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most citedThe Demonstration Model of the ATHENA X-IFU Cryogenic AntiCoincidence Detector

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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

The TES-based Cryogenic AntiCoincidence Detector of ATHENA X-IFU: Validation of the thermal end-to-end simulator towards the updated Demonstration Model (DM 1.1)

Matteo D'Andrea, Claudio Macculi, Simone Lotti +13

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 d…

astro-ph.IM20241 cited

The end-to-end simulator of the ATHENA X-IFU Cryogenic AntiCoincidence detector (CryoAC)

Matteo D'Andrea, Claudio Macculi, Simone Lotti +8

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 pa…

astro-ph.IM20249 cited

The TES-based Cryogenic AntiCoincidence Detector (CryoAC) of ATHENA X-IFU: a large area silicon microcalorimeter for background particles detection

M. D'Andrea, C. Macculi, S. Lotti +14

We are developing the Cryogenic AntiCoincidence detector (CryoAC) of the ATHENA X-IFU spectrometer. It is a TES-based particle detector aimed to reduce the background of the instru…

astro-ph.IM201916 cited

The Demonstration Model of the ATHENA X-IFU Cryogenic AntiCoincidence Detector

Matteo D'Andrea, Claudio Macculi, Guido Torrioli +11

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 p…