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Reconstructing a three dimensional view of stellar explosions

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.

X-IFU Gazette #10 just released!

The 10th issue of the X-IFU Gazette has just been released.

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New appointments within the consortium

Jiri Svoboda from the Astronomical Institute (Czech Academy of Science) has been appointed board member, and Jan Soucek from the […]

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Merry christmas and happy new year!

Time has come to close 2018. This has been another very important year for X-IFU with the formal appointment of […]

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Athena X-IFU becomes an official consortium!

After more than four years of existence as a proto-consortium, on December 11th, 2018, following the successful completion of the […]

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The X-IFU Gazette #9

EDITORIAL September was a rather busy month for X-IFU. Following the X-IFU Consortium meeting #8 held in Geneva on the […]

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A fruitful Consortium Meeting #8

The eighth X-IFU Consortium meeting was hosted by the University of Geneva. It span from September 10th to 14th. As […]

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IRAP, now the coolest spot of Toulouse

Big day at IRAP, the Cryostat is now fully integrated and cooling down. This high precision technology equipment will eventually […]

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SPIE 2018 X-IFU overview paper

The overview X-IFU paper published in the proceedings of the SPIE 2018 in Austin (TX) is available from the ArXiv.

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Release of the July 2018 issue of the X-IFU Gazette (#8)

Thanks to Françoise Douchin, on behalf of the editorial team, I am pleased to announce the release of the July 2018 of […]

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X-IFU overview presentation at the SPIE 2018

Here you will find the overview X-IFU presentation at the SPIE meeting in Austin, on June 13th, 2018.

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CoI and XSAT nominations

In preparation of the consortium formalization by ESA, an additional five X-IFU co-investigators were recently appointed : S. Bandler (US), E. […]

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Release of the April 2018 issue of the X-IFU Gazette

Thanks to Françoise Douchin, on behalf of the editorial team, I am pleased to announce the release of the April 2018 of […]

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