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1. The Wide Field Monitor (WFM) of the China-Europe eXTP (enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry) mission

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Hernanz, Margarita, Feroci, Marco, Evangelista, Yuri, Meuris, Aline, Schanne, Stéphane, Zampa, Gianluigi, Tenzer, Chris, Bayer, Jörg, Nowosielski, Witold, Michalska, Malgorzata, Kalemci, Emrah, Sungur, Müberra, Brandt, Søren, Kuvvetli, Irfan, Franco, Daniel Alvarez, Carmona, Alex, Gálvez, José-Luis, Patruno, Alessandro, Zand, Jean in' t, Zwart, Frans, Santangelo, Andrea, Bozzo, Enrico, Zhang, Shuang-Nan, Lu, Fangjun, Xu, Yupeng, Campana, Riccardo, Del Monte, Ettore, Ceraudo, Francesco, Nuti, Alessio, Della Casa, Giovanni, Argan, Andrea, Minervini, Gabriele, Antonelli, Matias, Bonvicini, Valter, Boezio, Mirko, Cirrincione, Daniela, Munini, Riccardo, Rachevski, Alexandre, Vacchi, Andrea, Zampa, Nicola, Rashevskaya, Irina, Ficorella, Francesco, Picciotto, Antonino, Zorzi, Nicola, Baudin, David, Bouyjou, Florent, Gevin, Olivier, Limousin, Olivier, Hedderman, Paul, Pliego, Samuel, Xiong, Hao, de la Rie, Rob, Laubert, Phillip, Aitink-Kroes, Gabby, Kuiper, Lucien, Orleanski, Piotr, Skup, Konrad, Tcherniak, Denis, Turhan, Onur, Bozkurt, Ayhan, and Onat, Ahmet

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Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
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The eXTP mission is a major project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), with a large involvement of Europe. Its scientific payload includes four instruments: SFA, PFA, LAD and WFM. They offer an unprecedented simultaneous wide-band Xray timing and polarimetry sensitivity. A large European consortium is contributing to the eXTP study, both for the science and the instrumentation. Europe is expected to provide two of the four instruments: LAD and WFM; the LAD is led by Italy and the WFM by Spain. The WFM for eXTP is based on the design originally proposed for the LOFT ESA M3 mission, that underwent a Phase A feasibility study. It will be a wide field of view X-ray monitor instrument working in the 2-50 keV energy range, achieved with large-area Silicon Drift Detectors (SDDs), similar to the ones used for the LAD but with better spatial resolution. The WFM will consist of 3 pairs of coded mask cameras with a total combined field of view (FoV) of 90x180 degrees at zero response and a source localisation accuracy of ~1 arc min. The main goal of the WFM is to provide triggers for the target of opportunity observations of the SFA, PFA and LAD, in order to perform the core science programme, dedicated to the study of matter under extreme conditions of density, gravity and magnetism. In addition, the unprecedented combination of large field of view and imaging capability, down to 2 keV, of the WFM will allow eXTP to make important discoveries of the variable and transient X-ray sky, and provide X-ray coverage of a broad range of astrophysical objects covered under 'observatory science', such as gamma-ray bursts, fast radio bursts, gravitational wave electromagnetic counterparts. In this paper we provide an overview of the WFM instrument, explaining its design, configuration, and anticipated performance., Comment: 15 pages, 13 figures, Proceedings of SPIE 13093, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray; Proceedings Volume 13093, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray; 130931Y (2024); doi: 10.1117/12.3020020

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2024
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2. The Athena X-ray Integral Field Unit: a consolidated design for the system requirement review of the preliminary definition phase

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Barret, Didier, Albouys, Vincent, Herder, Jan-Willem den, Piro, Luigi, Cappi, Massimo, Huovelin, Juhani, Kelley, Richard, Mas-Hesse, J. Miguel, Paltani, Stéphane, Rauw, Gregor, Rozanska, Agata, Svoboda, Jiri, Wilms, Joern, Yamasaki, Noriko, Audard, Marc, Bandler, Simon, Barbera, Marco, Barcons, Xavier, Bozzo, Enrico, Ceballos, Maria Teresa, Charles, Ivan, Costantini, Elisa, Dauser, Thomas, Decourchelle, Anne, Duband, Lionel, Duval, Jean-Marc, Fiore, Fabrizio, Gatti, Flavio, Goldwurm, Andrea, Hartog, Roland den, Jackson, Brian, Jonker, Peter, Kilbourne, Caroline, Korpela, Seppo, Macculi, Claudio, Mendez, Mariano, Mitsuda, Kazuhisa, Molendi, Silvano, Pajot, François, Pointecouteau, Etienne, Porter, Frederick, Pratt, Gabriel W., Prêle, Damien, Ravera, Laurent, Sato, Kosuke, Schaye, Joop, Shinozaki, Keisuke, Skup, Konrad, Soucek, Jan, Thibert, Tanguy, Vink, Jacco, Webb, Natalie, Chaoul, Laurence, Raulin, Desi, Simionescu, Aurora, Torrejon, Jose Miguel, Acero, Fabio, Branduardi-Raymont, Graziella, Ettori, Stefano, Finoguenov, Alexis, Grosso, Nicolas, Kaastra, Jelle, Mazzotta, Pasquale, Miller, Jon, Miniutti, Giovanni, Nicastro, Fabrizio, Sciortino, Salvatore, Yamaguchi, Hiroya, Beaumont, Sophie, Cucchetti, Edoardo, D'Andrea, Matteo, Eckart, Megan, Ferrando, Philippe, Kammoun, Elias, Lotti, Simone, Mesnager, Jean-Michel, Natalucci, Lorenzo, Peille, Philippe, de Plaa, Jelle, Ardellier, Florence, Argan, Andrea, Bellouard, Elise, Carron, Jérôme, Cavazzuti, Elisabetta, Fiorini, Mauro, Khosropanah, Pourya, Martin, Sylvain, Perry, James, Pinsard, Frederic, Pradines, Alice, Rigano, Manuela, Roelfsema, Peter, Schwander, Denis, Torrioli, Guido, Ullom, Joel, Vera, Isabel, Villegas, Eduardo Medinaceli, Zuchniak, Monika, Brachet, Frank, Cicero, Ugo Lo, Doriese, William, Durkin, Malcom, Fioretti, Valentina, Geoffray, Hervé, Jacques, Lionel, Kirsch, Christian, Smith, Stephen, Adams, Joseph, Gloaguen, Emilie, Hoogeveen, Ruud, van der Hulst, Paul, Kiviranta, Mikko, van der Kuur, Jan, Ledot, Aurélien, van Leeuwen, Bert-Joost, van Loon, Dennis, Lyautey, Bertrand, Parot, Yann, Sakai, Kazuhiro, van Weers, Henk, Abdoelkariem, Shariefa, Adam, Thomas, Adami, Christophe, Aicardi, Corinne, Akamatsu, Hiroki, Alonso, Pablo Eleazar Merino, Amato, Roberta, André, Jérôme, Angelinelli, Matteo, Anon-Cancela, Manuel, Anvar, Shebli, Atienza, Ricardo, Attard, Anthony, Auricchio, Natalia, Balado, Ana, Bancel, Florian, Barusso, Lorenzo Ferrari, Bernard, Vivian, Berrocal, Alicia, Blin, Sylvie, Bonino, Donata, Bonnet, François, Bonny, Patrick, Boorman, Peter, Boreux, Charles, Bounab, Ayoub, Boutelier, Martin, Boyce, Kevin, Brienza, Daniele, Bruijn, Marcel, Bulgarelli, Andrea, Calarco, Simona, Callanan, Paul, Camus, Thierry, Canourgues, Florent, Capobianco, Vito, Cardiel, Nicolas, Castellani, Florent, Cheatom, Oscar, Chervenak, James, Chiarello, Fabio, Clerc, Nicolas, Clerc, Laurent, Cobo, Beatriz, Coeur-Joly, Odile, Coleiro, Alexis, Colonges, Stéphane, Corcione, Leonardo, Coriat, Mickael, Coynel, Alexandre, Cuttaia, Francesco, D'Ai, Antonino, D'anca, Fabio, Dadina, Mauro, Daniel, Christophe, DeNigris, Natalie, Dercksen, Johannes, DiPirro, Michael, Doumayrou, Eric, Dubbeldam, Luc, Dupieux, Michel, Dupourqué, Simon, Durand, Jean Louis, Eckert, Dominique, Eiriz, Valvanera, Ercolani, Eric, Etcheverry, Christophe, Finkbeiner, Fred, Fiocchi, Mariateresa, Fossecave, Hervé, Franssen, Philippe, Frericks, Martin, Gabici, Stefano, Gant, Florent, Gao, Jian-Rong, Gastaldello, Fabio, Genolet, Ludovic, Ghizzardi, Simona, Gil, M Angeles Alcacera, Giovannini, Elisa, Godet, Olivier, Gomez-Elvira, Javier, Gonzalez, Manuel, Gonzalez, Raoul, Gottardi, Luciano, Granat, Dolorès, Gros, Michel, Guignard, Nicolas, Hieltjes, Paul, Hurtado, Adolfo Jesus, Irwin, Kent, Jacquey, Christian, Janiuk, Agnieszka, Jaubert, Jean, Jiménez, Maria, Jolly, Antoine, Jourdan, Thierry, Julien, Sabine, Kedziora, Bartosz, Korb, Andrew, Kreykenbohm, Ingo, König, Ole, Langer, Mathieu, Laudet, Philippe, Laurent, Philippe, Laurenza, Monica, Lesrel, Jean, Ligori, Sebastiano, Lorenz, Maximilian, Luminari, Alfredo, Maffei, Bruno, Maisonnave, Océane, Marelli, Lorenzo, Massonet, Didier, Maussang, Irwin, Melchor, Alejandro Gonzalo, Mer, Isabelle Le, Michalski, Lea, Millerioux, Jean-Pierre, Mineo, Teresa, Minervini, Gabriele, Molin, Alexeï, Monestes, David, Montinaro, Nicola, Mot, Baptiste, Murat, David, Nagayoshi, Kenichiro, Nazé, Yaël, Noguès, Loïc, Pailot, Damien, Panessa, Francesca, Parodi, Luigi, Petit, Pascal, Piconcelli, Enrico, Pinto, Ciro, Plaza, Jose Miguel Encinas, Poyatos, David, Prouvé, Thomas, Ptak, Andy, Puccetti, Simonetta, Puccio, Elena, Ramon, Pascale, Reina, Manuel, Rioland, Guillaume, Rodriguez, Louis, Roig, Anton, Rollet, Bertrand, Roncarelli, Mauro, Roudil, Gilles, Rudnicki, Tomasz, Sanisidro, Julien, Sciortino, Luisa, Silva, Vitor, Sordet, Michael, Soto-Aguilar, Javier, Spizzi, Pierre, Surace, Christian, Sánchez, Miguel Fernández, Taralli, Emanuele, Terrasa, Guilhem, Terrier, Régis, Todaro, Michela, Ubertini, Pietro, Uslenghi, Michela, de Vaate, Jan Geralt Bij, Vaccaro, Davide, Varisco, Salvatore, Varnière, Peggy, Vibert, Laurent, Vidriales, María, Villa, Fabrizio, Vodopivec, Boris Martin, Volpe, Angela, de Vries, Cor, Wakeham, Nicholas, Walmsley, Gavin, Wise, Michael, de Wit, Martin, and Woźniak, Grzegorz

