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The Athena X-ray Integral Field Unit: a consolidated design for the system requirement review of the preliminary definition phase
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Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Física, Ingeniería de Sistemas y Teoría de la Señal Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Universitario de Física Aplicada a las Ciencias y las Tecnologías Barret, Didier Albouys, Vincent den Herder, Jan-Willem Piro, Luigi Cappi, Massimo Huovelin, Juhani Kelley, Richard Mas-Hesse, J. Miguel Paltani, Stéphane Rauw, Gregor Rozanska, Agata Bernard, Vivian Berrocal, Alicia Audard, Marc Blin, Sylvie Bonino, Donata Frericks, Martin Bonnet, François Bonny, Patrick Boorman, Peter Ptak, Andy Chaoul, Laurence Boreux, Charles Bounab, Ayoub Boutelier, Martin Boyce, Kevin Brienza, Daniele Bandler, Simon Bruijn, Marcel Gabici, Stefano Bulgarelli, Andrea Calarco, Simona Raulin, Desi Gloaguen, Emilie Callanan, Paul Prada Campello, Alberto Camus, Thierry Canourgues, Florent Capobianco, Vito Cardiel, Nicolas Castellani, Florent Barbera, Marco Gant, Florent Simionescu, Aurora Cheatom, Oscar Doumayrou, Eric Chervenak, James Chiarello, Fabio Clerc, Laurent Clerc, Nicolas Cobo, Beatriz Coeur-Joly, Odile Coleiro, Alexis Colonges, Stéphane Torrejon, Jose M. Corcione, Leonardo Gao, Jian-Rong Puccetti, Simonetta Barcons, Xavier Coriat, Mickael Coynel, Alexandre Cuttaia, Francesco D’Ai, Antonino D’anca, Fabio Dadina, Mauro Acero, Fabio Daniel, Christophe Dauner, Lea DeNigris, Natalie Puccio, Elena Gastaldello, Fabio Dercksen, Johannes Bozzo, Enrico DiPirro, Michael Genolet, Ludovic Durkin, Malcom van Leeuwen, Bert-Joost Charles, Ivan Ghizzardi, Simona Alcacera Gil, M. Angeles Giovannini, Elisa Ramon, Pascale Godet, Olivier Gomez-Elvira, Javier Gonzalez, Raoul Gonzalez, Manuel Gottardi, Luciano Branduardi-Raymont, Graziella Granat, Dolorès Fioretti, Valentina Gros, Michel Costantini, Elisa Guignard, Nicolas Reina, Manuel Hieltjes, Paul Hurtado, Adolfo Jesús Irwin, Kent Jacquey, Christian Ettori, Stefano Janiuk, Agnieszka Jaubert, Jean Jiménez, Maria Geoffray, Hervé Jolly, Antoine Jourdan, Thierry Rioland, Guillaume Dauser, Thomas Julien, Sabine Kedziora, Bartosz Finoguenov, Alexis Korb, Andrew Kreykenbohm, Ingo König, Ole Langer, Mathieu Laudet, Philippe Jacques, Lionel Laurent, Philippe Rodriguez, Louis Laurenza, Monica Lesrel, Jean Etcheverry, Christophe Decourchelle, Anne Ligori, Sebastiano Lorenz, Maximilian Luminari, Alfredo Maffei, Bruno Maisonnave, Océane Marelli, Lorenzo Kirsch, Christian Roig, Anton Massonet, Didier Petit, Pascal Maussang, Irwin Melchor, Alejandro Gonzalo Le Mer, Isabelle Duband, Lionel San Millan, Francisco Javier Millerioux, Jean-Pierre Mineo, Teresa Minervini, Gabriele Molin, Alexeï Gatti, Flavio Grosso, Nicolas Smith, Stephen Monestes, David Montinaro, Nicola Mot, Baptiste Murat, David Nagayoshi, Kenichiro Duval, Jean-Marc Nazé, Yaël Noguès, Loïc Pailot, Damien Kaastra, Jelle Rollet, Bertrand Panessa, Francesca Adams, Joseph Parodi, Luigi Roncarelli, Mauro Dubbeldam, Luc Hoogeveen, Ruud Roudil, Gilles Rudnicki, Tomasz Sanisidro, Julien Mazzotta, Pasquale Sciortino, Luisa Silva, Vitor Sordet, Michael Soto-Aguilar, Javier Spizzi, Pierre