Title: | The Athena X-ray Integral Field Unit: a consolidated design for the system requirement review of the preliminary definition phase |
Authors: | Barret, Didier Albouys, Vincent Herder, Jan-Willem den PIRO, LUIGI CAPPI, MASSIMO Huovelin, Juhani Kelley, Richard Mas-Hesse, J. Miguel Paltani, Stéphane Rauw, Gregor Rozanska, Agata Doriese, William Durkin, Malcom FIORETTI, Valentina Geoffray, Hervé Jacques, Lionel Kirsch, Christian Smith, Stephen Adams, Joseph Gloaguen, Emilie Hoogeveen, Ruud Svoboda, Jiri van der Hulst, Paul Kiviranta, Mikko van der Kuur, Jan Ledot, Aurélien van Leeuwen, Bert-Joost van Loon, Dennis Lyautey, Bertrand Parot, Yann Sakai, Kazuhiro van Weers, Henk Wilms, Joern Abdoelkariem, Shariefa Adam, Thomas Adami, Christophe Aicardi, Corinne Akamatsu, Hiroki Alonso, Pablo Eleazar Merino AMATO, Roberta André, Jérôme ANGELINELLI, MATTEO Anon-Cancela, Manuel Yamasaki, Noriko Anvar, Shebli Atienza, Ricardo Attard, Anthony AURICCHIO, NATALIA Balado, Ana Bancel, Florian Barusso, Lorenzo Ferrari Bascuñan, Arturo Bernard, Vivian Berrocal, Alicia Audard, Marc Blin, Sylvie BONINO, Donata Bonnet, François Bonny, Patrick Boorman, Peter Boreux, Charles Bounab, Ayoub Boutelier, Martin Boyce, Kevin BRIENZA, Daniele Bandler, Simon Bruijn, Marcel BULGARELLI, ANDREA Calarco, Simona Callanan, Paul Campello, Alberto Prada Camus, Thierry Canourgues, Florent Capobianco, Vito Cardiel, Nicolas Castellani, Florent BARBERA, Marco Cheatom, Oscar Chervenak, James Chiarello, Fabio Clerc, Laurent Clerc, Nicolas Cobo, Beatriz Coeur-Joly, Odile Coleiro, Alexis Colonges, Stéphane CORCIONE, Leonardo Barcons, Xavier Coriat, Mickael Coynel, Alexandre CUTTAIA, FRANCESCO D'AI', Antonino D'ANCA, FABIO DADINA, MAURO Daniel, Christophe Dauner, Lea DeNigris, Natalie Dercksen, Johannes BOZZO , ENRICO DiPirro, Michael Doumayrou, Eric Dubbeldam, Luc Dupieux, Michel Dupourqué, Simon Durand, Jean Louis Eckert, Dominique Eiriz, Valvanera Ercolani, Eric Etcheverry, Christophe Ceballos, Maria Teresa Finkbeiner, Fred FIOCCHI, MARIATERESA Fossecave, Hervé Franssen, Philippe Frericks, Martin Gabici, Stefano Gant, Florent Gao, Jian-Rong GASTALDELLO, FABIO Genolet, Ludovic Charles, Ivan GHIZZARDI, SIMONA Gil, Ma Angeles Alcacera Giovannini, Elisa Godet, Olivier Gomez-Elvira, Javier Gonzalez, Raoul Gonzalez, Manuel Gottardi, Luciano Granat, Dolorès Gros, Michel Costantini, Elisa Guignard, Nicolas Hieltjes, Paul Hurtado, Adolfo Jesús Irwin, Kent Jacquey, Christian Janiuk, Agnieszka Jaubert, Jean Jiménez, Maria Jolly, Antoine Jourdan, Thierry Dauser, Thomas Julien, Sabine Kedziora, Bartosz Korb, Andrew Kreykenbohm, Ingo König, Ole Langer, Mathieu Laudet, Philippe Laurent, Philippe LAURENZA, MONICA Lesrel, Jean Decourchelle, Anne LIGORI, Sebastiano Lorenz, Maximilian LUMINARI , ALFREDO Maffei, Bruno Maisonnave, Océane Marelli, Lorenzo Massonet, Didier Maussang, Irwin Melchor, Alejandro Gonzalo Le Mer, Isabelle Duband, Lionel Millan, Francisco Javier San Millerioux, Jean-Pierre MINEO, TERESA MINERVINI, GABRIELE