The X-ray Integral Field Unit at the end of the Athena reformulation phase
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| author | Peille, Philippe Barret, Didier Cucchetti, Edoardo Albouys, Vincent Piro, Luigi Simionescu, Aurora Cappi, Massimo Bellouard, Elise Cénac-Morthé, Céline Daniel, Christophe Pradines, Alice Finoguenov, Alexis Kelley, Richard Mas-Hesse, J. Miguel Paltani, Stéphane Rauw, Gregor Rozanska, Agata Svoboda, Jiri Wilms, Joern Audard, Marc Bozzo, Enrico Costantini, Elisa Dadina, Mauro Dauser, Thomas Decourchelle, Anne Herder, Jan-Willem den Goldwurm, Andrea Jonker, Peter Markowitz, Alex Mendez, Mariano Miniutti, Giovanni Molendi, Silvano Nicastro, Fabrizio Pajot, François Pointecouteau, Etienne Pratt, Gabriel W. Schaye, Joop Vink, Jacco Webb, Natalie Bandler, Simon Barbera, Marco Ceballos, Maria Teresa Charles, Ivan Hartog, Roland den Doriese, W. Bertrand Duval, Jean-Marc Gatti, Flavio Jackson, Brian Kilbourne, Caroline Macculi, Claudio Martin, Sylvain Parot, Yann Porter, Frederick Prêle, Damien Ravera, Laurent Smith, Stephen Soucek, Jan Thibert, Tanguy Tuominen, Eija Acero, Fabio Ettori, Stefano Grosso, Nicolas Kaastra, Jelle Mazzotta, Pasquale Miller, Jon Sciortino, Salvatore Beaumont, Sophie D'Andrea, Matteo de Plaa, Jelle Eckart, Megan Gottardi, Luciano Leutenegger, Maurice Lotti, Simone Molin, Alexei Natalucci, Lorenzo Adil, Muhammad Qazi Argan, Andrea Cavazzuti, Elisabetta Fiorini, Mauro Khosropanah, Pourya Villegas, Eduardo Medinaceli Minervini, Gabriele Perry, James Pinsard, Frederic Raulin, Desi Rigano, Manuela Roelfsema, Peter Schwander, Denis Terron, Santiago Torrioli, Guido Ullom, Joel Zuchniak, Monika Chaoul, Laurence Torrejon, Jose Miguel Brachet, Frank Cobo, Beatriz Durkin, Malcolm Fioretti, Valentina Geoffray, Hervé Jacques, Lionel Kirsch, Christian Cicero, Ugo Lo Adams, Joseph Gloaguen, Emilie Gonzalez, Manuel Hull, Samuel Jellyman, Erik Kiviranta, Mikko Sakai, Kazuhiro Taralli, Emanuele Vaccaro, Davide van der Hulst, Paul van der Kuur, Jan van Leeuwen, Bert-Joost van Loon, Dennis Wakeham, Nicholas Auricchio, Natalia Brienza, Daniele Cheatom, Oscar Franssen, Philippe Julien, Sabine Mer, Isabelle Le Moirin, David Silva, Vitor Todaro, Michela Clerc, Nicolas Coleiro, Alexis Ptak, Andy Puccetti, Simonetta Surace, Christian Abdoelkariem, Shariefa Adami, Christophe Aicardi, Corinne André, Jérôme Angelinelli, Matteo Anvar, Shebli Arnaldi, Luis Horacio Attard, Anthony Audley, Damian Bancel, Florian Banks, Kimberly Bernard, Vivian de Vaate, Jan Geralt Bij Bonino, Donata Bonnamy, Anthony Bonny, Patrick Boreux, Charles Bounab, Ayoub Brigitte, Maïmouna Bruijn, Marcel Brysbaert, Clément Bulgarelli, Andrea Calarco, Simona Camus, Thierry Canourgues, Florent Capobianco, Vito Cardiel, Nicolas Celasco, Edvige Chen, Si Chervenak, James Chiarello, Fabio Clamagirand, Sébastien Coeur-Joly, Odile Corcione, Leonardo Coriat, Mickael Coulet, Anais Courty, Bernard Coynel, Alexandre D'Ai, Antonino Dambrauskas, Eugenio D'anca, Fabio Dauner, Lea