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.

The first X-IFU consortium took place at IRAP in Toulouse (France). The meeting focused on the mission proposal and the organisation of the X-IFU proto-consortium.