most citedGround calibration plan for the Athena/X-IFU microcalorimeter spectrometer

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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.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.IM2024★ 1 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.IM2024★ 1 cited

Life Cycle Assessment of the Athena X-ray Integral Field Unit

Didier Barret, Vincent Albouys, Jürgen Knödlseder +15

The X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU) is the high-resolution X-ray spectrometer to fly on board the Athena Space Observatory of the European Space Agency (ESA). It is being develop…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 2 cited

Thermalization of a SQUID chip at cryogenic temperature: Thermal conductance measurement for GE 7031 Varnish Glue, Apiezon N Grease and Rubber Cement between 20 and 200 mK

M. D'Andrea, G. Torrioli, C. Macculi +1

In the context of the ATHENA X-IFU Cryogenic AntiCoincidence Detector (CryoAC) development, we have studied the thermalization properties of a 2mm x 2mm SQUID chip. The chip is glu…