Unveiling the secrets of the hot and energetic Universe

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The X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU)

The X-IFU is a revolutionary X-ray spectrometer, one of the two instruments of the European Space Agency’s future space telescope, NewAthena. It will observe with X-ray eyes, the hot and energetic Universe, a world of clusters of galaxies, black holes, and exploding stars.

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Find out about this revolutionary instrument of ESA’s NewAthena mission

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Assembly of Demonstration Model for X-IFU’s camera is now complete

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

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Wide band transmission response of X-IFU thermal filters

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

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X-IFU Consortium meeting #20

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

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People of X-IFU

"By improving spectral and angular resolutions, with such a large effective area, NewAthena X-IFU will represent a major step for X-ray astronomy."

Jiri Svoboda

Astronomer at the Astronomic Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences

"Every major leap in our observing capabilities in the past has led to unexpected discoveries, and I hope nature will not fail to surprise us also this time around."

Aurora Simionescu

Co-PI & Research Scientist at SRON, Netherlands

"Once NewAthena X-IFU will be launched, observation of the sky will be taken to a whole new level. The instrument should be able to reveal the origin of the universe!"

Teresa Mineo

Physicist at INAF, Italy

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