Francisco Javier Veredas (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics)

A former classmate, when finishing his physics degree, told me that...

INTA-Cryostat for 2K Core Calibration team, INTA

Extraordinary space instrumentation requests extraordinary characterization tools.

Valentina Fioretti, Osservatorio di astrofisica e scienza dello spazio di Bologna - INAF

Low-energy charged particles can emulate the grazing...

Cor de Vries,  SRON - Netherlands Institute for Space Research

As with every instrument, the X-IFU micro-calorimeter X-ray spectrometer on...

Marco Barbera, Università degli Studi di Palermo & Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo

The X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU), an...

Valeria Antonelli & Jintin Frank, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics

Optical blocking filters (OBF), described in #AthenaNuggets 23 and...

Claudio Macculi (INAF/IAPS) on behalf of X-IFU CryoAC team

Beating down the X-IFU particle background is fundamental to enable several...

Markus Plattner, Max Planck Institute for extraterrestrial Physics

The Wide Field Imager (WFI) is a camera with a detector based...

Henk van Weers, SRON, on behalf of the X-IFU FPA team

Within Athena, the primary mirror concentrates the...