Goldwurm, Andrea Dupieux, Michel Surace, Christian Svoboda, Jiri Fernández Sánchez, Miguel Miller, Jon Taralli, Emanuele Terrasa, Guilhem Terrier, Régis Todaro, Michela Ubertini, Pietro Uslenghi, Michela Vaate, Jan Geralt Bijd de Dupourqué, Simon Vaccaro, Davide den Hartog, Roland Miniutti, Giovanni van der Hulst, Paul Varisco, Salvatore Varnière, Peggy Vibert, Laurent Vidriales, María Villa, Fabrizio Vodopivec, Boris Martin Volpe, Angela Durand, Jean Louis Vries, Cor de Nicastro, Fabrizio Wakeham, Nicholas Walmsley, Gavin Kiviranta, Mikko Jackson, Brian Wise, Michael Wit, Martin de Woźniak, Grzegorz Jonker, Peter Kilbourne, Caroline Eckert, Dominique Sciortino, Salvatore Korpela, Seppo Macculi, Claudio Mendez, Mariano Mitsuda, Kazuhisa van der Kuur, Jan Molendi, Silvano Pajot, François Pointecouteau, Etienne Porter, Frederick Pratt, Gabriel W. van Loon, Dennis Eiriz, Valvanera Prêle, Damien Ravera, Laurent Sato, Kosuke Schaye, Joop Shinozaki, Keisuke Ledot, Aurélien Skup, Konrad Soucek, Jan Thibert, Tanguy Yamaguchi, Hiroya Vink, Jacco Ercolani, Eric Webb, Natalie Beaumont, Sophie Piconcelli, Enrico Ceballos, Maria Teresa Cucchetti, Edoardo D’Andrea, Matteo Eckart, Megan Ferrando, Philippe Kammoun, Elias Lotti, Simone Mesnager, Jean-Michel Natalucci, Lorenzo Lyautey, Bertrand Pinto, Ciro Peille, Philippe Doriese, William de Plaa, Jelle Ardellier, Florence Argan, Andrea Bellouard, Elise Carron, Jérôme Cavazzuti, Elisabetta Fiorini, Mauro Khosropanah, Pourya Encinas Plaza, Jose Miguel Martin, Sylvain Parot, Yann Finkbeiner, Fred Perry, James Pinsard, Frederic Pradines, Alice Rigano, Manuela Roelfsema, Peter Schwander, Denis Torrioli, Guido Plaza, Borja Ullom, Joel Vera, Isabel Medinaceli Villegas, Eduardo Fiocchi, Mariateresa Sakai, Kazuhiro Zuchniak, Monika Brachet, Frank Lo Cicero, Ugo van Weers, Henk Wilms, Joern Fiore, Fabrizio Abdoelkariem, Shariefa Adam, Thomas Adami, Christophe Aicardi, Corinne Fossecave, Hervé Akamatsu, Hiroki Merino Alonso, Pablo Eleazar Amato, Roberta André, Jérôme Angelinelli, Matteo Poyatos, David Anon-Cancela, Manuel Yamasaki, Noriko Anvar, Shebli Atienza, Ricardo Attard, Anthony Franssen, Philippe Auricchio, Natalia Balado, Ana Bancel, Florian Barusso, Lorenzo Ferrari Prouvé, Thomas Bascuñan, Arturo Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Física, Ingeniería de Sistemas y Teoría de la Señal Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Universitario de Física Aplicada a las Ciencias y las Tecnologías Barret, Didier Albouys, Vincent den Herder, Jan-Willem Piro, Luigi Cappi, Massimo Huovelin, Juhani Kelley, Richard Mas-Hesse, J. Miguel Paltani, Stéphane Rauw, Gregor Rozanska, Agata Bernard, Vivian Berrocal, Alicia Audard, Marc Blin, Sylvie Bonino, Donata Frericks, Martin Bonnet, François Bonny, Patrick Boorman, Peter Ptak, Andy Chaoul, Laurence Boreux, Charles Bounab, Ayoub Boutelier, Martin Boyce, Kevin Brienza, Daniele Bandler, Simon Bruijn, Marcel Gabici, Stefano Bulgarelli, Andrea Calarco, Simona Raulin, Desi Gloaguen, Emilie Callanan, Paul Prada Campello, Alberto Camus, Thierry Canourgues, Florent Capobianco, Vito Cardiel, Nicolas Castellani, Florent Barbera, Marco Gant, Florent Simionescu, Aurora Cheatom, Oscar Doumayrou, Eric Chervenak, James Chiarello, Fabio Clerc, Laurent