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astro-ph.IM2018
Energy scale calibration and drift correction of the X-IFU
Edoardo Cucchetti, Megan E. Eckart, Philippe Peille +6
The Athena X-Ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU) will provide spatially resolved high-resolution spectroscopy (2.5 eV FWHM up to 7 keV) over the 0.2 to 12 keV energy band. It will comp…
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Simulating Modulated X-ray calibration Sources for future X-ray missions, using GEANT4
C. P. de Vries, V. Fioretti, J. W. den Herder +2
The XIFU X-ray spectrometer instrument on the future Athena mission needs X-ray calibration sources to calibrate the gains of the individual detector pixels. For this purpose, elec…