SPIE Digital Forum 2020

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 in this event with presentations and posters showing the latest developments of the instrument. You can find them in the section “Space telescopes and instrumentation 2020: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray (Conference 11444)”.

We are listing below all X-IFU-related contributions to the SPIE 2020.

Presentations at SPIE

Session 7: Athena I

• The X-ray Integral Field Unit instrument: Design and performances (SPIE Paper 11444-27) – Didier Barret, IRAP

Session 8: Athena II

• The X-IFU focal plane assembly development model integration and first test results (SPIE Paper 11444-28) – Henk van Weers, SRON
• Frequency domain multiplexing technology of transition-edge sensors for x-ray astronomy (SPIE Paper 11444-30) – Hiroki Akamatsu, SRON
• Main sensor array detection chain sub-system for the X-IFU instrument (SPIE Paper 11444-29) – Hervé Geoffray, CNES

Posters at SPIE

Session P4: Posters – Athena

• Warm front end electronic modelization for the X-IFU ATHENA readout chain simulation (SPIE Paper 11444-45) – Damien Prêle, APC
• ATHENA warm ASIC for the X-IFU electronics (SPIE Paper 11444-52) – Si Chen, APC
• A test platform for the detection and readout chain for the Athena X-IFU (SPIE Paper 11444-55) – Gabriele Betancourt-Martinez, IRAP
• Effects of spatial inhomogeneities in Athena/X-IFU Optical and Thermal filters investigated by numerical analysis (SPIE Paper 11444-60) – Ugo Lo Cicero, INAF
• The cryogenic anticoincidence detector for ATHENA X-IFU: advancement in the project (SPIE Paper 11444-61) – Claudio Macculi, INAF

Session P17: Posters – Detectors

• Pulse processing in TES detectors: comparative of different short filter methods based on optimal filtering: case study for Athena X-IFU (SPIE Paper 11444-188) – Beatriz Cobo, Univ. de Cantabria

This article will be updated with the links to the published papers.