De Gerone, Matteo DeNigris, Natalie Dercksen, Johannes de Wit, Martin Dieleman, Pieter DiPirro, Michael Doumayrou, Eric Duband, Lionel Dubbeldam, Luc Dupieux, Michel Dupourqué, Simon Durand, Jean Louis Eckert, Dominique Ferrando, Philippe Barusso, Lorenzo Ferrari Finkbeiner, Fred Fiocchi, Mariateresa Fossecave, Hervé Gabici, Stefano Gallucci, Giovanni Gant, Florent Gao, Jian-Rong Gastaldello, Fabio Genolet, Ludovic Ghizzardi, Simona Giovannini, Elisa Giustini, Margherita Givaudan, Alain Godet, Olivier Gomez, Alicia Gonzalez, Raoul Gozaliasl, Ghassem Grandsire, Laurent Granena, David Gros, Michel Guerin, Corentin Guilhem, Emmanuel Guizzo, Gian Paolo Gu, Liyi Irwin, Kent Jacquey, Christian Janiuk, Agnieszka Jaubert, Jean Jolly, Antoine Jourdan, Thierry Knödlseder, Jürgen König, Ole Korb, Andrew Kreykenbohm, Ingo Lafforgue, David Lan, Radek Larrieu, Maélyss Laudet, Philippe Laurent, Philippe Laurent, Sylvain Laurenza, Monica Cam, Maël Le Lesrel, Jean Ligori, Sebastiano Lorenz, Maximilian Luminari, Alfredo Madsen, Kristin Maisonnave, Océane Marelli, Lorenzo Marty, Wilfried Massida, Zoé Massonet, Didier Maussang, Irwin Alonso, Pablo Eleazar Merino Mesquida, Jean Mineo, Teresa Montinaro, Nicola Murat, David Nagayoshi, Kenichiro Nazé, Yaël Noguès, Loïc Nouals, François Ortega, Cristina Panessa, Francesca Parodi, Luigi Piconcelli, Enrico Pinto, Ciro Porquet, Delphine Prouvé, Thomas Punch, Michael Rioland, Guillaume Riollet, Marc-Olivier Rodriguez, Louis Roig, Anton Roncarelli, Mauro Roucayrol, Lionel Roudil, Gilles de Ocenda, Lander Ruiz Sciortino, Luisa Simonella, Olivier Sordet, Michael Taubenschuss, Ulrich Terrasa, Guilhem Terrier, Régis Ubertini, Pietro Uhlir, Ludek Uslenghi, Michela van Weers, Henk Varisco, Salvatore Varniere, Peggy Volpe, Angela Walmsley, Gavin Wise, Michael Wolnievik, Andreas Woźniak, Grzegorz |
| author_facet | Peille, Philippe Barret, Didier Cucchetti, Edoardo Albouys, Vincent Piro, Luigi Simionescu, Aurora Cappi, Massimo Bellouard, Elise Cénac-Morthé, Céline Daniel, Christophe Pradines, Alice Finoguenov, Alexis Kelley, Richard Mas-Hesse, J. Miguel Paltani, Stéphane Rauw, Gregor Rozanska, Agata Svoboda, Jiri Wilms, Joern Audard, Marc Bozzo, Enrico Costantini, Elisa Dadina, Mauro Dauser, Thomas Decourchelle, Anne Herder, Jan-Willem den Goldwurm, Andrea Jonker, Peter Markowitz, Alex Mendez, Mariano Miniutti, Giovanni Molendi, Silvano Nicastro, Fabrizio Pajot, François Pointecouteau, Etienne Pratt, Gabriel W. Schaye, Joop Vink, Jacco Webb, Natalie Bandler, Simon Barbera, Marco Ceballos, Maria Teresa Charles, Ivan Hartog, Roland den Doriese, W. Bertrand Duval, Jean-Marc Gatti, Flavio Jackson, Brian Kilbourne, Caroline Macculi, Claudio Martin, Sylvain Parot, Yann Porter, Frederick Prêle, Damien Ravera, Laurent Smith, Stephen Soucek, Jan Thibert, Tanguy Tuominen, Eija Acero, Fabio Ettori, Stefano Grosso, Nicolas Kaastra, Jelle Mazzotta, Pasquale Miller, Jon Sciortino, Salvatore Beaumont, Sophie D'Andrea, Matteo de Plaa, Jelle Eckart, Megan