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astro-ph.IM2025★ 4 cited

Ground calibration plan for the Athena/X-IFU microcalorimeter spectrometer

Alexeï Molin, François Pajot, Marc Audard +24

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 U…

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★ 4 cited

A test platform for the detection and readout chain for the Athena X-IFU

Gabriele Betancourt-Martinez, François Pajot, Sophie Beaumont +26

We present a test platform for the Athena X-IFU detection chain, which will serve as the first demonstration of the representative end-to-end detection and readout chain for the X-…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 8 cited

The Athena X-ray Integral Field Unit

Didier Barret, Thien Lam Trong, Jan-Willem den Herder +100

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…

astro-ph.IM2018

Energy scale calibration and drift correction of the X-IFU

Edoardo Cucchetti, Megan E. Eckart, Philippe Peille +6

The Athena X-Ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU) will provide spatially resolved high-resolution spectroscopy (2.5 eV FWHM up to 7 keV) over the 0.2 to 12 keV energy band. It will comp…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 1 cited

Testing the X-IFU calibration requirements: an example for quantum efficiency and energy resolution

Edoardo Cucchetti, François Pajot, Etienne Pointecouteau +9

With its array of 3840 Transition Edge Sensors (TESs) operated at 90 mK, the X-Ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU) on board the ESA L2 mission Athena will provide spatially resolved hi…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 3 cited

Reproducibility and monitoring of the instrumental particle background for the X-Ray Integral Field Unit

Edoardo Cucchetti, Etienne Pointecouteau, Didier Barret +7

The X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU) is the cryogenic imaging spectrometer on board the future X-ray observatory \textsl{Athena}. With a hexagonal array of 3840 AC-biased Transiti…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 123 cited

The Athena X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU)

Didier Barret, Thien Lam Trong, Jan-Willem den Herder +88

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…