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Review of the particle background of the Athena X-IFU instrument
Simone Lotti, Matteo D'Andrea, Silvano Molendi +6
X-ray observations are limited by the background, due to intrinsic faintness or diffuse nature of the sources. The future Athena X-ray observatory has among its goals the character…
Soft proton scattering at grazing incidence from X-ray mirrors: analysis of experimental data in the framework of the non-elastic approximation
R. Amato, T. Mineo, A. D'Aì +9
Astronomical X-ray observatories with grazing incidence optics face the problem of pseudo-focusing of low energy protons from the mirrors towards the focal plane. Those protons con…
Thermal simulations of temperature excursions on the Athena X-IFU detector wafer from impacts by cosmic rays
Samantha Lynn Stever, Philippe Peille, Marcel Bruijn +5
We present the design and implementation of a thermal model, developed in COMSOL, aiming to probe the wafer-scale thermal response arising from realistic rates and energies of cosm…
The Demonstration Model of the ATHENA X-IFU Cryogenic AntiCoincidence Detector
Matteo D'Andrea, Claudio Macculi, Guido Torrioli +11
The Cryogenic AntiCoincidence Detector (CryoAC) of ATHENA X-IFU is designed to reduce the particle background of the instrument and to enable the mission science goals. It is a 4 p…
Magnetic shielding of soft protons in future X-ray telescopes: the case of the ATHENA Wide Field Imager
Valentina Fioretti, Andrea Bulgarelli, Silvano Molendi +10
Both the interplanetary space and the Earth magnetosphere are populated by low energy ( keV) protons that are potentially able to scatter on the reflecting surface of Wolt…
The Cryogenic AntiCoincidence detector for ATHENA X-IFU: improvement of the test setup towards the Demonstration Model
Matteo D'Andrea, Claudio Macculi, Andrea Argan +8
The ATHENA X-IFU development program foresees to build and characterize an instrument Demonstration Model (DM), in order to probe the system critical technologies before the missio…