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Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
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The Athena X-ray Integral Unit (X-IFU) is the high resolution X-ray spectrometer, studied since 2015 for flying in the mid-30s on the Athena space X-ray Observatory, a versatile observatory designed to address the Hot and Energetic Universe science theme, selected in November 2013 by the Survey Science Committee. Based on a large format array of Transition Edge Sensors (TES), it aims to provide spatially resolved X-ray spectroscopy, with a spectral resolution of 2.5 eV (up to 7 keV) over an hexagonal field of view of 5 arc minutes (equivalent diameter). The X-IFU entered its System Requirement Review (SRR) in June 2022, at about the same time when ESA called for an overall X-IFU redesign (including the X-IFU cryostat and the cooling chain), due to an unanticipated cost overrun of Athena. In this paper, after illustrating the breakthrough capabilities of the X-IFU, we describe the instrument as presented at its SRR, browsing through all the subsystems and associated requirements. We then show the instrument budgets, with a particular emphasis on the anticipated budgets of some of its key performance parameters. Finally we briefly discuss on the ongoing key technology demonstration activities, the calibration and the activities foreseen in the X-IFU Instrument Science Center, and touch on communication and outreach activities, the consortium organisation, and finally on the life cycle assessment of X-IFU aiming at minimising the environmental footprint, associated with the development of the instrument. Thanks to the studies conducted so far on X-IFU, it is expected that along the design-to-cost exercise requested by ESA, the X-IFU will maintain flagship capabilities in spatially resolved high resolution X-ray spectroscopy, enabling most of the original X-IFU related scientific objectives of the Athena mission to be retained. (abridged)., Comment: 48 pages, 29 figures, Accepted for publication in Experimental Astronomy with minor editing

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2022
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3. Ariel: Enabling planetary science across light-years

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Tinetti, Giovanna, Eccleston, Paul, Haswell, Carole, Lagage, Pierre-Olivier, Leconte, Jérémy, Lüftinger, Theresa, Micela, Giusi, Min, Michel, Pilbratt, Göran, Puig, Ludovic, Swain, Mark, Testi, Leonardo, Turrini, Diego, Vandenbussche, Bart, Osorio, Maria Rosa Zapatero, Aret, Anna, Beaulieu, Jean-Philippe, Buchhave, Lars, Ferus, Martin, Griffin, Matt, Guedel, Manuel, Hartogh, Paul, Machado, Pedro, Malaguti, Giuseppe, Pallé, Enric, Rataj, Mirek, Ray, Tom, Ribas, Ignasi, Szabó, Robert, Tan, Jonathan, Werner, Stephanie, Ratti, Francesco, Scharmberg, Carsten, Salvignol, Jean-Christophe, Boudin, Nathalie, Halain, Jean-Philippe, Haag, Martin, Crouzet, Pierre-Elie, Kohley, Ralf, Symonds, Kate, Renk, Florian, Caldwell, Andrew, Abreu, Manuel, Alonso, Gustavo, Amiaux, Jerome, Berthé, Michel, Bishop, Georgia, Bowles, Neil, Carmona, Manuel, Coffey, Deirdre, Colomé, Josep, Crook, Martin, Désjonqueres, Lucile, Díaz, José J., Drummond, Rachel, Focardi, Mauro, Gómez, Jose M., Holmes, Warren, Krijger, Matthijs, Kovacs, Zsolt, Hunt, Tom, Machado, Richardo, Morgante, Gianluca, Ollivier, Marc, Ottensamer, Roland, Pace, Emanuele, Pagano, Teresa, Pascale, Enzo, Pearson, Chris, Pedersen, Søren Møller, Pniel, Moshe, Roose, Stéphane, Savini, Giorgio, Stamper, Richard, Szirovicza, Peter, Szoke, Janos, Tosh, Ian, Vilardell, Francesc, Barstow, Joanna, Borsato, Luca, Casewell, Sarah, Changeat, Quentin, Charnay, Benjamin, Civiš, Svatopluk, Foresto, Vincent Coudé du, Coustenis, Athena, Cowan, Nicolas, Danielski, Camilla, Demangeon, Olivier, Drossart, Pierre, Edwards, Billy N., Gilli, Gabriella, Encrenaz, Therese, Kiss, Csaba, Kokori, Anastasia, Ikoma, Masahiro, Morales, Juan Carlos, Mendonça, João, Moneti, Andrea, Mugnai, Lorenzo, Muñoz, Antonio García, Helled, Ravit, Kama, Mihkel, Miguel, Yamila, Nikolaou, Nikos, Pagano, Isabella, Panic, Olja, Rengel, Miriam, Rickman, Hans, Rocchetto, Marco, Sarkar, Subhajit, Selsis, Franck, Tennyson, Jonathan, Tsiaras, Angelos, Venot, Olivia, Vida, Krisztián, Waldmann, Ingo P., Yurchenko, Sergey, Szabó, Gyula, Zellem, Rob, Al-Refaie, Ahmed, Alvarez, Javier Perez, Anisman, Lara, Arhancet, Axel, Ateca, Jaume, Baeyens, Robin, Barnes, John R., Bell, Taylor, Benatti, Serena, Biazzo, Katia, Błęcka, Maria, Bonomo, Aldo Stefano, Bosch, José, Bossini, Diego, Bourgalais, Jeremy, Brienza, Daniele, Brucalassi, Anna, Bruno, Giovanni, Caines, Hamish, Calcutt, Simon, Campante, Tiago, Canestrari, Rodolfo, Cann, Nick, Casali, Giada, Casas, Albert, Cassone, Giuseppe, Cara, Christophe, Carone, Ludmila, Carrasco, Nathalie, Chioetto, Paolo, Cortecchia, Fausto, Czupalla, Markus, Chubb, Katy L., Ciaravella, Angela, Claret, Antonio, Claudi, Riccardo, Codella, Claudio, Comas, Maya Garcia, Cracchiolo, Gianluca, Cubillos, Patricio, Da Peppo, Vania, Decin, Leen, Dejabrun, Clemence, Delgado-Mena, Elisa, Di Giorgio, Anna, Diolaiti, Emiliano, Dorn, Caroline, Doublier, Vanessa, Doumayrou, Eric, Dransfield, Georgina, Dumaye, Luc, Dunford, Emma, Escobar, Antonio Jimenez, Van Eylen, Vincent, Farina, Maria, Fedele, Davide, Fernández, Alejandro, Fleury, Benjamin, Fonte, Sergio, Fontignie, Jean, Fossati, Luca, Funke, Bernd, Galy, Camille, Garai, Zoltán, García, Andrés, García-Rigo, Alberto, Garufi, Antonio, Sacco, Giuseppe Germano, Giacobbe, Paolo, Gómez, Alejandro, Gonzalez, Arturo, Gonzalez-Galindo, Francisco, Grassi, Davide, Griffith, Caitlin, Guarcello, Mario Giuseppe, Goujon, Audrey, Gressier, Amélie, Grzegorczyk, Aleksandra, Guillot, Tristan, Guilluy, Gloria, Hargrave, Peter, Hellin, Marie-Laure, Herrero, Enrique, Hills, Matt, Horeau, Benoit, Ito, Yuichi, Jessen, Niels Christian, Kabath, Petr, Kálmán, Szilárd, Kawashima, Yui, Kimura, Tadahiro, Knížek, Antonín, Kreidberg, Laura, Kruid, Ronald, Kruijssen, Diederik J. M., Kubelík, Petr, Lara, Luisa, Lebonnois, Sebastien, Lee, David, Lefevre, Maxence, Lichtenberg, Tim, Locci, Daniele, Lombini, Matteo, Lopez, Alejandro Sanchez, Lorenzani, Andrea, MacDonald, Ryan, Magrini, Laura, Maldonado, Jesus, Marcq, Emmanuel, Migliorini, Alessandra, Modirrousta-Galian, Darius, Molaverdikhani, Karan, Molinari, Sergio, Mollière, Paul, Moreau, Vincent, Morello, Giuseppe, Morinaud, Gilles, Morvan, Mario, Moses, Julianne I., Mouzali, Salima, Nakhjiri, Nariman, Naponiello, Luca, Narita, Norio, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Nikolaou, Athanasia, Noce, Vladimiro, Oliva, Fabrizio, Palladino, Pietro, Papageorgiou, Andreas, Parmentier, Vivien, Peres, Giovanni, Pérez, Javier, Perez-Hoyos, Santiago, Perger, Manuel, Pestellini, Cesare Cecchi, Petralia, Antonino, Philippon, Anne, Piccialli, Arianna, Pignatari, Marco, Piotto, Giampaolo, Podio, Linda, Polenta, Gianluca, Preti, Giampaolo, Pribulla, Theodor, Puertas, Manuel Lopez, Rainer, Monica, Reess, Jean-Michel, Rimmer, Paul, Robert, Séverine, Rosich, Albert, Rossi, Loic, Rust, Duncan, Saleh, Ayman, Sanna, Nicoletta, Schisano, Eugenio, Schreiber, Laura, Schwartz, Victor, Scippa, Antonio, Seli, Bálint, Shibata, Sho, Simpson, Caroline, Shorttle, Oliver, Skaf, N., Skup, Konrad, Sobiecki, Mateusz, Sousa, Sergio, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Šponer, Judit, Steiger, Lukas, Tanga, Paolo, Tackley, Paul, Taylor, Jake, Tecza, Matthias, Terenzi, Luca, Tremblin, Pascal, Tozzi, Andrea, Triaud, Amaury, Trompet, Loïc, Tsai, Shang-Min, Tsantaki, Maria, Valencia, Diana, Vandaele, Ann Carine, Van der Swaelmen, Mathieu, Vardan, Adibekyan, Vasisht, Gautam, Vazan, Allona, Del Vecchio, Ciro, Waltham, Dave, Wawer, Piotr, Widemann, Thomas, Wolkenberg, Paulina, Yip, Gordon Hou, Yung, Yuk, Zilinskas, Mantas, Zingales, Tiziano, and Zuppella, Paola