Molin, Alexeï Monestes, David MONTINARO, NICOLA Mot, Baptiste Murat, David Nagayoshi, Kenichiro Duval, Jean-Marc Nazé, Yaël Noguès, Loïc Pailot, Damien PANESSA, Francesca Parodi, Luigi Petit, Pascal PICONCELLI, Enrico PINTO, CIRO Plaza, Jose Miguel Encinas Plaza, Borja FIORE, Fabrizio Poyatos, David Prouvé, Thomas Ptak, Andy Puccetti, Simonetta PUCCIO, ELENA Ramon, Pascale Reina, Manuel Rioland, Guillaume Rodriguez, Louis Roig, Anton Gatti, Flavio Rollet, Bertrand RONCARELLI, Mauro Roudil, Gilles Rudnicki, Tomasz Sanisidro, Julien SCIORTINO, LUISA Silva, Vitor Sordet, Michael Soto-Aguilar, Javier Spizzi, Pierre Goldwurm, Andrea Surace, Christian Sánchez, Miguel Fernández Taralli, Emanuele Terrasa, Guilhem Terrier, Régis TODARO, Michela UBERTINI, PIETRO USLENGHI, MICHELA de Vaate, Jan Geralt Bij Vaccaro, Davide Hartog, Roland den VARISCO, Salvatore Varnière, Peggy Vibert, Laurent Vidriales, María VILLA, Fabrizio Vodopivec, Boris Martin VOLPE, ANGELA de Vries, Cor Wakeham, Nicholas Walmsley, Gavin Jackson, Brian Wise, Michael de Wit, Martin Woźniak, Grzegorz Jonker, Peter Kilbourne, Caroline Korpela, Seppo MACCULI, CLAUDIO Mendez, Mariano Mitsuda, Kazuhisa MOLENDI, SILVANO Pajot, François Pointecouteau, Etienne Porter, Frederick Pratt, Gabriel W. Prêle, Damien Ravera, Laurent Sato, Kosuke Schaye, Joop Shinozaki, Keisuke Skup, Konrad Soucek, Jan Thibert, Tanguy Vink, Jacco Webb, Natalie Chaoul, Laurence Raulin, Desi Simionescu, Aurora Torrejon, Jose Miguel Acero, Fabio Branduardi-Raymont, Graziella ETTORI, STEFANO Finoguenov, Alexis Grosso, Nicolas Kaastra, Jelle Mazzotta, Pasquale Miller, Jon Miniutti, Giovanni NICASTRO, FABRIZIO SCIORTINO, Salvatore Yamaguchi, Hiroya Beaumont, Sophie Cucchetti, Edoardo D'ANDREA, MATTEO Eckart, Megan Ferrando, Philippe Kammoun, Elias LOTTI, Simone Mesnager, Jean-Michel NATALUCCI, LORENZO Peille, Philippe de Plaa, Jelle Ardellier, Florence ARGAN, ANDREA Bellouard, Elise Carron, Jérôme Cavazzuti, Elisabetta FIORINI, MAURO Khosropanah, Pourya Martin, Sylvain Perry, James Pinsard, Frederic Pradines, Alice Rigano, Manuela Roelfsema, Peter Schwander, Denis Torrioli, Guido Ullom, Joel Vera, Isabel Villegas, Eduardo Medinaceli Zuchniak, Monika Brachet, Frank LO CICERO, UGO |
Issue Date: | 2023 |
Journal: | EXPERIMENTAL ASTRONOMY |
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 the original X-IFU related scientific objectives of the Athena mission to be retained. The X-IFU will be provided by an international consortium led by France, The Netherlands and Italy, with ESA member state contributions from Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, with additional contributions from the United States and Japan. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/33972 |
URL: | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10686-022-09880-7 |
ISSN: | 0922-6435 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s10686-022-09880-7 |
Bibcode ADS: | 2023ExA...tmp....8B |
Fulltext: | open |
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