Clerc, Nicolas Cobo, Beatriz Coeur-Joly, Odile Coleiro, Alexis Colonges, Stéphane Torrejon, Jose M. Corcione, Leonardo Gao, Jian-Rong Puccetti, Simonetta Barcons, Xavier Coriat, Mickael Coynel, Alexandre Cuttaia, Francesco D’Ai, Antonino D’anca, Fabio Dadina, Mauro Acero, Fabio Daniel, Christophe Dauner, Lea DeNigris, Natalie Puccio, Elena Gastaldello, Fabio Dercksen, Johannes Bozzo, Enrico DiPirro, Michael Genolet, Ludovic Durkin, Malcom van Leeuwen, Bert-Joost Charles, Ivan Ghizzardi, Simona Alcacera Gil, M. Angeles Giovannini, Elisa Ramon, Pascale Godet, Olivier Gomez-Elvira, Javier Gonzalez, Raoul Gonzalez, Manuel Gottardi, Luciano Branduardi-Raymont, Graziella Granat, Dolorès Fioretti, Valentina Gros, Michel Costantini, Elisa Guignard, Nicolas Reina, Manuel Hieltjes, Paul Hurtado, Adolfo Jesús Irwin, Kent Jacquey, Christian Ettori, Stefano Janiuk, Agnieszka Jaubert, Jean Jiménez, Maria Geoffray, Hervé Jolly, Antoine Jourdan, Thierry Rioland, Guillaume Dauser, Thomas Julien, Sabine Kedziora, Bartosz Finoguenov, Alexis Korb, Andrew Kreykenbohm, Ingo König, Ole Langer, Mathieu Laudet, Philippe Jacques, Lionel Laurent, Philippe Rodriguez, Louis Laurenza, Monica Lesrel, Jean Etcheverry, Christophe Decourchelle, Anne Ligori, Sebastiano Lorenz, Maximilian Luminari, Alfredo Maffei, Bruno Maisonnave, Océane Marelli, Lorenzo Kirsch, Christian Roig, Anton Massonet, Didier Petit, Pascal Maussang, Irwin Melchor, Alejandro Gonzalo Le Mer, Isabelle Duband, Lionel San Millan, Francisco Javier Millerioux, Jean-Pierre Mineo, Teresa Minervini, Gabriele Molin, Alexeï Gatti, Flavio Grosso, Nicolas Smith, Stephen Monestes, David Montinaro, Nicola Mot, Baptiste Murat, David Nagayoshi, Kenichiro Duval, Jean-Marc Nazé, Yaël Noguès, Loïc Pailot, Damien Kaastra, Jelle Rollet, Bertrand Panessa, Francesca Adams, Joseph Parodi, Luigi Roncarelli, Mauro Dubbeldam, Luc Hoogeveen, Ruud Roudil, Gilles Rudnicki, Tomasz Sanisidro, Julien Mazzotta, Pasquale Sciortino, Luisa Silva, Vitor Sordet, Michael Soto-Aguilar, Javier Spizzi, Pierre Goldwurm, Andrea Dupieux, Michel Surace, Christian Svoboda, Jiri Fernández Sánchez, Miguel Miller, Jon Taralli, Emanuele Terrasa, Guilhem Terrier, Régis Todaro, Michela Ubertini, Pietro Uslenghi, Michela Vaate, Jan Geralt Bijd de Dupourqué, Simon Vaccaro, Davide den Hartog, Roland Miniutti, Giovanni van der Hulst, Paul Varisco, Salvatore Varnière, Peggy Vibert, Laurent Vidriales, María Villa, Fabrizio Vodopivec, Boris Martin Volpe, Angela Durand, Jean Louis Vries, Cor de Nicastro, Fabrizio Wakeham, Nicholas Walmsley, Gavin Kiviranta, Mikko Jackson, Brian Wise, Michael Wit, Martin de Woźniak, Grzegorz Jonker, Peter Kilbourne, Caroline Eckert, Dominique Sciortino, Salvatore Korpela, Seppo Macculi, Claudio Mendez, Mariano Mitsuda, Kazuhisa van der Kuur, Jan Molendi, Silvano Pajot, François Pointecouteau, Etienne Porter, Frederick Pratt, Gabriel W. van Loon, Dennis Eiriz, Valvanera Prêle, Damien Ravera, Laurent Sato, Kosuke Schaye, Joop Shinozaki, Keisuke Ledot, Aurélien Skup, Konrad Soucek, Jan Thibert, Tanguy Yamaguchi, Hiroya Vink, Jacco Ercolani, Eric Webb, Natalie Beaumont, Sophie Piconcelli, Enrico Ceballos, Maria Teresa Cucchetti, Edoardo D’Andrea, Matteo Eckart, Megan Ferrando, Philippe Kammoun, Elias Lotti, Simone Mesnager, Jean-Michel