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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.

Wrap-up of Consortium meeting #7

The 7th consortium meeting spread over a full week was held at the Astroparticle and Cosmology Laboratory (ApC) in Paris […]

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Release of the January 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 January 2018 issue […]

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TDM workshop very successful

We had a workshop at NASA/GSFC about Time Domain Multiplexing as a backup to the current Frequency Domain Multiplexing readout. […]

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Release of the October 2017 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 October 2017 issue […]

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X-IFU week in Madrid is over

The sixth X-IFU consortium meeting took place from September 11th to 15th in Madrid at CSIC headquarters. It was hosted […]

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X-IFU presentation at the Power of X-ray spectroscopy conference

Overview presentation of the X-IFU at the Power of X-ray Spectroscopy conference in Warsaw (September 6-8th, 2017) can be found […]

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Release of the July 2017 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 N°4 […]

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X-IFU status presentation at X-ray Universe Conference – Roma

Overview status presentation at the 2017 X-ray Universe conference in Roma by Didier Barret (see slides).

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Integrated progress meeting at CNES

The next IPM (#2) will take place at CNES Toulouse on June 14-15th, 2017. It will review the progresses made […]

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Release of the April 2017 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 N°3 […]

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Athena and its high count rate capabilities

Talk given by D. Barret at the EXTP Conference in Roma (Feb 6-8th, 2017).

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Release of the January 2017 issue of the X-IFU Gazette

Thanks to Françoise Douchin, on behalf of the editorial team, I am please to announce the release of the January […]

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