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.
It is a technical event for ground-based, airborne, and space-based telescopes, and their supporting instrumentation.
From November 20 to 22, 178 men and women gathered online for the 17th meeting of the X-IFU consortium.
Congratulations to Florent CASTELLANI who defended his thesis entitled « Study of the scientific and instrumental performances of Athena’s X-Ray Integral Field Unit », on Friday November 17, 2023 at IRAP.
The X-IFU Consortium meeting #16 will take place in Toulouse on June 19th-23rd in hybrid format. It will provide the opportunity to review X-IFU as we are cruising through the reformulation phase of Athena.
A New X-IFU has arrived! From 29 November to 1st December, 186 women and men gathered online for the 15th X-IFU Consortium Meeting. The Consortium meeting was focused on the reformulation activities of X-IFU. Those activities aim at simplifying the instrument, so that those simplifications will enable a significant reduction of the mission cost to ESA. ESA, […]
We are pleased to announce the first edition of the Athena School: “The Universe in the era of spatially resolved, high-resolution, X-ray spectroscopy”. This CNRS thematic school will be held from the 20th to the 24th of June 2022 in Toulouse, France. It is open to the whole French astronomical community, regardless of prior experience […]
The 14th X-IFU Consortium Meeting (CM14) took place virtually from 29 November to 3 December 2021. The meeting was very well attended with each plenary session welcoming over 100 participants, and the most popular one reaching 145 people. Members of the Consortium learned about the key updates related to the instrument development and its scientific […]
The 13th X-IFU Consortium Meeting (CM13) took place virtually from 3 to 7 May 2021. In this now familiar virtual setting, Consortium members gathered to follow the latest updates about the instrument. 34 speakers presented their most recent work over 3 plenary sessions and a technical session. They showed, once more, the quality of the […]