Natalucci, Lorenzo Lyautey, Bertrand Pinto, Ciro Peille, Philippe Doriese, William de Plaa, Jelle Ardellier, Florence Argan, Andrea Bellouard, Elise Carron, Jérôme Cavazzuti, Elisabetta Fiorini, Mauro Khosropanah, Pourya Encinas Plaza, Jose Miguel Martin, Sylvain Parot, Yann Finkbeiner, Fred Perry, James Pinsard, Frederic Pradines, Alice Rigano, Manuela Roelfsema, Peter Schwander, Denis Torrioli, Guido Plaza, Borja Ullom, Joel Vera, Isabel Medinaceli Villegas, Eduardo Fiocchi, Mariateresa Sakai, Kazuhiro Zuchniak, Monika Brachet, Frank Lo Cicero, Ugo van Weers, Henk Wilms, Joern Fiore, Fabrizio Abdoelkariem, Shariefa Adam, Thomas Adami, Christophe Aicardi, Corinne Fossecave, Hervé Akamatsu, Hiroki Merino Alonso, Pablo Eleazar Amato, Roberta André, Jérôme Angelinelli, Matteo Poyatos, David Anon-Cancela, Manuel Yamasaki, Noriko Anvar, Shebli Atienza, Ricardo Attard, Anthony Franssen, Philippe Auricchio, Natalia Balado, Ana Bancel, Florian Barusso, Lorenzo Ferrari Prouvé, Thomas Bascuñan, Arturo
Publication Year :
2023
Abstract
The Athena X-ray Integral Unit (X-IFU) is the high resolution X-ray spectrometer studied since 2015 for flying in the mid-30s on the Athena space X-ray Observatory. Athena is a versatile observatory designed to address the Hot and Energetic Universe science theme, as selected in November 2013 by the Survey Science Committee. Based on a large format array of Transition Edge Sensors (TES), X-IFU aims to provide spatially resolved X-ray spectroscopy, with a spectral resolution of 2.5 eV (up to 7 keV) over a hexagonal field of view of 5 arc minutes (equivalent diameter). The X-IFU entered its System Requirement Review (SRR) in June 2022, at about the same time when ESA called for an overall X-IFU redesign (including the X-IFU cryostat and the cooling chain), due to an unanticipated cost overrun of Athena. In this paper, after illustrating the breakthrough capabilities of the X-IFU, we describe the instrument as presented at its SRR (i.e. in the course of its preliminary definition phase, so-called B1), browsing through all the subsystems and associated requirements. We then show the instrument budgets, with a particular emphasis on the anticipated budgets of some of its key performance parameters, such as the instrument efficiency, spectral resolution, energy scale knowledge, count rate capability, non X-ray background and target of opportunity efficiency. Finally, we briefly discuss the ongoing key technology demonstration activities, the calibration and the activities foreseen in the X-IFU Instrument Science Center, touch on communication and outreach activities, the consortium organisation and the life cycle assessment of X-IFU aiming at minimising the environmental footprint, associated with the development of the instrument. Thanks to the studies conducted so far on X-IFU, it is expected that along the design-to-cost exercise requested by ESA, the X-IFU will maintain flagship capabilities in spatially resolved high resolution X-ray spectroscopy, enabling most of th
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OAIster
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Electronic Resource
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edsoai.on1376650020
Document Type :
Electronic Resource