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 49: Squeezing of Pulsar Wind Nebulae 13 Jan 2021 Diego F. Torres, ICREA - Institute of Space SciencesEven though pulsars are best-known for their periodic pulses, their pulsed... Read more #AthenaNuggets 48: Mapping the Surroundings of Supermassive Black Holes 02 Dec 2020 Stefano Bianchi, Università degli Studi Roma TreSupermassive black holes (SMBHs hereafter) are ubiquitous in the center of galaxies, including... Read more #AthenaNuggets 47: Finding the needle in the haystack: The Cryogenic AntiCoincidence 07 Oct 2020 Claudio Macculi (INAF/IAPS) on behalf of X-IFU CryoAC teamBeating down the X-IFU particle background is fundamental to enable several... Read more #AthenaNuggets 46: Accretion disks torn apart by magnetic neutron stars 02 Sep 2020 Nathalie Degenaar, Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy, Univ. AmsterdamAstronomical bodies attract material from their surroundings due to their gravity... Read more #AthenaNuggets 45: Distributed Control and Data Processing onboard Athena WFI 02 Jul 2020 Markus Plattner, Max Planck Institute for extraterrestrial PhysicsThe Wide Field Imager (WFI) is a camera with a detector based... Read more #AthenaNuggets 44: The hunt for super-Eddington accretion flows in ultraluminous X-ray sources 03 Jun 2020 Ciro Pinto, Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica - PalermoThere is nothing hungrier than black holes in the... Read more #AthenaNuggets 43: First development model of the X-IFU Focal Plane Assembly ready for test 06 May 2020 Henk van Weers, SRON, on behalf of the X-IFU FPA teamWithin Athena, the primary mirror concentrates the... Read more #AthenaNuggets 42: Tracing The Expanding Universe with Quasars 01 Apr 2020 Elisabeta Lusso, University of FlorenceFirst discovered at the end of the 90's by measuring the distances of exploding stars... Read more #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 Pagination First page « Previous page ‹‹ Page 1 Page 2 Current page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Next page ›› Last page »
#AthenaNuggets 49: Squeezing of Pulsar Wind Nebulae 13 Jan 2021 Diego F. Torres, ICREA - Institute of Space SciencesEven though pulsars are best-known for their periodic pulses, their pulsed... Read more
#AthenaNuggets 48: Mapping the Surroundings of Supermassive Black Holes 02 Dec 2020 Stefano Bianchi, Università degli Studi Roma TreSupermassive black holes (SMBHs hereafter) are ubiquitous in the center of galaxies, including... Read more
#AthenaNuggets 47: Finding the needle in the haystack: The Cryogenic AntiCoincidence 07 Oct 2020 Claudio Macculi (INAF/IAPS) on behalf of X-IFU CryoAC teamBeating down the X-IFU particle background is fundamental to enable several... Read more
#AthenaNuggets 46: Accretion disks torn apart by magnetic neutron stars 02 Sep 2020 Nathalie Degenaar, Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy, Univ. AmsterdamAstronomical bodies attract material from their surroundings due to their gravity... Read more
#AthenaNuggets 45: Distributed Control and Data Processing onboard Athena WFI 02 Jul 2020 Markus Plattner, Max Planck Institute for extraterrestrial PhysicsThe Wide Field Imager (WFI) is a camera with a detector based... Read more
#AthenaNuggets 44: The hunt for super-Eddington accretion flows in ultraluminous X-ray sources 03 Jun 2020 Ciro Pinto, Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica - PalermoThere is nothing hungrier than black holes in the... Read more
#AthenaNuggets 43: First development model of the X-IFU Focal Plane Assembly ready for test 06 May 2020 Henk van Weers, SRON, on behalf of the X-IFU FPA teamWithin Athena, the primary mirror concentrates the... Read more
#AthenaNuggets 42: Tracing The Expanding Universe with Quasars 01 Apr 2020 Elisabeta Lusso, University of FlorenceFirst discovered at the end of the 90's by measuring the distances of exploding stars... Read more
#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