Gottardi, Luciano Leutenegger, Maurice Lotti, Simone Molin, Alexei Natalucci, Lorenzo Adil, Muhammad Qazi Argan, Andrea Cavazzuti, Elisabetta Fiorini, Mauro Khosropanah, Pourya Villegas, Eduardo Medinaceli Minervini, Gabriele Perry, James Pinsard, Frederic Raulin, Desi Rigano, Manuela Roelfsema, Peter Schwander, Denis Terron, Santiago Torrioli, Guido Ullom, Joel Zuchniak, Monika Chaoul, Laurence Torrejon, Jose Miguel Brachet, Frank Cobo, Beatriz Durkin, Malcolm Fioretti, Valentina Geoffray, Hervé Jacques, Lionel Kirsch, Christian Cicero, Ugo Lo Adams, Joseph Gloaguen, Emilie Gonzalez, Manuel Hull, Samuel Jellyman, Erik Kiviranta, Mikko Sakai, Kazuhiro Taralli, Emanuele Vaccaro, Davide van der Hulst, Paul van der Kuur, Jan van Leeuwen, Bert-Joost van Loon, Dennis Wakeham, Nicholas Auricchio, Natalia Brienza, Daniele Cheatom, Oscar Franssen, Philippe Julien, Sabine Mer, Isabelle Le Moirin, David Silva, Vitor Todaro, Michela Clerc, Nicolas Coleiro, Alexis Ptak, Andy Puccetti, Simonetta Surace, Christian Abdoelkariem, Shariefa Adami, Christophe Aicardi, Corinne André, Jérôme Angelinelli, Matteo Anvar, Shebli Arnaldi, Luis Horacio Attard, Anthony Audley, Damian Bancel, Florian Banks, Kimberly Bernard, Vivian de Vaate, Jan Geralt Bij Bonino, Donata Bonnamy, Anthony Bonny, Patrick Boreux, Charles Bounab, Ayoub Brigitte, Maïmouna Bruijn, Marcel Brysbaert, Clément Bulgarelli, Andrea Calarco, Simona Camus, Thierry Canourgues, Florent Capobianco, Vito Cardiel, Nicolas Celasco, Edvige Chen, Si Chervenak, James Chiarello, Fabio Clamagirand, Sébastien Coeur-Joly, Odile Corcione, Leonardo Coriat, Mickael Coulet, Anais Courty, Bernard Coynel, Alexandre D'Ai, Antonino Dambrauskas, Eugenio D'anca, Fabio Dauner, Lea De Gerone, Matteo DeNigris, Natalie Dercksen, Johannes de Wit, Martin Dieleman, Pieter DiPirro, Michael Doumayrou, Eric Duband, Lionel Dubbeldam, Luc Dupieux, Michel Dupourqué, Simon Durand, Jean Louis Eckert, Dominique Ferrando, Philippe Barusso, Lorenzo Ferrari Finkbeiner, Fred Fiocchi, Mariateresa Fossecave, Hervé Gabici, Stefano Gallucci, Giovanni Gant, Florent Gao, Jian-Rong Gastaldello, Fabio Genolet, Ludovic Ghizzardi, Simona Giovannini, Elisa Giustini, Margherita Givaudan, Alain Godet, Olivier Gomez, Alicia Gonzalez, Raoul Gozaliasl, Ghassem Grandsire, Laurent Granena, David Gros, Michel Guerin, Corentin Guilhem, Emmanuel Guizzo, Gian Paolo Gu, Liyi Irwin, Kent Jacquey, Christian Janiuk, Agnieszka Jaubert, Jean Jolly, Antoine Jourdan, Thierry Knödlseder, Jürgen König, Ole Korb, Andrew Kreykenbohm, Ingo Lafforgue, David Lan, Radek Larrieu, Maélyss Laudet, Philippe Laurent, Philippe Laurent, Sylvain Laurenza, Monica Cam, Maël Le Lesrel, Jean Ligori, Sebastiano Lorenz, Maximilian Luminari, Alfredo Madsen, Kristin Maisonnave, Océane Marelli, Lorenzo Marty, Wilfried Massida, Zoé Massonet, Didier Maussang, Irwin Alonso, Pablo Eleazar Merino Mesquida, Jean Mineo, Teresa Montinaro, Nicola Murat, David Nagayoshi, Kenichiro Nazé, Yaël Noguès, Loïc Nouals, François