Subjects
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
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Ariel, the Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey, was adopted as the fourth medium-class mission in ESA's Cosmic Vision programme to be launched in 2029. During its 4-year mission, Ariel will study what exoplanets are made of, how they formed and how they evolve, by surveying a diverse sample of about 1000 extrasolar planets, simultaneously in visible and infrared wavelengths. It is the first mission dedicated to measuring the chemical composition and thermal structures of hundreds of transiting exoplanets, enabling planetary science far beyond the boundaries of the Solar System. The payload consists of an off-axis Cassegrain telescope (primary mirror 1100 mm x 730 mm ellipse) and two separate instruments (FGS and AIRS) covering simultaneously 0.5-7.8 micron spectral range. The satellite is best placed into an L2 orbit to maximise the thermal stability and the field of regard. The payload module is passively cooled via a series of V-Groove radiators; the detectors for the AIRS are the only items that require active cooling via an active Ne JT cooler. The Ariel payload is developed by a consortium of more than 50 institutes from 16 ESA countries, which include the UK, France, Italy, Belgium, Poland, Spain, Austria, Denmark, Ireland, Portugal, Czech Republic, Hungary, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Estonia, and a NASA contribution., Comment: Ariel Definition Study Report, 147 pages. Reviewed by ESA Science Advisory Structure in November 2020. Original document available at: https://www.cosmos.esa.int/documents/1783156/3267291/Ariel_RedBook_Nov2020.pdf/

Published
2021

4. The Large Area Detector onboard the eXTP mission

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Feroci, Marco, Ahangarianabhari, Mahdi, Ambrosi, Giovanni, Ambrosino, Filippo, Argan, Andrea, Barbera, Marco, Bayer, Joerg, Bellutti, Pierluigi, Bertucci, Bruna, Bertuccio, Giuseppe, Borghi, Giacomo, Bozzo, Enrico, Cadoux, Franck, Campana, Riccardo, Ceraudo, Francesco, Chen, Tianxiang, Cirrincione, Daniela, De Rosa, Alessandra, Del Monte, Ettore, Di Cosimo, Sergio, Diebold, Sebastian, Evangelista, Yuri, Fan, Qingmei, Favre, Yannick, Ficorella, Francesco, Fuschino, Fabio, Gevin, Olivier, Grassi, Marco, Hong, Bin, Mao, Hanqi, Karas, Vladimir, Kennedy, Tom, Labanti, Claudio, Limousin, Olivier, Cicero, Ugo Lo, Lu, Fang-Jun, Luo, Tao, Malcovati, Piero, Martindale, Adrian, Meuris, Aline, Michalska, Malgorzata, Morbidini, Alfredo, Muleri, Fabio, Orleanski, Piotr, Paltani, Stephane, Pan, Teng, Perinati, Emanuele, Picciotto, Antonino, Pohl, Martin, Rashevskaia, Irina, Santangelo, Andrea, Schanne, Stephane, Skup, Konrad, Svoboda, Jiri, Tenzer, Chris, Vacchi, Andrea, Walton, Dave, Winter, Berend, Wu, Xin, Xu, Yupeng, Zampa, Ganluigi, Zampa, Nicola, Zane, Silvia, Zdziarski, Andrzej, Zhang, Long, Zhang, Shu, Zhang, Shuang-Nan, Zhang, Wenda, Zhang, Xiaoli, Zhou, Yupeng, and Zorzi, Nicola

Subjects
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract

The eXTP (enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry) mission is a major project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and China National Space Administration (CNSA) currently performing an extended phase A study and proposed for a launch by 2025 in a low-earth orbit. The eXTP scientific payload envisages a suite of instruments (Spectroscopy Focusing Array, Polarimetry Focusing Array, Large Area Detector and Wide Field Monitor) offering unprecedented simultaneous wide-band X-ray spectral, timing and polarimetry sensitivity. A large European consortium is contributing to the eXTP study and it is expected to provide key hardware elements, including a Large Area Detector (LAD). The LAD instrument for eXTP is based on the design originally proposed for the LOFT mission within the ESA context. The eXTP/LAD envisages a deployed 3.4 m2 effective area in the 2-30 keV energy range, achieved through the technology of the large-area Silicon Drift Detectors - offering a spectral resolution of up to 200 eV FWHM at 6 keV - and of capillary plate collimators - limiting the field of view to about 1 degree. In this paper we provide an overview of the LAD instrument design, including new elements with respect to the earlier LOFT configuration., Comment: Paper presented at SPIE Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018

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2018
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5. The Athena X-ray Integral Field Unit: a consolidated design for the system requirement review of the preliminary definition phase

