Technological NuggetsSmall pieces of wisdom about technology to approach Athena's unique capabilities to the scientific community but also to the non-experts. Buscar #AthenaNuggets 41: On the Athena ground segment 04 Mar 2020 Michael Watson1, Natalie Webb2 (1) University of Leicester(2) IRAPThe term “ground segment” is used in... Read more #AthenaNuggets 39: SAC or the art of turning the WFI Large Detector Array into the Anti-Coincidence of itself 04 Oct 2019 Silvano Molendi (IASF-Milano/INAF) on behalf of the WFI Background Working GroupIf you were to ask an X-ray astronomer what... Read more #AthenaNuggets 37: Specific Integrated Circuit for the X-IFU Warm Front-End Electronics 31 May 2019 Damien Prêle (APC) on behalf of the WFEE and X-IFU detection chain teamThe X-IFU (X-ray Integral Field Unit) instrument... Read more #AthenaNuggets 35: Fast onboard data preprocessing for the Athena Wide Field Imager 05 Apr 2019 Chris Tenzer (Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik, Universität Tübingen) on behalf of the WFI detector electronics groupThe focal plane... Read more #AthenaNuggets 31: From Amps to eVs: the reconstruction process of the X-ray photons 30 Nov 2018 Maite Ceballos. Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA), on behalf of the X-IFU event processing teamIn the #AthenaNuggets... Read more #AthenaNuggets 29: A DEPFET detector for Athena’s Wide Field Imager Instrument 05 Oct 2018 Norbert Meidinger (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics) on behalf of the WFI detector development groupThe WFI instrument onboard... Read more #AthenaNuggets 25: Reading X-ray detector signals out in MHz frequency space 01 Jun 2018 Hiroki Akamatsu on behalf of the team developing the X-IFU detector readout technology, SRONThe X-ray integral field unit (X-IFU)... Read more #AthenaNuggets23: Protecting the Athena/WFI from UV and visible light 06 Apr 2018 Marco Barbera, Dipartimento di Fisica e Chimica - Università degli Studi di PalermoThe DEPFET detectors foreseen for the Wide... Read more #AthenaNuggets 21: Balancing on the Edge: Detecting X-rays with Transition Edge Sensors 01 Feb 2018 Simon Bandler (NASA/GSFC), on behalf of the team developing the X-IFU X-ray microcalorimeter arrays.At the core of... Read more Pagination First page « Previous page ‹‹ Page 1 Current page 2 Page 3 Next page ›› Last page »
#AthenaNuggets 41: On the Athena ground segment 04 Mar 2020 Michael Watson1, Natalie Webb2 (1) University of Leicester(2) IRAPThe term “ground segment” is used in... Read more
#AthenaNuggets 39: SAC or the art of turning the WFI Large Detector Array into the Anti-Coincidence of itself 04 Oct 2019 Silvano Molendi (IASF-Milano/INAF) on behalf of the WFI Background Working GroupIf you were to ask an X-ray astronomer what... Read more
#AthenaNuggets 37: Specific Integrated Circuit for the X-IFU Warm Front-End Electronics 31 May 2019 Damien Prêle (APC) on behalf of the WFEE and X-IFU detection chain teamThe X-IFU (X-ray Integral Field Unit) instrument... Read more
#AthenaNuggets 35: Fast onboard data preprocessing for the Athena Wide Field Imager 05 Apr 2019 Chris Tenzer (Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik, Universität Tübingen) on behalf of the WFI detector electronics groupThe focal plane... Read more
#AthenaNuggets 31: From Amps to eVs: the reconstruction process of the X-ray photons 30 Nov 2018 Maite Ceballos. Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA), on behalf of the X-IFU event processing teamIn the #AthenaNuggets... Read more
#AthenaNuggets 29: A DEPFET detector for Athena’s Wide Field Imager Instrument 05 Oct 2018 Norbert Meidinger (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics) on behalf of the WFI detector development groupThe WFI instrument onboard... Read more
#AthenaNuggets 25: Reading X-ray detector signals out in MHz frequency space 01 Jun 2018 Hiroki Akamatsu on behalf of the team developing the X-IFU detector readout technology, SRONThe X-ray integral field unit (X-IFU)... Read more
#AthenaNuggets23: Protecting the Athena/WFI from UV and visible light 06 Apr 2018 Marco Barbera, Dipartimento di Fisica e Chimica - Università degli Studi di PalermoThe DEPFET detectors foreseen for the Wide... Read more
#AthenaNuggets 21: Balancing on the Edge: Detecting X-rays with Transition Edge Sensors 01 Feb 2018 Simon Bandler (NASA/GSFC), on behalf of the team developing the X-IFU X-ray microcalorimeter arrays.At the core of... Read more