Title: | The Athena X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU) |
Authors: | Barret, Didier Lam Trong, Thien den Herder, Jan-Willem PIRO, LUIGI Barcons, Xavier Huovelin, Juhani Kelley, Richard Mas-Hesse, J. Miguel Mitsuda, Kazuhisa Paltani, Stéphane Rauw, Gregor RoŻanska, Agata Wilms, Joern Barbera, Marco BOZZO , ENRICO Ceballos, Maria Teresa Charles, Ivan Decourchelle, Anne den Hartog, Roland Duval, Jean-Marc FIORE, Fabrizio Gatti, Flavio Goldwurm, Andrea Jackson, Brian Jonker, Peter Kilbourne, Caroline MACCULI, CLAUDIO Mendez, Mariano MOLENDI, SILVANO Orleanski, Piotr Pajot, François Pointecouteau, Etienne Porter, Frederick Pratt, Gabriel W. Prêle, Damien Ravera, Laurent Renotte, Etienne Schaye, Joop Shinozaki, Keisuke VALENZIANO, LUCA Vink, Jacco Webb, Natalie Yamasaki, Noriko Delcelier-Douchin, Françoise Le Du, Michel Mesnager, Jean-Michel Pradines, Alice Branduardi-Raymont, Graziella DADINA, MAURO Finoguenov, Alexis Fukazawa, Yasushi Janiuk, Agnieszka Miller, Jon Nazé, Yaël. NICASTRO, FABRIZIO SCIORTINO, Salvatore Torrejon, Jose Miguel Geoffray, Hervé Hernandez, Isabelle Luno, Laure Peille, Philippe André, Jérôme Daniel, Christophe Etcheverry, Christophe Gloaguen, Emilie Hassin, Jérémie Hervet, Gilles Maussang, Irwin Moueza, Jérôme Paillet, Alexis Vella, Bruno Campos Garrido, Gonzalo Damery, Jean-Charles Panem, Chantal Panh, Johan Bandler, Simon Biffi, Jean-Marc Boyce, Kevin Clénet, Antoine DiPirro, Michael Jamotton, Pierre LOTTI, Simone Schwander, Denis Smith, Stephen van Leeuwen, Bert-Joost van Weers, Henk Brand, Thorsten Cobo, Beatriz Dauser, Thomas de Plaa, Jelle Cucchetti, Edoardo |
Issue Date: | 2016 |
Volume: | Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray |
Editors: | den Herder, Jan-Willem A.; Takahashi, Tadayuki; Bautz, Marshall |
Series: | PROCEEDINGS OF SPIE |
Number: | 9905 |
First Page: | 99052F |
Abstract: | The X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU) on board the Advanced Telescope for High-ENergy Astrophysics (Athena) will provide spatially resolved high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy from 0.2 to 12 keV, with 5" pixels over a field of view of 5 arc minute equivalent diameter and a spectral resolution of 2.5 eV up to 7 keV. In this paper, we first review the core scientific objectives of Athena, driving the main performance parameters of the X-IFU, namely the spectral resolution, the field of view, the effective area, the count rate capabilities, the instrumental background. We also illustrate the breakthrough potential of the X-IFU for some observatory science goals. Then we brie y describe the X-IFU design as defined at the time of the mission consolidation review concluded in May 2016, and report on its predicted performance. Finally, we discuss some options to improve the instrument performance while not increasing its complexity and resource demands (e.g. count rate capability, spectral resolution). |
Conference Name: | Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray |
Conference Place: | Edinburgh, UK |
Conference Date: | 26 June - 1 July, 2016 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/30926 |
URL: | http://arxiv.org/abs/1608.08105v1 https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/9905/1/The-Athena-X-ray-Integral-Field-Unit-X-IFU/10.1117/12.2232432.full |
ISSN: | 0277-786X |
ISBN: | 9781510601895 9781510619135 |
DOI: | 10.1117/12.2232432 |
Bibcode ADS: | 2016SPIE.9905E..2FB |
Fulltext: | open |
Appears in Collections: | 3.01 Contributi in Atti di convegno
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