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Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Física, Ingeniería de Sistemas y Teoría de la Señal, Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Universitario de Física Aplicada a las Ciencias y las Tecnologías, Barret, Didier, Albouys, Vincent, den Herder, Jan-Willem, Piro, Luigi, Cappi, Massimo, Huovelin, Juhani, Kelley, Richard, Mas-Hesse, J. Miguel, Paltani, Stéphane, Rauw, Gregor, Rozanska, Agata, Bernard, Vivian, Berrocal, Alicia, Audard, Marc, Blin, Sylvie, Bonino, Donata, Frericks, Martin, Bonnet, François, Bonny, Patrick, Boorman, Peter, Ptak, Andy, Chaoul, Laurence, Boreux, Charles, Bounab, Ayoub, Boutelier, Martin, Boyce, Kevin, Brienza, Daniele, Bandler, Simon, Bruijn, Marcel, Gabici, Stefano, Bulgarelli, Andrea, Calarco, Simona, Raulin, Desi, Gloaguen, Emilie, Callanan, Paul, Prada Campello, Alberto, Camus, Thierry, Canourgues, Florent, Capobianco, Vito, Cardiel, Nicolas, Castellani, Florent, Barbera, Marco, Gant, Florent, Simionescu, Aurora, Cheatom, Oscar, Doumayrou, Eric, Chervenak, James, Chiarello, Fabio, Clerc, Laurent, Clerc, Nicolas, Cobo, Beatriz, Coeur-Joly, Odile, Coleiro, Alexis, Colonges, Stéphane, Torrejon, Jose M., Corcione, Leonardo, Gao, Jian-Rong, Puccetti, Simonetta, Barcons, Xavier, Coriat, Mickael, Coynel, Alexandre, Cuttaia, Francesco, D’Ai, Antonino, D’anca, Fabio, Dadina, Mauro, Acero, Fabio, Daniel, Christophe, Dauner, Lea, DeNigris, Natalie, Puccio, Elena, Gastaldello, Fabio, Dercksen, Johannes, Bozzo, Enrico, DiPirro, Michael, Genolet, Ludovic, Durkin, Malcom, van Leeuwen, Bert-Joost, Charles, Ivan, Ghizzardi, Simona, Alcacera Gil, M. Angeles, Giovannini, Elisa, Ramon, Pascale, Godet, Olivier, Gomez-Elvira, Javier, Gonzalez, Raoul, Gonzalez, Manuel, Gottardi, Luciano, Branduardi-Raymont, Graziella, Granat, Dolorès, Fioretti, Valentina, Gros, Michel, Costantini, Elisa, Guignard, Nicolas, Reina, Manuel, Hieltjes, Paul, Hurtado, Adolfo Jesús, Irwin, Kent, Jacquey, Christian, Ettori, Stefano, Janiuk, Agnieszka, Jaubert, Jean, Jiménez, Maria, Geoffray, Hervé, Jolly, Antoine, Jourdan, Thierry, Rioland, Guillaume, Dauser, Thomas, Julien, Sabine, Kedziora, Bartosz, Finoguenov, Alexis, Korb, Andrew, Kreykenbohm, Ingo, König, Ole, Langer, Mathieu, Laudet, Philippe, Jacques, Lionel, Laurent, Philippe, Rodriguez, Louis, Laurenza, Monica, Lesrel, Jean, Etcheverry, Christophe, Decourchelle, Anne, Ligori, Sebastiano, Lorenz, Maximilian, Luminari, Alfredo, Maffei, Bruno, Maisonnave, Océane, Marelli, Lorenzo, Kirsch, Christian, Roig, Anton, Massonet, Didier, Petit, Pascal, Maussang, Irwin, Melchor, Alejandro Gonzalo, Le Mer, Isabelle, Duband, Lionel, San Millan, Francisco Javier, Millerioux, Jean-Pierre, Mineo, Teresa, Minervini, Gabriele, Molin, Alexeï, Gatti, Flavio, Grosso, Nicolas, Smith, Stephen, Monestes, David, Montinaro, Nicola, Mot, Baptiste, Murat, David, Nagayoshi, Kenichiro, Duval, Jean-Marc, Nazé, Yaël, Noguès, Loïc, Pailot, Damien, Kaastra, Jelle, Rollet, Bertrand, Panessa, Francesca, Adams, Joseph, Parodi, Luigi, Roncarelli, Mauro, Dubbeldam, Luc, Hoogeveen, Ruud, Roudil, Gilles, Rudnicki, Tomasz, Sanisidro, Julien, Mazzotta, Pasquale, Sciortino, Luisa, Silva, Vitor, Sordet, Michael, Soto-Aguilar, Javier, Spizzi, Pierre, Goldwurm, Andrea, Dupieux, Michel, Surace, Christian, Svoboda, Jiri, Fernández Sánchez, Miguel, Miller, Jon, Taralli, Emanuele, Terrasa, Guilhem, Terrier, Régis, Todaro, Michela, Ubertini, Pietro, Uslenghi, Michela, Vaate, Jan Geralt Bijd de, Dupourqué, Simon, Vaccaro, Davide, den Hartog, Roland, Miniutti, Giovanni, van der Hulst, Paul, Varisco, Salvatore, Varnière, Peggy, Vibert, Laurent, Vidriales, María, Villa, Fabrizio, Vodopivec, Boris Martin, Volpe, Angela, Durand, Jean Louis, Vries, Cor de, Nicastro, Fabrizio, Wakeham, Nicholas, Walmsley, Gavin, Kiviranta, Mikko, Jackson, Brian, Wise, Michael, Wit, Martin de, Woźniak, Grzegorz, Jonker, Peter, Kilbourne, Caroline, Eckert, Dominique, Sciortino, Salvatore, Korpela, Seppo, Macculi, Claudio, Mendez, Mariano, Mitsuda, Kazuhisa, van der Kuur, Jan, Molendi, Silvano, Pajot, François, Pointecouteau, Etienne, Porter, Frederick, Pratt, Gabriel W., van Loon, Dennis, Eiriz, Valvanera, Prêle, Damien, Ravera, Laurent, Sato, Kosuke, Schaye, Joop, Shinozaki, Keisuke, Ledot, Aurélien, Skup, Konrad, Soucek, Jan, Thibert, Tanguy, Yamaguchi, Hiroya, Vink, Jacco, Ercolani, Eric, Webb, Natalie, Beaumont, Sophie, Piconcelli, Enrico, Ceballos, Maria Teresa, Cucchetti, Edoardo, D’Andrea, Matteo, Eckart, Megan, Ferrando, Philippe, Kammoun, Elias, Lotti, Simone, Mesnager, Jean-Michel, Natalucci, Lorenzo, Lyautey, Bertrand, Pinto, Ciro, Peille, Philippe, Doriese, William, de Plaa, Jelle, Ardellier, Florence, Argan, Andrea, Bellouard, Elise, Carron, Jérôme, Cavazzuti, Elisabetta, Fiorini, Mauro, Khosropanah, Pourya, Encinas Plaza, Jose Miguel, Martin, Sylvain, Parot, Yann, Finkbeiner, Fred, Perry, James, Pinsard, Frederic, Pradines, Alice, Rigano, Manuela, Roelfsema, Peter, Schwander, Denis, Torrioli, Guido, Plaza, Borja, Ullom, Joel, Vera, Isabel, Medinaceli Villegas, Eduardo, Fiocchi, Mariateresa, Sakai, Kazuhiro, Zuchniak, Monika, Brachet, Frank, Lo Cicero, Ugo, van Weers, Henk, Wilms, Joern, Fiore, Fabrizio, Abdoelkariem, Shariefa, Adam, Thomas, Adami, Christophe, Aicardi, Corinne, Fossecave, Hervé, Akamatsu, Hiroki, Merino Alonso, Pablo Eleazar, Amato, Roberta, André, Jérôme, Angelinelli, Matteo, Poyatos, David, Anon-Cancela, Manuel, Yamasaki, Noriko, Anvar, Shebli, Atienza, Ricardo, Attard, Anthony, Franssen, Philippe, Auricchio, Natalia, Balado, Ana, Bancel, Florian, Barusso, Lorenzo Ferrari, Prouvé, Thomas, Bascuñan, Arturo, Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Física, Ingeniería de Sistemas y Teoría de la Señal, Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Universitario de Física Aplicada a las Ciencias y las Tecnologías, Barret, Didier, Albouys, Vincent, den Herder, Jan-Willem, Piro, Luigi, Cappi, Massimo, Huovelin, Juhani, Kelley, Richard, Mas-Hesse, J. Miguel, Paltani, Stéphane, Rauw, Gregor, Rozanska, Agata, Bernard, Vivian, Berrocal, Alicia, Audard, Marc, Blin, Sylvie, Bonino, Donata, Frericks, Martin, Bonnet, François, Bonny, Patrick, Boorman, Peter, Ptak, Andy, Chaoul, Laurence, Boreux, Charles, Bounab, Ayoub, Boutelier, Martin, Boyce, Kevin, Brienza, Daniele, Bandler, Simon, Bruijn, Marcel, Gabici, Stefano, Bulgarelli, Andrea, Calarco, Simona, Raulin, Desi, Gloaguen, Emilie, Callanan, Paul, Prada Campello, Alberto, Camus, Thierry, Canourgues, Florent, Capobianco, Vito, Cardiel, Nicolas, Castellani, Florent, Barbera, Marco, Gant, Florent, Simionescu, Aurora, Cheatom, Oscar, Doumayrou, Eric, Chervenak, James, Chiarello, Fabio, Clerc, Laurent, Clerc, Nicolas, Cobo, Beatriz, Coeur-Joly, Odile, Coleiro, Alexis, Colonges, Stéphane, Torrejon, Jose M., Corcione, Leonardo, Gao, Jian-Rong, Puccetti, Simonetta, Barcons, Xavier, Coriat, Mickael, Coynel, Alexandre, Cuttaia, Francesco, D’Ai, Antonino, D’anca, Fabio, Dadina, Mauro, Acero, Fabio, Daniel, Christophe, Dauner, Lea, DeNigris, Natalie, Puccio, Elena, Gastaldello, Fabio, Dercksen, Johannes, Bozzo, Enrico, DiPirro, Michael, Genolet, Ludovic, Durkin, Malcom, van Leeuwen, Bert-Joost, Charles, Ivan, Ghizzardi, Simona, Alcacera Gil, M. Angeles, Giovannini, Elisa, Ramon, Pascale, Godet, Olivier, Gomez-Elvira, Javier, Gonzalez, Raoul, Gonzalez, Manuel, Gottardi, Luciano, Branduardi-Raymont, Graziella, Granat, Dolorès, Fioretti, Valentina, Gros, Michel, Costantini, Elisa, Guignard, Nicolas, Reina, Manuel, Hieltjes, Paul, Hurtado, Adolfo Jesús, Irwin, Kent, Jacquey, Christian, Ettori, Stefano, Janiuk, Agnieszka, Jaubert, Jean, Jiménez, Maria, Geoffray, Hervé, Jolly, Antoine, Jourdan, Thierry, Rioland, Guillaume, Dauser, Thomas, Julien, Sabine, Kedziora, Bartosz, Finoguenov, Alexis, Korb, Andrew, Kreykenbohm, Ingo, König, Ole, Langer, Mathieu, Laudet, Philippe, Jacques, Lionel, Laurent, Philippe, Rodriguez, Louis, Laurenza, Monica, Lesrel, Jean, Etcheverry, Christophe, Decourchelle, Anne, Ligori, Sebastiano, Lorenz, Maximilian, Luminari, Alfredo, Maffei, Bruno, Maisonnave, Océane, Marelli, Lorenzo, Kirsch, Christian, Roig, Anton, Massonet, Didier, Petit, Pascal, Maussang, Irwin, Melchor, Alejandro Gonzalo, Le Mer, Isabelle, Duband, Lionel, San Millan, Francisco Javier, Millerioux, Jean-Pierre, Mineo, Teresa, Minervini, Gabriele, Molin, Alexeï, Gatti, Flavio, Grosso, Nicolas, Smith, Stephen, Monestes, David, Montinaro, Nicola, Mot, Baptiste, Murat, David, Nagayoshi, Kenichiro, Duval, Jean-Marc, Nazé, Yaël, Noguès, Loïc, Pailot, Damien, Kaastra, Jelle, Rollet, Bertrand, Panessa, Francesca, Adams, Joseph, Parodi, Luigi, Roncarelli, Mauro, Dubbeldam, Luc, Hoogeveen, Ruud, Roudil, Gilles, Rudnicki, Tomasz, Sanisidro, Julien, Mazzotta, Pasquale, Sciortino, Luisa, Silva, Vitor, Sordet, Michael, Soto-Aguilar, Javier, Spizzi, Pierre, Goldwurm, Andrea, Dupieux, Michel, Surace, Christian, Svoboda, Jiri, Fernández Sánchez, Miguel, Miller, Jon, Taralli, Emanuele, Terrasa, Guilhem, Terrier, Régis, Todaro, Michela, Ubertini, Pietro, Uslenghi, Michela, Vaate, Jan Geralt Bijd de, Dupourqué, Simon, Vaccaro, Davide, den Hartog, Roland, Miniutti, Giovanni, van der Hulst, Paul, Varisco, Salvatore, Varnière, Peggy, Vibert, Laurent, Vidriales, María, Villa, Fabrizio, Vodopivec, Boris Martin, Volpe, Angela, Durand, Jean Louis, Vries, Cor de, Nicastro, Fabrizio, Wakeham, Nicholas, Walmsley, Gavin, Kiviranta, Mikko, Jackson, Brian, Wise, Michael, Wit, Martin de, Woźniak, Grzegorz, Jonker, Peter, Kilbourne, Caroline, Eckert, Dominique, Sciortino, Salvatore, Korpela, Seppo, Macculi, Claudio, Mendez, Mariano, Mitsuda, Kazuhisa, van der Kuur, Jan, Molendi, Silvano, Pajot, François, Pointecouteau, Etienne, Porter, Frederick, Pratt, Gabriel W., van Loon, Dennis, Eiriz, Valvanera, Prêle, Damien, Ravera, Laurent, Sato, Kosuke, Schaye, Joop, Shinozaki, Keisuke, Ledot, Aurélien, Skup, Konrad, Soucek, Jan, Thibert, Tanguy, Yamaguchi, Hiroya, Vink, Jacco, Ercolani, Eric, Webb, Natalie, Beaumont, Sophie, Piconcelli, Enrico, Ceballos, Maria Teresa, Cucchetti, Edoardo, D’Andrea, Matteo, Eckart, Megan, Ferrando, Philippe, Kammoun, Elias, Lotti, Simone, Mesnager, Jean-Michel, Natalucci, Lorenzo, Lyautey, Bertrand, Pinto, Ciro, Peille, Philippe, Doriese, William, de Plaa, Jelle, Ardellier, Florence, Argan, Andrea, Bellouard, Elise, Carron, Jérôme, Cavazzuti, Elisabetta, Fiorini, Mauro, Khosropanah, Pourya, Encinas Plaza, Jose Miguel, Martin, Sylvain, Parot, Yann, Finkbeiner, Fred, Perry, James, Pinsard, Frederic, Pradines, Alice, Rigano, Manuela, Roelfsema, Peter, Schwander, Denis, Torrioli, Guido, Plaza, Borja, Ullom, Joel, Vera, Isabel, Medinaceli Villegas, Eduardo, Fiocchi, Mariateresa, Sakai, Kazuhiro, Zuchniak, Monika, Brachet, Frank, Lo Cicero, Ugo, van Weers, Henk, Wilms, Joern, Fiore, Fabrizio, Abdoelkariem, Shariefa, Adam, Thomas, Adami, Christophe, Aicardi, Corinne, Fossecave, Hervé, Akamatsu, Hiroki, Merino Alonso, Pablo Eleazar, Amato, Roberta, André, Jérôme, Angelinelli, Matteo, Poyatos, David, Anon-Cancela, Manuel, Yamasaki, Noriko, Anvar, Shebli, Atienza, Ricardo, Attard, Anthony, Franssen, Philippe, Auricchio, Natalia, Balado, Ana, Bancel, Florian, Barusso, Lorenzo Ferrari, Prouvé, Thomas, and Bascuñan, Arturo

