On 26th and 27th of October, 2015 IRAP hosted the 3rd X-IFU consortium meeting. This meeting was focussed on describing the project organisation with the new CNES team, the development philosophy, and the activities towards the definition of the instrument specifications. It was also the opportunity for the consortium partners across Europe, US and Japan to present a status of their activities. The meeting was attended by more than 100 engineers and scientists.

Get the agenda here and the group picture.

Presentation given on behalf of the X-IFU consortium can be found here.

Resources for the Athena Working Groups for the Athena Science Impact Exercise have been uploaded. See Resources

The X-IFU Consortium Board Meeting will take place at IRAP on Feb. 25th. It will include the full board with Japanese and US representatives. This is the Agenda.

ESA appointed today the Athena Science Study Team: Kirpal Nandra (Lead scientist), Xavier Barcons, Didier Barret, Anne Decourchelle, Andy Fabian, Jan-Willem den Herder, Hironori Matsumoto, Luigi Piro, Randall Smith, Dick Willingale. More here

ESA has selected the Athena advanced telescope for high-energy astrophysics as its second ‘Large-class’ science mission. See the ESA press release

X-IFU FPA meeting is taking place at SRON.

The 2nd X-IFU consortium meeting will take place at IAPS from October 28th to 30th.

Meeting in Roma (IAPS) to discuss and start organising the work to be done on the X-IFU instrumental background.