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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.IM2024★ 1 cited
The first cut is the cheapest: optimizing Athena/X-IFU-like TES detectors resolution by filter truncation
M. Teresa Ceballos, Nicolás Cardiel, Beatriz Cobo +4
The X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU) instrument on the future ESA mission Athena X-ray Observatory is a cryogenic micro-calorimeter array of Transition Edge Sensor (TES) detectors…