Abstract

The Athena X-ray Integral Unit (X-IFU) is the high resolution X-ray spectrometer studied since 2015 for flying in the mid-30s on the Athena space X-ray Observatory. Athena is a versatile observatory designed to address the Hot and Energetic Universe science theme, as selected in November 2013 by the Survey Science Committee. Based on a large format array of Transition Edge Sensors (TES), X-IFU aims to provide spatially resolved X-ray spectroscopy, with a spectral resolution of 2.5 eV (up to 7 keV) over a hexagonal field of view of 5 arc minutes (equivalent diameter). The X-IFU entered its System Requirement Review (SRR) in June 2022, at about the same time when ESA called for an overall X-IFU redesign (including the X-IFU cryostat and the cooling chain), due to an unanticipated cost overrun of Athena. In this paper, after illustrating the breakthrough capabilities of the X-IFU, we describe the instrument as presented at its SRR (i.e. in the course of its preliminary definition phase, so-called B1), browsing through all the subsystems and associated requirements. We then show the instrument budgets, with a particular emphasis on the anticipated budgets of some of its key performance parameters, such as the instrument efficiency, spectral resolution, energy scale knowledge, count rate capability, non X-ray background and target of opportunity efficiency. Finally, we briefly discuss the ongoing key technology demonstration activities, the calibration and the activities foreseen in the X-IFU Instrument Science Center, touch on communication and outreach activities, the consortium organisation and the life cycle assessment of X-IFU aiming at minimising the environmental footprint, associated with the development of the instrument. Thanks to the studies conducted so far on X-IFU, it is expected that along the design-to-cost exercise requested by ESA, the X-IFU will maintain flagship capabilities in spatially resolved high resolution X-ray spectroscopy, enabling most of th

