The international society for optics and photonics (SPIE) is organising its annual Astronomical telescopes and instrumentation Symposium. This year, the event is held as a digital forum from 14 to 18 December, 2020. With the exception of some live plenaries, most sessions will be available on demand for registered participants. X-IFU Consortium members are participating […]
The 12th X-IFU Consortium Meeting (CM12) took place this week, from 2nd to 6th of November, 2020. Due to the current pandemic, this meeting was held, once again, virtually. It was a very well attended meeting. For this second edition in a virtual setting, a total of 215 members registered and over 150 simultaneous participants […]
This week, from 6th to 9th of April, the X-IU held its 11th Consortium meeting (CM11), fully virtually for the first time. This proved to be a very positive experience and both X-IFU’s Principal Investigator and Project Manager praised the high quality of the exchanges. This CM11 was originally supposed to take place in Liège, […]
The 10th X-IFU Consortium Meeting was hosted by IRAP in Toulouse from Monday 16th to Friday 20th of September. Participants met during various splinters and all together for the two days of plenary sessions. The programme was rich in topics related to activities triggered by the Instrument Preliminary Requirement Review (IPRR), which was held and […]
The eighth X-IFU Consortium meeting was hosted by the University of Geneva. It span from September 10th to 14th. As usual, the meeting consisted of splinter meetings and plenary sessions. Beside the XSAT splinter and some technical meetings on JAXA coolers and on the Detector Cooling System, one splinter meeting was devoted to the preparation […]
The 7th consortium meeting spread over a full week was held at the Astroparticle and Cosmology Laboratory (ApC) in Paris from March 19th to 24th. The organization of the whole week was led by Damien Prêle. ApC provides a major component of the X-IFU, namely the so-called warm front end electronics, the closest part of […]
We had a workshop at NASA/GSFC about Time Domain Multiplexing as a backup to the current Frequency Domain Multiplexing readout. The meeting went extremely well, was well prepared by our US colleagues, and very informative. SRON, CNES, IRAP and APC participated to the workshop in addition to our US colleagues from NASA, NIST. It will […]
The sixth X-IFU consortium meeting took place from September 11th to 15th in Madrid at CSIC headquarters. It was hosted by Miguel Mas Hesse (CAB-INTA) and his team, during a very sunny, hot and beautiful week in Madrid. More than 120 X-IFU team members participated in the 18 splinters and the 1.5 days of the […]
The next IPM (#2) will take place at CNES Toulouse on June 14-15th, 2017. It will review the progresses made on all sub-systems.