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The paper titled “Wide Band Transmission Response of the Filters for the X-IFU Detector of the Athena Observatory”, presented at ICSO […]

Last week we had the 20th X-IFU Consortium meeting at IRAP in an hybrid format. A very successful gathering, in […]

A major milestone has been reached beginning of October 2025 in the development of the Warm Front-End Electronics (WFEE) for […]

Image above : The CryoAC demonstration prototype integrated in the detectors flange of the Focal Plane Assembly Demonstration Model 1.1. […]

SRON is responsible for building the camera for the X-IFU imaging spectrometer onboard the NewAthena X-ray space telescope. A latest […]

From July 2023 to November 2023, the Athena mission and its instruments underwent a reformulation phase. This led to a modification of certain X-IFU performances, detailed in the new scientific reference publication on the instrument. The publication has just been published in Experimental Astronomy.

From the calcium in our bones to the iron in our blood, and oxygen we breathe, are largely the result of stellar processes, particularly supernovae. In the well known sentence  “we are all made of stars,” we acknowledge our cosmic heritage and the role of these stellar explosions in making life possible.

L’événement a eu lieu le vendredi 4 octobre de 18h à minuit à la Cité de l’espace.

Massimo Cappi, Chair of the X-IFU Science Advisory Team (XSAT) and astrophysicist at INAF-OAS Bologna, looks back on his career and explains his role in the project.

Find the latest scientific publications related to X-IFU for the period May, June & July 2024 and links to ArXiv and Springer.

We were represented at the Communicating Astronomy with the Public Conference, held in Toulouse, Cité de l’espace on 24—28 June 2024 and online. It is the only large-scale and international conference for astronomy communication.

The publication is freely available on ArXiv.