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The Hot and Energetic Universe: A White Paper presenting the science theme motivating the Athena+ mission
Kirpal Nandra, Didier Barret, Xavier Barcons +237
This White Paper, submitted to the recent ESA call for science themes to define its future large missions, advocates the need for a transformational leap in our understanding of tw…
Athena (Advanced Telescope for High ENergy Astrophysics) Assessment Study Report for ESA Cosmic Vision 2015-2025
X. Barcons, D. Barret, A. Decourchelle +16
Athena is an X-ray observatory-class mission concept, developed from April to December 2011 as a result of the reformulation exercise for L-class mission proposals in the framework…
Background Simulations of the Wide Field Imager of the ATHENA X-Ray Observatory
Steffen Hauf, Markus Kuster, Maria Grazia Pia +5
The ATHENA X-ray Observatory-IXO is a planned multinational orbiting X-ray observatory with a focal length of 11.5m. ATHENA aims to perform pointed observations in an energy range…
International X-ray Observatory (IXO) Assessment Study Report for the ESA Cosmic Vision 2015-2025
X. Barcons, D. Barret, M. Bautz +17
The International X-Ray Observatory (IXO) will address fundamental questions in astrophysics, including "When did the first SMBH form? How does large scale structure evolve? What h…
Background study for the pn-CCD detector of CERN Axion Solar Telescope
S. Cebrián, A. Rodríguez, M. Kuster +12
The CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) experiment searches for axions from the Sun converted into photons with energies up to around 10 keV via the inverse Primakoff effect in the h…
The X-ray Telescope of the CAST Experiment
R. Kotthaus, H. Braeuninger, P. Friedrich +5
The CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) searches for solar axions employing a 9 Tesla superconducting dipole magnet equipped with 3 independent detection systems for X-rays from axio…