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most citedQUBIC VIII: Optical design and performance

17 citations · 27 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

Toward mapping turbulence in the intracluster medium IV. Using NewAthena/X-IFU and simulation based inference to constrain turbulence

Alexeï Molin, Simon Dupourqué, Nicolas Clerc +3

Context. The NewAthena mission planned for launch in the late 2030s will carry X-IFU, an integral field unit spectrometer that will obtain unique insight into the X-ray hot univers…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 2 cited

Toward mapping turbulence in the intracluster medium III. Constraints on the turbulent power spectrum with Athena/X-IFU

Sophie Beaumont, Alexeï Molin, Nicolas Clerc +5

Context. Future X-ray observatories with high spectral resolution and imaging capabilities will enable measurements and mappings of emission line shifts in the intracluster medium…

astro-ph.CO2022

X-IFU/Athena view of the most distant galaxy clusters in the Universe

Florent Castellani, N. Clerc, Etienne Pointecouteau +2

The X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU) on-board the second large ESA mission ''Athena'' will be a high spatial (5'') and spectral (2.5eV) resolution X-ray imaging spectrometer, oper…

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.IM2020★ 17 cited

QUBIC VIII: Optical design and performance

C. O'Sullivan, M. De Petris, G. Amico +126

The Q and U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology (QUBIC) is a ground-based experiment that aims to detect B-mode polarisation anisotropies in the CMB at angular scales around th…

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…