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most citedThe Hot and Energetic Universe: A White Paper presenting the science theme motivating the Athena+ mission

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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.IM2025★ 106 cited

The NewAthena mission concept in the context of the next decade of X-ray astronomy

Mike Cruise, Matteo Guainazzi, James Aird +16

Large X-ray observatories such as Chandra and XMM-Newton have been delivering scientific breakthroughs in research fields as diverse as our Solar System, the astrophysics of stars,…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 10 cited

Synergies of THESEUS with the large facilities of the 2030s and guest observer opportunities

P. Rosati, S. Basa, A. W. Blain +37

The proposed THESEUS mission will vastly expand the capabilities to monitor the high-energy sky, and will exploit large samples of gamma-ray bursts to probe the early Universe back…

astro-ph.IM2021

Time Domain Astronomy with the THESEUS Satellite

S. Mereghetti, S. Balman, M. Caballero-Garcia +74

THESEUS is a medium size space mission of the European Space Agency, currently under evaluation for a possible launch in 2032. Its main objectives are to investigate the early Univ…

astro-ph.IM2020

CASTLE: performances and science cases

S. Lombardo, F. Prada, E. Hugot +23

We present here the Calar Alto Schmidt-Lemaitre Telescope (CASTLE) concept, a technology demonstrator for curved detectors, that will be installed at the Calar Alto Observatory (Sp…

astro-ph.IM2019

The Voyage of Metals in the Universe from Cosmological to Planetary Scales: the need for a Very High-Resolution, High Throughput Soft X-ray Spectrometer

F. Nicastro, J. Kaastra, C. Argiroffi +27

Metals form an essential part of the Universe at all scales. Without metals we would not exist, and the Cosmos would look completely different. Metals are primarily born through nu…