Announcement

Jiri Svoboda from the Astronomical Institute (Czech Academy of Science) has been appointed board member, and Jan Soucek from the […]

After more than four years of existence as a proto-consortium, on December 11th, 2018, following the successful completion of the […]

Big day at IRAP, the Cryostat is now fully integrated and cooling down. This high precision technology equipment will eventually […]

In preparation of the consortium formalization by ESA, an additional five X-IFU co-investigators were recently appointed : S. Bandler (US), E. […]

The new X-IFU web site, developed by Studio Urbain, released on May 11th, 2016. It is an evolution of the […]

Resources for the Athena Working Groups for the Athena Science Impact Exercise have been uploaded. See Resources

ESA appointed today the Athena Science Study Team: Kirpal Nandra (Lead scientist), Xavier Barcons, Didier Barret, Anne Decourchelle, Andy Fabian, […]

ESA has selected the Athena advanced telescope for high-energy astrophysics as its second ‘Large-class’ science mission. See the ESA press […]