Ortega, Cristina Panessa, Francesca Parodi, Luigi Piconcelli, Enrico Pinto, Ciro Porquet, Delphine Prouvé, Thomas Punch, Michael Rioland, Guillaume Riollet, Marc-Olivier Rodriguez, Louis Roig, Anton Roncarelli, Mauro Roucayrol, Lionel Roudil, Gilles de Ocenda, Lander Ruiz Sciortino, Luisa Simonella, Olivier Sordet, Michael Taubenschuss, Ulrich Terrasa, Guilhem Terrier, Régis Ubertini, Pietro Uhlir, Ludek Uslenghi, Michela van Weers, Henk Varisco, Salvatore Varniere, Peggy Volpe, Angela Walmsley, Gavin Wise, Michael Wolnievik, Andreas Woźniak, Grzegorz |
| contents | The Athena mission entered a redefinition phase in July 2022, driven by the imperative to reduce the mission cost at completion for the European Space Agency below an acceptable target, while maintaining the flagship nature of its science return. This notably called for a complete redesign of the X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU) cryogenic architecture towards a simpler active cooling chain. Passive cooling via successive radiative panels at spacecraft level is now used to provide a 50 K thermal environment to an X-IFU owned cryostat. 4.5 K cooling is achieved via a single remote active cryocooler unit, while a multi-stage Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigerator ensures heat lift down to the 50 mK required by the detectors. Amidst these changes, the core concept of the readout chain remains robust, employing Transition Edge Sensor microcalorimeters and a SQUID-based Time-Division Multiplexing scheme. Noteworthy is the introduction of a slower pixel. This enables an increase in the multiplexing factor (from 34 to 48) without compromising the instrument energy resolution, hence keeping significant system margins to the new 4 eV resolution requirement. This allows reducing the number of channels by more than a factor two, and thus the resource demands on the system, while keeping a 4' field of view (compared to 5' before). In this article, we will give an overview of this new architecture, before detailing its anticipated performances. Finally, we will present the new X-IFU schedule, with its short term focus on demonstration activities towards a mission adoption in early 2027. |
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| spellingShingle | The X-ray Integral Field Unit at the end of the Athena reformulation phase Peille, Philippe Barret, Didier Cucchetti, Edoardo Albouys, Vincent Piro, Luigi Simionescu, Aurora Cappi, Massimo Bellouard, Elise Cénac-Morthé, Céline Daniel, Christophe Pradines, Alice Finoguenov, Alexis Kelley, Richard Mas-Hesse, J. Miguel Paltani, Stéphane Rauw, Gregor Rozanska, Agata Svoboda, Jiri Wilms, Joern Audard, Marc Bozzo, Enrico Costantini, Elisa Dadina, Mauro Dauser, Thomas Decourchelle, Anne Herder, Jan-Willem den Goldwurm, Andrea Jonker, Peter Markowitz, Alex Mendez, Mariano Miniutti, Giovanni Molendi, Silvano Nicastro, Fabrizio Pajot, François Pointecouteau, Etienne Pratt, Gabriel W. Schaye, Joop Vink, Jacco Webb, Natalie