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2023

6. The enhanced x-ray timing and polarimetry mission: eXTP: an update on its scientific cases, mission profile and development status

Author

Zhang, Shuang Nan, Santangelo, Andrea, Xu, Yupeng, Feroci, Marco, Hernanz, Margarita, Lu, Fangjun, Chen, Yong, Feng, Hua, Nandra, Kirpal, Jiang, Weichun, Svoboda, Jiri, Brandt, Søren, Schanne, Stéphane, Zand, Jean, Michalska, Malgorzata, Bozzo, Enrico, Kalemci, Emrah, Agudo, Ivan, Ahangarianabhari, Mahdi, Aitink-Kroes, Gabby, Ambrosi, Giovanni, Ambrosino, Filippo, An, Zhenghua, Perez Torres, Miguel Angel, Antonelli, Matias, Argan, Andrea, Babinec, Viktor, Baldini, Luca, Barbera, Marco, van Baren, Coen, Baudin, David, Bayer, Jörg, Bellazzini, Ronaldo, Bellutti, Pierluigi, Bertucci, Bruna, Bertuccio, Giuseppe, Bi, Xingzi, Boezio, Mirko, Bonvicini, Valter, Bonvicini, Walter, Bordas, Pol, Borghese, Alice, Borghi, Giacomo, Bouyjou, Florent, Bozkurt, Ayhan, Brez, Alessandro, Brienza, Daniele, Cadoux, Franck, Campana, Riccardo, Cao, Jiewei, Cao, Xuelei, Casares, Jorge, Cavazzuti, Elisabetta, Ceraudo, Francesco, Chen, Tianxiang, Chen, Wen, Chen, Can, Chen, Yupeng, Chen, Xin, Chen, Yehai, Chenevez, Jerome, Cheng, Yaodong, Cirrincione, Daniela, Civitani, Marta, Cong, Min, Zelati, Francesco Coti, Cui, Weiwei, Cui, Tao, Cui, Wei, Dai, Boyu, Dauser, Thomas, De Angelis, Nicolas, De Marco, Barbara, De Rosa, Alessandra, Monte, Ettore Del, Cosimo, Sergio Di, Diebold, Sebastian, Dilillo, Giuseppe, Ding, Fei, Dohnal, Roman, Dong, Zefang, Donnarumma, Immacolata, Dovciak, Michal, Du, Yuanyuan, Ducci, Lorenzo, Evangelista, Yuri, Fan, Qingmei, Favre, Yannick, Ferrés, Patrícia, Fiandrini, Emanuele, Ficorella, Francesco, Fuschino, Fabio, Gálvez, José Luis, Gao, Na, Gao, Min, Ge, Yuqiang, Ge, Mingyu, Gevin, Olivier, Grassi, Marco, Gu, Yudong, Gu, Quanying, Guan, Ju, Guedel, Manuel, Han, Xingbo, Han, Dawei, He, Huilin, He, Junwang, Hedderman, Paul, den Herder, Jan Willem, Hong, Bin, Hormaetxe, Ander, Hou, Dongjie, Hu, Zexun, Hu, Hao, Hu, Qingbao, Hu, Yu, Huang, Yue, Huang, Jiangjiang, Huang, Qiushi, Huo, Jia, Hynek, Richard, Iwasawa, Kazumi, Izzo, Lucca, Ji, Long, Jia, Shumei, Jiang, Bowen, Jiang, Wei, Jiang, Jiechen, Jiang, Xiaowei, Jiao, Yang, Jin, Ge, Jin, Fan, Jose, Jordi, Karas, Vladimir, Kennedy, Thomas, Kirsch, Christian, Kole, Merlin, Komarek, Martin, Kreykenbohm, Ingo, Kuiper, Lucien, Kuvvetli, Irfan, Labanti, Claudio, Latronico, Luca, Laubert, Phillip, Li, Tao, Li, Longhui, Li, Hong, Li, Duo, Li, Wei, Li, Maoshun, Li, Gang, Li, Xiaobo, Li, Chengkui, Li, Bing, Li, Haibo, Liang, Hong, Liao, Qiuyan, Liao, Jinyuan, Limousin, Olivier, Lin, Yanjian, Linares, Manuel, Liu, Rui, Liu, Yichen, Liu, Zhihao, Liu, Hongwei, Liu, Xiaojing, Liu, Xiaohua, Cicero, Ugo Lo, Loehring, Jens, Lombardi, Giovanni, Lorenz, Maximilian, Lu, Bing, Lucchesi, Leonardo, Luo, Tao, Luo, Laidan, Ma, Jia, Ma, Xiang, Macera, Daniele, Malcovati, Piero, Manfreda, Alberto, Paredes, Josep Maria, Marinucci, Andrea, Martindale, Adrian, Meidinger, Norbert, Mele, Filippo, Mendes, Vasco, Meng, Bin, Merkl, Martin, Meuris, Aline, Miniutti, Giovanni, Minuti, Massimo, Morbidini, Alfredo, Morgante, Gianluca, Muleri, Fabio, Munini, Riccardo, Mussolin, Lorenzo, Negri, Barbara, Nie, Jianyin, Novák, Petr, Nowosielski, Witold, Nuti, Alessio, Onat, Ahmet, Orleanski, Piotr, Orsini, Leonardo, Ottensamer, Roland, Ou, Ge, Pacciani, Luigi, Paltani, Stephane, Pan, Teng, Pan, Kai, Pareschi, Giovanni, Patruno, Alessandro, Pepponi, Giancarlo, Perinati, Emanuele, Piazzolla, Raffaele, Picciotto, Antonino, Piemonte, Claudio, Pinchera, Michele, Pliego, Samuel, Poutanen, Juri, Qi, Liqiang, Qi, Fazhi, Qiang, Pengfei, Qiao, Fangjian, Qiao, Zheng, Qiu, Xiangbiao, Qiu, Chengbo, Qu, Jinlu, Rachevski, Alexandre, Rashevskaia, Irina, Rea, Nanda, Ribo, Marc, de la Rie, Rob, Rodriguez, Jerome, Gil, Pablo Rodríguez, Sala, Gloria, Schanz, Thomas, Serafinelli, Roberto, Sgro, Carmelo, Shen, Zhengxiang, Sheng, Lizhi, Shi, Jingyan, Sironi, Giorgia, Skup, Konrad, Song, Liming, Song, Zeyu, Song, Jiangbo, Spandre, Gloria, Spiga, Daniele, Su, Yongquan, Sun, Liang, Sungur, Müberra, Svéda, Libor, Tagliaferri, Gianpiero, Tan, Ying, Tao, Lian, Tcherniak, Denis, Tenzer, Chris, Todaro, Michela, Tolos, Laura, Torok, Gabriel, Torres, Diego F., Trois, Alessio, Turhan, Onur, Uttley, Phil, Vacchi, Andrea, Virgilli, Enrico, Vogel, Channah, Walton, Dave, Wang, Jian, Wang, Xianqi, Wang, Bo, Wang, Langping, Wang, Xiaofeng, Wang, Dianlong, Wang, Yusa, Wang, Juan, Wang, Hao, Wang, Ruijie, Wang, Ping, Wang, Lingjun, Wang, Wenshuai, Wang, Tian, Wang, Haoyu, Wang, Zhanshan, Watts, Anna L., Wen, Xiangyang, Wilms, Jörn, Winter, Berend, Wu, Xin, Wu, Chao, Wu, Zhenyu, Wu, Qiong, Wu, Kaiji, Xiong, Hao, Xiong, Shaolin, Xu, Wei, Xu, Zhao, Xu, Jingjing, Xu, Xiongwei, Xue, Jiadai, Yan, Yongqing, Yan, Xingtao, Yang, Xianghui, Yang, Yanji, Yang, Xiongtao, Yang, Sheng, Yang, Jiawei, Yang, Yingquan, Yi, Shuxu, Yu, Yonggao, Yu, Ke, Zampa, Ganluigi, Zampa, Nicola, Zane, Silvia, Zdziarski, Andrzej A., Zhang, Long, Zhang, Shu, Zhang, Wenda, Zhang, Xiaoli, Zhang, Zhen, Zhang, Jiawei, Zhang, Fan, Zhang, Ziliang, Zhang, Dali, Zhang, Honglin, Zhang, Aimei, Zhang, Tong, Zhang, Hongmei, Zhang, Juan, Zhang, Liang, Zhang, Yueting, Zhao, Li, Zhao, Baosheng, Zhao, Zijian, Zhao, Xiaofan, Zhao, Haisheng, Zhao, Xiaoyun, Zheng, Shijie, Zhou, Yupeng, Zhou, Xiaohong, Zhu, Jiahuan, Zhu, Yuxuan, Zhu, Cheng, Zhu, Zhencai, Zorzi, Nicola, Zwart, Frans, den Herder, Jan-Willem A., Nikzad, Shouleh, Nakazawa, Kazuhiro, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (Germany), and Foundation for Polish Science

