Athena NuggetsSmall pieces of wisdom about scientific and technical topics with the aim of approaching Athena not only to the scientific community but also to the non-experts. Buscar #AthenaNuggets 58: A magnetic broom for sweeping protons off the Athena focal plane 08 Dec 2021 Valentina Fioretti, Osservatorio di astrofisica e scienza dello spazio di Bologna - INAFLow-energy charged particles can emulate the grazing... Read more #AthenaNuggets 57: The hunt for high-redshift quasars 06 Oct 2021 Julien Wolf, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial PhysicsQuasars constitute an ultra-luminous subspecies of active galactic nuclei (AGN). Read more #AthenaNuggets 56: Flashy Calibration for the Athena/X-IFU X-ray Spectrometer 08 Sep 2021 Cor de Vries, SRON - Netherlands Institute for Space ResearchAs with every instrument, the X-IFU micro-calorimeter X-ray spectrometer on... Read more #AthenaNuggets 55: Unveiling the Nature of the Mysterious Soft X-ray Excess in Active Galactic Nuclei 07 Jul 2021 Francesco Ursini1, Giorgio Matt1 & Pierre-Olivier Petrucci2(1) Roma Tre University(2) IPAGWhile all galaxies... Read more #AthenaNuggets 54: Interstellar Dust in Our Galaxy 09 Jun 2021 Elisa Costantini (SRON, Netherlands)Dust is everywhere in the Universe, from stellar disks that eventually form planets and life to... Read more #AthenaNuggets 53: Searching for String Theory with Athena 05 May 2021 Francesca Chadha-Day, Durham UniversityString theory is a theory of quantum gravity. Read more #AthenaNuggets 52: X-IFU Filters: Soap Bubbles to Block Undesired Photons 07 Apr 2021 Marco Barbera, Università degli Studi di Palermo & Osservatorio Astronomico di PalermoThe X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU), an... Read more #AthenaNuggets 51: Gazing into the history of the Universe: How stars and supernovae shape the chemistry of galaxy clusters 03 Mar 2021 François Mernier1 & Edoardo Cucchetti2 (1) ESA/ESTEC(2) CNESAs Carl Sagan famously observed, “We are made of star-stuff”. Read more #AthenaNuggets 50: Shaking the WFI Optical Blocking Filters: Vibration of Foils Thinner than Paper 03 Feb 2021 Valeria Antonelli & Jintin Frank, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial PhysicsOptical blocking filters (OBF), described in #AthenaNuggets 23 and... Read more Pagination First page « Previous page ‹‹ Page 1 Current page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Next page ›› Last page »
#AthenaNuggets 58: A magnetic broom for sweeping protons off the Athena focal plane 08 Dec 2021 Valentina Fioretti, Osservatorio di astrofisica e scienza dello spazio di Bologna - INAFLow-energy charged particles can emulate the grazing... Read more
#AthenaNuggets 57: The hunt for high-redshift quasars 06 Oct 2021 Julien Wolf, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial PhysicsQuasars constitute an ultra-luminous subspecies of active galactic nuclei (AGN). Read more
#AthenaNuggets 56: Flashy Calibration for the Athena/X-IFU X-ray Spectrometer 08 Sep 2021 Cor de Vries, SRON - Netherlands Institute for Space ResearchAs with every instrument, the X-IFU micro-calorimeter X-ray spectrometer on... Read more
#AthenaNuggets 55: Unveiling the Nature of the Mysterious Soft X-ray Excess in Active Galactic Nuclei 07 Jul 2021 Francesco Ursini1, Giorgio Matt1 & Pierre-Olivier Petrucci2(1) Roma Tre University(2) IPAGWhile all galaxies... Read more
#AthenaNuggets 54: Interstellar Dust in Our Galaxy 09 Jun 2021 Elisa Costantini (SRON, Netherlands)Dust is everywhere in the Universe, from stellar disks that eventually form planets and life to... Read more
#AthenaNuggets 53: Searching for String Theory with Athena 05 May 2021 Francesca Chadha-Day, Durham UniversityString theory is a theory of quantum gravity. Read more
#AthenaNuggets 52: X-IFU Filters: Soap Bubbles to Block Undesired Photons 07 Apr 2021 Marco Barbera, Università degli Studi di Palermo & Osservatorio Astronomico di PalermoThe X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU), an... Read more
#AthenaNuggets 51: Gazing into the history of the Universe: How stars and supernovae shape the chemistry of galaxy clusters 03 Mar 2021 François Mernier1 & Edoardo Cucchetti2 (1) ESA/ESTEC(2) CNESAs Carl Sagan famously observed, “We are made of star-stuff”. Read more
#AthenaNuggets 50: Shaking the WFI Optical Blocking Filters: Vibration of Foils Thinner than Paper 03 Feb 2021 Valeria Antonelli & Jintin Frank, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial PhysicsOptical blocking filters (OBF), described in #AthenaNuggets 23 and... Read more
