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Successful coupling of the X-IFU Warm Front-End Electronics demonstrator at SRON

A major milestone has been reached beginning of October 2025 in the development of the Warm Front-End Electronics (WFEE) for […]

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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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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