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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.IM2018★ 20 cited

Gaia Data Release 2. Short-timescale variability processing and analysis

M. Roelens, L. Eyer, N. Mowlavi +13

The Gaia DR2 sample of short-timescale variable candidates results from the investigation of the first 22 months of Gaia photometry for a subsample of sources at the Gaia faint end…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 211 cited

Gaia Data Release 2: Properties and validation of the radial velocities

D. Katz, P. Sartoretti, M. Cropper +51

For Gaia DR2 (GDR2), 280 million spectra, collected by the RVS instrument on-board Gaia, were processed and median radial velocities were derived for 9.8 million sources brighter t…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 756 cited

Gaia Data Release 2: Photometric content and validation

D. W. Evans, M. Riello, F. De Angeli +9

Aims. We describe the photometric content of the second data release of the Gaia project (Gaia DR2) and its validation along with the quality of the data. Methods. The validation w…