Science

The Athena mirror will use an innovative technology called Silicon Pore Optics (SPO). The technology, combined with appropriate over coating, […]

It was just over 40 years ago when Jupiter’s X-ray aurora was discovered with the Einstein Observatory. Since then, we […]

The overview X-IFU paper published in the proceedings of the SPIE 2018 in Austin (TX) is available from the ArXiv.

Here you will find the overview X-IFU presentation at the SPIE meeting in Austin, on June 13th, 2018.

Overview presentation of the X-IFU at the Power of X-ray Spectroscopy conference in Warsaw (September 6-8th, 2017) can be found […]

Overview status presentation at the 2017 X-ray Universe conference in Roma by Didier Barret (see slides).

Talk given by D. Barret at the EXTP Conference in Roma (Feb 6-8th, 2017).

Latest Athena and X-IFU presentation given at the Breaking the limits conference in Sardinia (Italy, September 2016). Click here to […]

The SPIE paper was submitted to the SPIE digital proceedings. This is a rather large overview paper describing on where […]

Presentation given on behalf of the X-IFU consortium can be found here.