Bandler, Simon Barbera, Marco Ceballos, Maria Teresa Charles, Ivan Hartog, Roland den Doriese, W. Bertrand Duval, Jean-Marc Gatti, Flavio Jackson, Brian Kilbourne, Caroline Macculi, Claudio Martin, Sylvain Parot, Yann Porter, Frederick Prêle, Damien Ravera, Laurent Smith, Stephen Soucek, Jan Thibert, Tanguy Tuominen, Eija Acero, Fabio Ettori, Stefano Grosso, Nicolas Kaastra, Jelle Mazzotta, Pasquale Miller, Jon Sciortino, Salvatore Beaumont, Sophie D'Andrea, Matteo de Plaa, Jelle Eckart, Megan Gottardi, Luciano Leutenegger, Maurice Lotti, Simone Molin, Alexei Natalucci, Lorenzo Adil, Muhammad Qazi Argan, Andrea Cavazzuti, Elisabetta Fiorini, Mauro Khosropanah, Pourya Villegas, Eduardo Medinaceli Minervini, Gabriele Perry, James Pinsard, Frederic Raulin, Desi Rigano, Manuela Roelfsema, Peter Schwander, Denis Terron, Santiago Torrioli, Guido Ullom, Joel Zuchniak, Monika Chaoul, Laurence Torrejon, Jose Miguel Brachet, Frank Cobo, Beatriz Durkin, Malcolm Fioretti, Valentina Geoffray, Hervé Jacques, Lionel Kirsch, Christian Cicero, Ugo Lo Adams, Joseph Gloaguen, Emilie Gonzalez, Manuel Hull, Samuel Jellyman, Erik Kiviranta, Mikko Sakai, Kazuhiro Taralli, Emanuele Vaccaro, Davide van der Hulst, Paul van der Kuur, Jan van Leeuwen, Bert-Joost van Loon, Dennis Wakeham, Nicholas Auricchio, Natalia Brienza, Daniele Cheatom, Oscar Franssen, Philippe Julien, Sabine Mer, Isabelle Le Moirin, David Silva, Vitor Todaro, Michela Clerc, Nicolas Coleiro, Alexis Ptak, Andy Puccetti, Simonetta Surace, Christian Abdoelkariem, Shariefa Adami, Christophe Aicardi, Corinne André, Jérôme Angelinelli, Matteo Anvar, Shebli Arnaldi, Luis Horacio Attard, Anthony Audley, Damian Bancel, Florian Banks, Kimberly Bernard, Vivian de Vaate, Jan Geralt Bij Bonino, Donata Bonnamy, Anthony Bonny, Patrick Boreux, Charles Bounab, Ayoub Brigitte, Maïmouna Bruijn, Marcel Brysbaert, Clément Bulgarelli, Andrea Calarco, Simona Camus, Thierry Canourgues, Florent Capobianco, Vito Cardiel, Nicolas Celasco, Edvige Chen, Si Chervenak, James Chiarello, Fabio Clamagirand, Sébastien Coeur-Joly, Odile Corcione, Leonardo Coriat, Mickael Coulet, Anais Courty, Bernard Coynel, Alexandre D'Ai, Antonino Dambrauskas, Eugenio D'anca, Fabio Dauner, Lea De Gerone, Matteo DeNigris, Natalie Dercksen, Johannes de Wit, Martin Dieleman, Pieter DiPirro, Michael Doumayrou, Eric Duband, Lionel Dubbeldam, Luc Dupieux, Michel Dupourqué, Simon Durand, Jean Louis Eckert, Dominique Ferrando, Philippe Barusso, Lorenzo Ferrari Finkbeiner, Fred Fiocchi, Mariateresa Fossecave, Hervé Gabici, Stefano Gallucci, Giovanni Gant, Florent Gao, Jian-Rong Gastaldello, Fabio Genolet, Ludovic Ghizzardi, Simona Giovannini, Elisa Giustini, Margherita Givaudan, Alain Godet, Olivier Gomez, Alicia Gonzalez, Raoul Gozaliasl, Ghassem Grandsire, Laurent Granena, David Gros, Michel Guerin, Corentin Guilhem, Emmanuel Guizzo, Gian Paolo Gu, Liyi Irwin, Kent Jacquey, Christian Janiuk, Agnieszka Jaubert, Jean Jolly, Antoine Jourdan, Thierry Knödlseder, Jürgen König, Ole