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most citedReview of the particle background of the Athena X-IFU instrument

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astro-ph.IM2025

The X-ray Integral Field Unit at the end of the Athena reformulation phase

Philippe Peille, Didier Barret, Edoardo Cucchetti +279

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 ta…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 2 cited

The Athena X-ray Integral Field Unit: a consolidated design for the system requirement review of the preliminary definition phase

Didier Barret, Vincent Albouys, Jan-Willem den Herder +296

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 ob…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 22 cited

Review of the particle background of the Athena X-IFU instrument

Simone Lotti, Matteo D'Andrea, Silvano Molendi +6

X-ray observations are limited by the background, due to intrinsic faintness or diffuse nature of the sources. The future Athena X-ray observatory has among its goals the character…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 19 cited

The particle background of the X-IFU instrument

Simone Lotti, Teresa Mineo, Christian Jacquey +4

In this paper we are going to review the latest estimates for the particle background expected on the X-IFU instrument onboard of the ATHENA mission. The particle background is ind…

astro-ph.IM2017

Updates on the background estimates for the X-IFU instrument onboard of the ATHENA mission

Simone Lotti, Claudio Macculi, Matteo D'Andrea +10

ATHENA, with a launch foreseen in 2028 towards the L2 orbit, addresses the science theme "The Hot and Energetic Universe", coupling a high-performance X-ray Telescope with two comp…