Subjects
Equation of state, Extreme gravity, Black hole, X-ray timing, X-ray polarimetry, Neutron star, Extreme magnetism, Extreme density
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Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray (2022), Montreal, Jul 17-22, 2022.--Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering vol. 12181 Article number 121811W.-- Full list of authors: Zhang, Shuang-Nan; Santangelo, Andrea; Xu, Yupeng; Feroci, Marco; Hernanz, Margarita; Lu, Fangjun; Chen, Yong; Feng, Hua; Nandra, Kirpal; Jiang, Weichun; Svoboda, Jiri; Brandt, Soren; Schanne, Stephane; in't Zand, Jean; Michalska, Malgorzata; Bozzo, Enrico; Kalemci, Emrah; Agudo, Ivan; Ahangarianabhari, Mahdi; Aitink-Kroes, Gabby; Ambrosi, Giovanni; Ambrosino, Filippo; An, Zhenghua; Perez Torres, Miguel Angel; Antonelli, Matias; Argan, Andrea; Babinec, Viktor; Baldini, Luca; Barbera, Marco; van Baren, Coen; Baudin, David; Bayer, Joerg; Bellazzini, Ronaldo; Bellutti, Pierluigi; Bertucci, Bruna; Bertuccio, Giuseppe; Bi, Xingzi; Boezio, Mirko; Bonvicini, Valter; Bonvicini, Walter; Bordas, Pol; Borghese, Alice; Borghi, Giacomo; Bouyjou, Florent; Bozkurt, Ayhan; Brez, Alessandro; Brienza, Daniele; Cadoux, Franck; Campana, Riccardo; Cao, Jiewei; Cao, Xuelei; Casares, Jorge; Cavazzuti, Elisabetta; Ceraudo, Francesco; Chen, Tianxiang; Chen, Wen; Chen, Can; Chen, Yupeng; Chen, Xin; Chen, Yehai; Chenevez, Jerome; Cheng, Yaodong; Cirrincione, Daniela; Civitani, Marta; Cong, Min; Coti Zelati, Francesco; Cui, Weiwei; Cui, Tao; Cui, Wei; Dai, Boyu; Dauser, Thomas; De Angelis, Nicolas; De Marco, Barbara; De Rosa, Alessandra; Del Monte, Ettore; Di Cosimo, Sergio; Diebold, Sebastian; Dilillo, Giuseppe; Ding, Fei; Dohnal, Roman; Dong, Zefang; Donnarumma, Immacolata; Dovciak, Michal; Du, Yuanyuan; Ducci, Lorenzo; Evangelista, Yuri; Fan, Qingmei; Favre, Yannick; Ferres, Patricia; Fiandrini, Emanuele; Ficorella, Francesco; Fuschino, Fabio; Luis Galvez, Jose; Gao, Na; Gao, Min; Ge, Yuqiang; Ge, Mingyu; Gevin, Olivier; Grassi, Marco; Gu, Yudong; Gu, Quanying; Guan, Ju; Guedel, Manuel; Han, Xingbo; Han, Dawei; He, Huilin; He, Junwang; Hedderman, Paul; den Herder, Jan-Willem; Hong, Bin; Hormaetxe, Ander; Hou, Dongjie; Hu, Zexun; Hu, Hao; Hu, Qingbao; Hu, Yu; Huang, Yue; Huang, Jiangjiang; Huang, Qiushi; Huo, Jia; Hynek, Richard; Iwasawa, Kazumi; Izzo, Lucca; Ji, Long; Jia, Shumei; Jiang, Bowen; Jiang, Wei; Jiang, Jiechen; Jiang, Xiaowei; Jiao, Yang; Jin, Ge; Jin, Fan; Jose, Jordi; Karas, Vladimir; Kennedy, Thomas; Kirsch, Christian; Kole, Merlin; Komarek, Martin; Kreykenbohm, Ingo; Kuiper, Lucien; Kuvvetli, Irfan; Labanti, Claudio; Latronico, Luca; Laubert, Phillip; Li, Tao; Li, Longhui; Li, Hong; Li, Duo; Li, Wei; Li, Maoshun; Li, Gang; Li, Xiaobo; Li, Chengkui; Li, Bing; Li, Haibo; Liang, Hong; Liao, Qiuyan; Liao, Jinyuan; Limousin, Olivier; Lin, Yanjian; Linares, Manuel; Liu, Rui; Liu, Yichen; Liu, Zhihao; Liu, Hongwei; Liu, Xiaojing; Liu, Xiaohua; Lo Cicero, Ugo; Loehring, Jens; Lombardi, Giovanni; Lorenz, Maximilian; Lu, Bing; Lucchesi, Leonardo; Luo, Tao; Luo, Laidan; Ma, Jia; Ma, Xiang; Macera, Daniele; Malcovati, Piero; Manfreda, Alberto; Maria Paredes, Josep; Marinucci, Andrea; Martindale, Adrian; Meidinger, Norbert; Mele, Filippo; Mendes, Vasco; Meng, Bin; Merkl, Martin; Meuris, Aline; Miniutti, Giovanni; Minuti, Massimo; Morbidini, Alfredo; Morgante, Gianluca; Muleri, Fabio; Munini, Riccardo; Mussolin, Lorenzo; Negri, Barbara; Nie, Jianyin; Novak, Petr; Nowosielski, Witold; Nuti, Alessio; Onat, Ahmet; Orleanski, Piotr; Orsini, Leonardo; Ottensamer, Roland; Ou, Ge; Pacciani, Luigi; Paltani, Stephane; Pan, Teng; Pan, Kai; Pareschi, Giovanni; Patruno, Alessandro; Pepponi, Giancarlo; Perinati, Emanuele; Piazzolla, Raffaele; Picciotto, Antonino; Piemonte, Claudio; Pinchera, Michele; Pliego, Samuel; Poutanen, Juri; Qi, Liqiang; Qi, Fazhi; Qiang, Pengfei; Qiao, Fangjian; Qiao, Zheng; Qiu, Xiangbiao; Qiu, Chengbo; Qu, Jinlu; Rachevski, Alexandre; Rashevskaia, Irina; Rea, Nanda; Ribo, Marc; de la Rie, Rob; Rodriguez, Jerome; Rodriguez Gil, Pablo; Sala, Gloria; Schanz, Thomas; Serafinelli, Roberto; Sgro, Carmelo; Shen, Zhengxiang; Sheng, Lizhi; Shi, Jingyan; Sironi, Giorgia; Skup, Konrad; Song, Liming; Song, Zeyu; Song, Jiangbo; Spandre, Gloria; Spiga, Daniele; Su, Yongquan; Sun, Liang; Sungur, Muberra; Sveda, Libor; Tagliaferri, Gianpiero; Tan, Ying; Tao, Lian; Tcherniak, Denis; Tenzer, Chris; Todaro, Michela; Tolos, Laura; Torok, Gabriel; Torres, Diego F.; Trois, Alessio; Turhan, Onur; Uttley, Phil; Vacchi, Andrea; Virgilli, Enrico; Vogel, Channah; Walton, Dave; Wang, Jian; Wang, Xianqi; Wang, Bo; Wang, Langping; Wang, Xiaofeng; Wang, Dianlong; Wang, Yusa; Wang, Juan; Wang, Hao; Wang, Ruijie; Wang, Ping; Wang, Lingjun; Wang, Wenshuai; Wang, Tian; Wang, Haoyu; Wang, Zhanshan; Watts, Anna L.; Wen, Xiangyang; Wilms, Joern; Winter, Berend; Wu, Xin; Wu, Chao; Wu, Zhenyu; Wu, Qiong; Wu, Kaiji; Xiong, Hao; Xiong, Shaolin; Xu, Wei; Xu, Zhao; Xu, Jingjing; Xu, Xiongwei; Xue, Jiadai; Yan, Yongqing; Yan, Xingtao; Yang, Xianghui; Yang, Yanji; Yang, Xiongtao; Yang, Sheng; Yang, Jiawei; Yang, Yingquan; Yi, Shuxu; Yu, Yonggao; Yu, Ke; Zampa, Ganluigi; Zampa, Nicola; Zane, Silvia; Zdziarski, Andrzej A.; Zhang, Long; Zhang, Shu; Zhang, Wenda; Zhang, Xiaoli; Zhang, Zhen; Zhang, Jiawei; Zhang, Fan; Zhang, Ziliang; Zhang, Dali; Zhang, Honglin; Zhang, Aimei; Zhang, Tong; Zhang, Hongmei; Zhang, Juan; Zhang, Liang; Zhang, Yueting; Zhao, Li; Zhao, Baosheng; Zhao, Zijian; Zhao, Xiaofan; Zhao, Haisheng; Zhao, Xiaoyun; Zheng, Shijie; Zhou, Yupeng; Zhou, Xiaohong; Zhu, Jiahuan; Zhu, Yuxuan; Zhu, Cheng; Zhu, Zhencai; Zorzi, Nicola; Zwart, Frans, The enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry mission (eXTP) is a flagship observatory for X-ray timing, spectroscopy and polarimetry developed by an International Consortium. Thanks to its very large collecting area, good spectral resolution and unprecedented polarimetry capabilities, eXTP will explore the properties of matter and the propagation of light in the most extreme conditions found in the Universe. eXTP will, in addition, be a powerful X-ray observatory. The mission will continuously monitor the X-ray sky, and will enable multiwavelength and multi-messenger studies. The mission is currently in phase B, which will be completed in the middle of 2022. © 2022 SPIE. All rights reserved., The Chinese team acknowledges support by the Chinese Academy of Sciences through the Strategic Priority Research Program, Grant No. XDA15020100. The Italian authors acknowledge funding support by the Italian Space Agency (under agreement n. 2020-3-HH.0 and ASI-INAF n.2017-14-H.O) and INFN (project XRO -X-ray Observatories). The Spanish authors acknowledge funding support from the MICIN/AEI grant PID2019-108709GB-I00. The German team acknowledges support from the Bundesministerium fur Wirtschaft und Technologie through the Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft-und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR) under the grant number FKZ 50 OO 1902. The Polish team acknowledges FNP grant POIR.04.04.00-00-5C65/17. The Czech team acknowledges support from the GACR project 21-06825X. The Turkish team acknowledges support from the Turkish Space Agency., With funding from the Spanish government through the Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence accreditation SEV-2017-0709

