element of the X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU) on board the future ATHENA X-ray observatory. It is a TES-based detector designed to reduce the particle background of the instrument,…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2025-01-29
Matteo D'Andrea , Claudio Macculi , Simone Lotti , Luigi Piro , Andrea Argan , Gabriele Minervini , Guido Torrioli , Fabio Chiarello , Lorenzo Ferrari Barusso , Edvige Celasco , Flavio Gatti , Daniele Grosso , Manuela Rigano , Daniele Brienza , Elisabetta Cavazzuti , Angela Volpe
Our team is developing the Cryogenic Anticoincidence Detector (CryoAC) of the ATHENA X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU). It is a 4-pixels TES-based detector, which will be placed less than 1 mm below the main TES array detector. We are now…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2018-07-12
Matteo D'Andrea , Claudio Macculi , Andrea Argan , Simone Lotti , Gabriele Minervini , Luigi Piro , Michele Biasotti , Valentina Ceriale , Giovanni Gallucci , Flavio Gatti , Guido Torrioli , Angela Volpe
SRON (Netherlands Institute for Space Research) is developing the Focal Plane Assembly (FPA) for Athena X-IFU, whose Demonstration Model (DM) will use for the first time a time domain multiplexing (TDM)-based readout system for the on-board…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2024-03-06
D. Vaccaro , M. de Wit , J. van der Kuur , L. Gottardi , K. Ravensberg , E. Taralli , J. Adams , S. R. Bandler , J. A. Chervenak , W. B. Doriese , M. Durkin , C. Reintsema , K. Sakai , S. J. Smith , N. A. Wakeham , B. Jackson , P. Khosropanah , J. R. Gao , J. W. A. den Herder , P. Roelfsema
The X-ray Integral Field Unit is the X-ray imaging spectrometer on-board one of ESA's next large missions, Athena. Athena is set to investigate the theme of the Hot and Energetic Universe, with a launch planned in the late-2030s. Based on a…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2025-07-03
Alexeï Molin , François Pajot , Marc Audard , Marco Barbera , Sophie Beaumont , Edoardo Cucchetti , Matteo D'Andrea , Christophe Daniel , Roland den Hartog , Megan E. Eckart , Philippe Ferrando , Luciano Gottardi , Maurice Leutenegger , Simone Lotti , Lorenzo Natalucci , Philippe Peille , Jelle de Plaa , Etienne Pointecouteau , Scott Porter , Kosuke Sato , Joern Wilms , Vincent Albouys , Didier Barret , Massimo Cappi , Jan-Willem den Herder , Luigi Piro , Aurora Simionescu
Development of frequency domain multiplexing for the X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU) on the Athena
We are developing the frequency domain multiplexing (FDM) read-out of transition-edge sensor (TES) microcalorimeters for the X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU) instrument on board of the future European X-Ray observatory Athena. The X-IFU…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2016-11-23
Hiroki Akamatsu , Luciano Gottardi , Jan van der Kuur , Cor P. de Vries , Kevin Ravensberg , Joseph S. Adams , Simon R. Bandler , Marcel P. Bruijn , James A. Chervenak , Caroline A Kilbourne , Mikko Kiviranta , A. J. van den Linden , Brian D. Jackson , Stephen J. Smith
The X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU) on board the Advanced Telescope for High-ENergy Astrophysics (Athena) will provide spatially resolved high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy from 0.2 to 12 keV, with 5 arc second pixels over a field of view…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2016-08-30
Didier Barret , Thien Lam Trong , Jan-Willem den Herder , Luigi Piro , Xavier Barcons , Juhani Huovelin , Richard Kelley , J. Miguel Mas-Hesse , Kazuhisa Mitsuda , Stéphane Paltani , Gregor Rauw , Agata Rożanska , Joern Wilms , Marco Barbera , Enrico Bozzo , Maria Teresa Ceballos , Ivan Charles , Anne Decourchelle , Roland den Hartog , Jean-Marc Duval , Fabrizio Fiore , Flavio Gatti , Andrea Goldwurm , Brian Jackson , Peter Jonker , Caroline Kilbourne , Claudio Macculi , Mariano Mendez , Silvano Molendi , Piotr Orleanski , François Pajot , Etienne Pointecouteau , Frederick Porter , Gabriel W. Pratt , Damien Prêle , Laurent Ravera , Etienne Renotte , Joop Schaye , Keisuke Shinozaki , Luca Valenziano , Jacco Vink , Natalie Webb , Noriko Yamasaki , Françoise Delcelier-Douchin , Michel Le Du , Jean-Michel Mesnager , Alice Pradines , Graziella Branduardi-Raymont , Mauro Dadina , Alexis Finoguenov , Yasushi Fukazawa , Agnieszka Janiuk , Jon Miller , Yaël Nazé , Fabrizio Nicastro , Salvatore Sciortino , Jose Miguel Torrejon , Hervé Geoffray , Isabelle Hernandez , Laure Luno , Philippe Peille , Jérôme André , Christophe Daniel , Christophe Etcheverry , Emilie Gloaguen , Jérémie Hassin , Gilles Hervet , Irwin Maussang , Jérôme Moueza , Alexis Paillet , Bruno Vella , Gonzalo Campos Garrido , Jean-Charles Damery , Chantal Panem , Johan Panh , Simon Bandler , Jean-Marc Biffi , Kevin Boyce , Antoine Clénet , Michael DiPirro , Pierre Jamotton , Simone Lotti , Denis Schwander , Stephen Smith , Bert-Joost van Leeuwen , Henk van Weers , Thorsten Brand , Beatriz Cobo , Thomas Dauser , Jelle de Plaa , Edoardo Cucchetti