Announcement

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. Costantini (NS), L. Duband (FR), K. Sakai (JP) to which a German CoI will be soon added. Four scientists joined the X-IFU science advisory team : S. Ettori (IT), J. Kaastra (NL), P. Mazzotta (IT), A. […]

Newsletter

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 the X-IFU Gazette. Thanks to all the contributors to this new Gazette. Enjoy the reading. Don’t hesitate to provide feedback to Françoise (Francoise.Douchin@cnes.fr) on the content of the X-IFU Gazette. Best regards, Françoise and Didier

Event

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 from March 19th to 24th. The organization of the whole week was led by Damien Prêle. ApC provides a major component of the X-IFU, namely the so-called warm front end electronics, the closest part of […]

Newsletter

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 of the X-IFU Gazette. Thanks to all the contributors to this new Gazette. Enjoy the reading. Don’t hesitate to provide feedback to Françoise (Francoise.Douchin@cnes.fr) on the content of the X-IFU Gazette. Best regards, Françoise and […]

Event

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. The meeting went extremely well, was well prepared by our US colleagues, and very informative. SRON, CNES, IRAP and APC participated to the workshop in addition to our US colleagues from NASA, NIST. It will […]

Newsletter

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 of the X-IFU Gazette. The slight delay is due to the fact that we wanted to include a note by Luigi Piro on the detection of the X-ray counterpart of the neutron star merger that shacked […]

Event

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 by Miguel Mas Hesse (CAB-INTA) and his team, during a very sunny, hot and beautiful week in Madrid. More than 120 X-IFU team members participated in the 18 splinters and the 1.5 days of the […]

Science

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 here.

Newsletter

Release of the July 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 N°4 July 15th 2017 issue of the X-IFU Gazette. Enjoy the reading. Don’t hesitate to provide feedback to Françoise (Francoise.Douchin@cnes.fr) on the content of the X-IFU Gazette. Best regards, Françoise and Didier