Athena Nuggets Small 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 #AthenaNuggets23: Protecting the Athena/WFI from UV and visible light 06 Apr 2018 Marco Barbera, Dipartimento di Fisica e Chimica - Università degli Studi di Palermo The DEPFET detectors foreseen for the Wide... Read more #AthenaNuggets 22: Athena and the Square Kilometer Array joining forces to detect the most rarefied gas in the Universe 02 Mar 2018 Franco Vazza1, Stefano Ettori2 & Chiara Ferrari3 (1) Università di Bologna,Universität Hamburg (2) Osservatorio di Astrofisica... 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 #AthenaNuggets 20: Unveiling the Hot, High Redshift Universe with the Athena WFI 06 Jan 2018 Steven Allen & Adam Mantz, Stanford University Studies of galaxy groups and galaxy clusters, the largest objects in the Universe... Read more #AthenaNuggets 19: Athena End-to-End Simulations 05 Jan 2018 J. Wilms1 (ECAP), P. Peille2 (CNES), T. Dauser1 (ECAP) & E. Cucchetti3 (IRAP) (1)... Read more #AthenaNuggets 19: Accretion and Ejection Around Black Holes: the Disc-Jet Connection 30 Nov 2017 Chris Done, Center for Extragalactic Astronomy, Department of Physics, University of Durham Black holes are black, but material captured by... Read more #AthenaNuggets 17: Observing Bright Sources with the Athena-WFI 02 Nov 2017 Jörn Wilms1, Thomas Dauser1 and Arne Rau2 (1)Remeis Observatory & ECAP, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (2)Max-Planck Institut fuer... Read more #AthenaNuggets 16: Ultra-Luminous X-Ray Sources: When Compact Objects Become Gluttonous Accretors 05 Oct 2017 Christian Motch. Observatoire Astronomique Strasbourg Galaxies often host non-nuclear accreting ultra-luminous X-ray sources (ULXs). Read more #AthenaNuggets 15: Athena Instrument Background 27 Sep 2017 Simone Lotti1 & Silvano Molendi2 (1) INAF/IAPS (2) INAF/IASF Observations of faint X-ray sources are traditionally limited by instrumental background. Read more Pagination First page « Previous page ‹‹ Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Current page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Next page ›› Last page »
#AthenaNuggets23: Protecting the Athena/WFI from UV and visible light 06 Apr 2018 Marco Barbera, Dipartimento di Fisica e Chimica - Università degli Studi di Palermo The DEPFET detectors foreseen for the Wide... Read more
#AthenaNuggets 22: Athena and the Square Kilometer Array joining forces to detect the most rarefied gas in the Universe 02 Mar 2018 Franco Vazza1, Stefano Ettori2 & Chiara Ferrari3 (1) Università di Bologna,Universität Hamburg (2) Osservatorio di Astrofisica... 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
#AthenaNuggets 20: Unveiling the Hot, High Redshift Universe with the Athena WFI 06 Jan 2018 Steven Allen & Adam Mantz, Stanford University Studies of galaxy groups and galaxy clusters, the largest objects in the Universe... Read more
#AthenaNuggets 19: Athena End-to-End Simulations 05 Jan 2018 J. Wilms1 (ECAP), P. Peille2 (CNES), T. Dauser1 (ECAP) & E. Cucchetti3 (IRAP) (1)... Read more
#AthenaNuggets 19: Accretion and Ejection Around Black Holes: the Disc-Jet Connection 30 Nov 2017 Chris Done, Center for Extragalactic Astronomy, Department of Physics, University of Durham Black holes are black, but material captured by... Read more
#AthenaNuggets 17: Observing Bright Sources with the Athena-WFI 02 Nov 2017 Jörn Wilms1, Thomas Dauser1 and Arne Rau2 (1)Remeis Observatory & ECAP, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (2)Max-Planck Institut fuer... Read more
#AthenaNuggets 16: Ultra-Luminous X-Ray Sources: When Compact Objects Become Gluttonous Accretors 05 Oct 2017 Christian Motch. Observatoire Astronomique Strasbourg Galaxies often host non-nuclear accreting ultra-luminous X-ray sources (ULXs). Read more
#AthenaNuggets 15: Athena Instrument Background 27 Sep 2017 Simone Lotti1 & Silvano Molendi2 (1) INAF/IAPS (2) INAF/IASF Observations of faint X-ray sources are traditionally limited by instrumental background. Read more