Philippe Peille, Didier Barret, Edoardo Cucchetti, Vincent Albouys, Luigi Piro, Aurora Simionescu, Massimo Cappi, Elise Bellouard, Céline Cénac-Morthé, Christophe Daniel, Alice Pradines, Alexis Finoguenov, Richard Kelley, J. Miguel Mas-Hesse, Stéphane Paltani, Gregor Rauw, Agata Rozanska, Jiri Svoboda, Joern Wilms, Marc Audard, Enrico Bozzo, Elisa Costantini, Mauro Dadina, Thomas Dauser, Anne Decourchelle, Jan-Willem den Herder, Andrea Goldwurm, Peter Jonker, Alex Markowitz, Mariano Mendez, Giovanni Miniutti, Silvano Molendi, Fabrizio Nicastro, François Pajot, Etienne Pointecouteau, Gabriel W. Pratt, Joop Schaye, Jacco Vink, Natalie Webb, Simon Bandler, Marco Barbera, Maria Teresa Ceballos, Ivan Charles, Roland den Hartog, W. Bertrand Doriese, Jean-Marc Duval, Flavio Gatti, Brian Jackson, Caroline Kilbourne, Claudio Macculi, Sylvain Martin, Yann Parot, Frederick Porter, Damien Prêle, Laurent Ravera, Stephen Smith, Jan Soucek, Tanguy Thibert, Eija Tuominen, Fabio Acero, Stefano Ettori, Nicolas Grosso, Jelle Kaastra, Pasquale Mazzotta, Jon Miller, Salvatore Sciortino, Sophie Beaumont, Matteo D’Andrea, Jelle de Plaa, Megan Eckart, Luciano Gottardi, Maurice Leutenegger, Simone Lotti, Alexei Molin, Lorenzo Natalucci, Muhammad Qazi Adil, Andrea Argan, Elisabetta Cavazzuti, Mauro Fiorini, Pourya Khosropanah, Eduardo Medinaceli Villegas, Gabriele Minervini, James Perry, Frederic Pinsard, Desi Raulin, Manuela Rigano, Peter Roelfsema, Denis Schwander, Santiago Terron, Guido Torrioli, Joel Ullom, Monika Zuchniak, Laurence Chaoul, Jose Miguel Torrejon, Frank Brachet, Beatriz Cobo, Malcolm Durkin, Valentina Fioretti, Hervé Geoffray, Lionel Jacques, Christian Kirsch, Ugo Lo Cicero, Joseph Adams, Emilie Gloaguen, Manuel Gonzalez, Samuel Hull, Erik Jellyman, Mikko Kiviranta, Kazuhiro Sakai, Emanuele Taralli, Davide Vaccaro, Paul van der Hulst, Jan van der Kuur, Bert-Joost van Leeuwen, Dennis van Loon, Nicholas Wakeham, Natalia Auricchio, Daniele Brienza, Oscar Cheatom, Philippe Franssen, Sabine Julien, Isabelle Le Mer, David Moirin, Vitor Silva, Michela Todaro, Nicolas Clerc, Alexis Coleiro, Andy Ptak, Simonetta Puccetti, Christian Surace, Shariefa Abdoelkariem, Christophe Adami, Corinne Aicardi, Jérôme André, Matteo Angelinelli, Shebli Anvar, Luis Horacio Arnaldi, Anthony Attard, Damian Audley, Florian Bancel, Kimberly Banks, Vivian Bernard, Jan Geralt Bij de Vaate, Donata Bonino, Anthony Bonnamy, Patrick Bonny, Charles Boreux, Ayoub Bounab, Maïmouna Brigitte, Marcel Bruijn, Clément Brysbaert, Andrea Bulgarelli, Simona Calarco, Thierry Camus, Florent Canourgues, Vito Capobianco, Nicolas Cardiel, Edvige Celasco, Si Chen, James Chervenak, Fabio Chiarello, Sébastien Clamagirand, Odile Coeur-Joly, Leonardo Corcione, Mickael Coriat, Anais Coulet, Bernard Courty, Alexandre Coynel, Antonino D’Ai, Eugenio Dambrauskas, Fabio D’anca, Lea Dauner, Matteo De Gerone, Natalie DeNigris, Johannes Dercksen, Martin de Wit, Pieter Dieleman, Michael DiPirro, Eric Doumayrou, Lionel Duband, Luc Dubbeldam, Michel Dupieux, Simon Dupourqué, Jean Louis Durand, Dominique Eckert, Philippe Ferrando, Lorenzo Ferrari Barusso, Fred Finkbeiner, Mariateresa Fiocchi, Hervé Fossecave, Stefano Gabici, Giovanni Gallucci, Florent Gant, Jian-Rong Gao, Fabio Gastaldello, Ludovic Genolet, Simona Ghizzardi, Elisa Giovannini, Margherita Giustini, Alain Givaudan, Olivier Godet, Alicia Gomez, Raoul Gonzalez, Ghassem Gozaliasl, Laurent Grandsire, David Granena, Michel Gros, Corentin Guerin, Emmanuel Guilhem, Gian Paolo Guizzo, Liyi Gu, Kent Irwin, Christian Jacquey, Agnieszka Janiuk, Jean Jaubert, Antoine Jolly, Thierry Jourdan, Jürgen Knödlseder, Ole König, Andrew Korb, Ingo Kreykenbohm, David Lafforgue, Radek Lan, Maélyss Larrieu, Philippe Laudet, Philippe Laurent, Sylvain Laurent, Monica Laurenza, Maël Le Cam, Jean Lesrel, Sebastiano Ligori, Maximilian Lorenz, Alfredo Luminari, Kristin Madsen, Océane Maisonnave, Lorenzo Marelli, Wilfried Marty, Zoé Massida, Didier Massonet, Irwin Maussang, Pablo Eleazar Merino Alonso, Jean Mesquida, Teresa Mineo, Nicola Montinaro, David Murat, Kenichiro Nagayoshi, Yaël Nazé, Loïc Noguès, François Nouals, Cristina Ortega, Francesca Panessa, Luigi Parodi, Enrico Piconcelli, Ciro Pinto, Delphine Porquet, Thomas Prouvé, Michael Punch, Guillaume Rioland, Marc-Olivier Riollet, Louis Rodriguez, Anton Roig, Mauro Roncarelli, Lionel Roucayrol, Gilles Roudil, Lander Ruiz de Ocenda, Luisa Sciortino, Olivier Simonella, Michael Sordet, Ulrich Taubenschuss, Guilhem Terrasa, Régis Terrier, Pietro Ubertini, Ludek Uhlir, Michela Uslenghi, Henk van Weers, Salvatore Varisco, Peggy Varniere, Angela Volpe, Gavin Walmsley, Michael Wise, Andreas Wolnievik, Grzegorz Woźniak
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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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Many new instruments for observing astronomical objects at a variety of wavelengths have been and are continually being developed. Furthermore, a vast amount of effort is being put into the development of new techniques for data analysis in order to cope with great streams of data collected by these instruments.
Experimental Astronomy acts as a medium for the publication of papers of contemporary scientific interest on astrophysical instrumentation and methods necessary for the conduct of astronomy at all wavelength fields.
Experimental Astronomy publishes full-length articles, research letters and reviews on developments in detection techniques, instruments, and data analysis and image processing techniques. Occasional special issues are published, giving an in-depth presentation of the instrumentation and/or analysis connected with specific projects, such as satellite experiments or ground-based telescopes, or of specialized techniques.