Korb, Andrew Kreykenbohm, Ingo Lafforgue, David Lan, Radek Larrieu, Maélyss Laudet, Philippe Laurent, Philippe Laurent, Sylvain Laurenza, Monica Cam, Maël Le Lesrel, Jean Ligori, Sebastiano Lorenz, Maximilian Luminari, Alfredo Madsen, Kristin Maisonnave, Océane Marelli, Lorenzo Marty, Wilfried Massida, Zoé Massonet, Didier Maussang, Irwin Alonso, Pablo Eleazar Merino Mesquida, Jean Mineo, Teresa Montinaro, Nicola Murat, David Nagayoshi, Kenichiro Nazé, Yaël Noguès, Loïc Nouals, François Ortega, Cristina Panessa, Francesca Parodi, Luigi Piconcelli, Enrico Pinto, Ciro Porquet, Delphine Prouvé, Thomas Punch, Michael Rioland, Guillaume Riollet, Marc-Olivier Rodriguez, Louis Roig, Anton Roncarelli, Mauro Roucayrol, Lionel Roudil, Gilles de Ocenda, Lander Ruiz Sciortino, Luisa Simonella, Olivier Sordet, Michael Taubenschuss, Ulrich Terrasa, Guilhem Terrier, Régis Ubertini, Pietro Uhlir, Ludek Uslenghi, Michela van Weers, Henk Varisco, Salvatore Varniere, Peggy Volpe, Angela Walmsley, Gavin Wise, Michael Wolnievik, Andreas Woźniak, Grzegorz Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Solar and Stellar Astrophysics The Athena mission entered a redefinition phase in July 2022, driven by the imperative to reduce the mission cost at completion for the European Space Agency below an acceptable target, while maintaining the flagship nature of its science return. This notably called for a complete redesign of the X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU) cryogenic architecture towards a simpler active cooling chain. Passive cooling via successive radiative panels at spacecraft level is now used to provide a 50 K thermal environment to an X-IFU owned cryostat. 4.5 K cooling is achieved via a single remote active cryocooler unit, while a multi-stage Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigerator ensures heat lift down to the 50 mK required by the detectors. Amidst these changes, the core concept of the readout chain remains robust, employing Transition Edge Sensor microcalorimeters and a SQUID-based Time-Division Multiplexing scheme. Noteworthy is the introduction of a slower pixel. This enables an increase in the multiplexing factor (from 34 to 48) without compromising the instrument energy resolution, hence keeping significant system margins to the new 4 eV resolution requirement. This allows reducing the number of channels by more than a factor two, and thus the resource demands on the system, while keeping a 4' field of view (compared to 5' before). In this article, we will give an overview of this new architecture, before detailing its anticipated performances. Finally, we will present the new X-IFU schedule, with its short term focus on demonstration activities towards a mission adoption in early 2027. |
| title | The X-ray Integral Field Unit at the end of the Athena reformulation phase |
| topic | Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Solar and Stellar Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.10866 |