2 papers
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.HE2025
Disentangling the stellar atmosphere and the focused wind in different accretion states of Cygnus X-1
M. Brigitte, P. Hadrava, B. Kubátová +8
In high-mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs), the compact object accretes the strong stellar wind of an O-B supergiant companion star. X-ray flux variations alter the stellar wind's ionizat…