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2022

7. The enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry mission – eXTP:an update on its scientific cases, mission profile and development status

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den Herder, Jan-Willem A., Nikzad, Shouleh, Nakazawa, Kazuhiro, Zhang, Shuang Nan, Santangelo, Andrea, Xu, Yupeng, Feroci, Marco, Hernanz, Margarita, Lu, Fangjun, Chen, Yong, Feng, Hua, Nandra, Kirpal, Jiang, Weichun, Svoboda, Jiri, Brandt, Søren, Schanne, Stéphane, Zand, Jean, Michalska, Malgorzata, Bozzo, Enrico, Kalemci, Emrah, Agudo, Ivan, Ahangarianabhari, Mahdi, Aitink-Kroes, Gabby, Ambrosi, Giovanni, Ambrosino, Filippo, An, Zhenghua, Perez Torres, Miguel Angel, Antonelli, Matias, Argan, Andrea, Babinec, Viktor, Baldini, Luca, Barbera, Marco, van Baren, Coen, Baudin, David, Bayer, Jörg, Bellazzini, Ronaldo, Bellutti, Pierluigi, Bertucci, Bruna, Bertuccio, Giuseppe, Bi, Xingzi, Boezio, Mirko, Bonvicini, Valter, Bonvicini, Walter, Bordas, Pol, Borghese, Alice, Borghi, Giacomo, Bouyjou, Florent, Bozkurt, Ayhan, Brez, Alessandro, Brienza, Daniele, Cadoux, Franck, Campana, Riccardo, Cao, Jiewei, Cao, Xuelei, Casares, Jorge, Cavazzuti, Elisabetta, Ceraudo, Francesco, Chen, Tianxiang, Chen, Wen, Chen, Can, Chen, Yupeng, Chen, Xin, Chen, Yehai, Chenevez, Jerome, Cheng, Yaodong, Cirrincione, Daniela, Civitani, Marta, Cong, Min, Zelati, Francesco Coti, Cui, Weiwei, Cui, Tao, Cui, Wei, Dai, Boyu, Dauser, Thomas, De Angelis, Nicolas, De Marco, Barbara, De Rosa, Alessandra, Monte, Ettore Del, Cosimo, Sergio Di, Diebold, Sebastian, Dilillo, Giuseppe, Ding, Fei, Dohnal, Roman, Dong, Zefang, Donnarumma, Immacolata, Dovciak, Michal, Du, Yuanyuan, Ducci, Lorenzo, Evangelista, Yuri, Fan, Qingmei, Favre, Yannick, Ferrés, Patrícia, Fiandrini, Emanuele, Ficorella, Francesco, Fuschino, Fabio, Gálvez, José Luis, Gao, Na, Gao, Min, Ge, Yuqiang, Ge, Mingyu, Gevin, Olivier, Grassi, Marco, Gu, Yudong, Gu, Quanying, Guan, Ju, Guedel, Manuel, Han, Xingbo, Han, Dawei, He, Huilin, He, Junwang, Hedderman, Paul, den Herder, Jan Willem, Hong, Bin, Hormaetxe, Ander, Hou, Dongjie, Hu, Zexun, Hu, Hao, Hu, Qingbao, Hu, Yu, Huang, Yue, Huang, Jiangjiang, Huang, Qiushi, Huo, Jia, Hynek, Richard, Iwasawa, Kazumi, Izzo, Lucca, Ji, Long, Jia, Shumei, Jiang, Bowen, Jiang, Wei, Jiang, Jiechen, Jiang, Xiaowei, Jiao, Yang, Jin, Ge, Jin, Fan, Jose, Jordi, Karas, Vladimir, Kennedy, Thomas, Kirsch, Christian, Kole, Merlin, Komarek, Martin, Kreykenbohm, Ingo, Kuiper, Lucien, Kuvvetli, Irfan, Labanti, Claudio, Latronico, Luca, Laubert, Phillip, Li, Tao, Li, Longhui, Li, Hong, Li, Duo, Li, Wei, Li, Maoshun, Li, Gang, Li, Xiaobo, Li, Chengkui, Li, Bing, Li, Haibo, Liang, Hong, Liao, Qiuyan, Liao, Jinyuan, Limousin, Olivier, Lin, Yanjian, Linares, Manuel, Liu, Rui, Liu, Yichen, Liu, Zhihao, Liu, Hongwei, Liu, Xiaojing, Liu, Xiaohua, Cicero, Ugo Lo, Loehring, Jens, Lombardi, Giovanni, Lorenz, Maximilian, Lu, Bing, Lucchesi, Leonardo, Luo, Tao, Luo, Laidan, Ma, Jia, Ma, Xiang, Macera, Daniele, Malcovati, Piero, Manfreda, Alberto, Paredes, Josep Maria, Marinucci, Andrea, Martindale, Adrian, Meidinger, Norbert, Mele, Filippo, Mendes, Vasco, Meng, Bin, Merkl, Martin, Meuris, Aline, Miniutti, Giovanni, Minuti, Massimo, Morbidini, Alfredo, Morgante, Gianluca, Muleri, Fabio, Munini, Riccardo, Mussolin, Lorenzo, Negri, Barbara, Nie, Jianyin, Novák, Petr, Nowosielski, Witold, Nuti, Alessio, Onat, Ahmet, Orleanski, Piotr, Orsini, Leonardo, Ottensamer, Roland, Ou, Ge, Pacciani, Luigi, Paltani, Stephane, Pan, Teng, Pan, Kai, Pareschi, Giovanni, Patruno, Alessandro, Pepponi, Giancarlo, Perinati, Emanuele, Piazzolla, Raffaele, Picciotto, Antonino, Piemonte, Claudio, Pinchera, Michele, Pliego, Samuel, Poutanen, Juri, Qi, Liqiang, Qi, Fazhi, Qiang, Pengfei, Qiao, Fangjian, Qiao, Zheng, Qiu, Xiangbiao, Qiu, Chengbo, Qu, Jinlu, Rachevski, Alexandre, Rashevskaia, Irina, Rea, Nanda, Ribo, Marc, de la Rie, Rob, Rodriguez, Jerome, Gil, Pablo Rodríguez, Sala, Gloria, Schanz, Thomas, Serafinelli, Roberto, Sgro, Carmelo, Shen, Zhengxiang, Sheng, Lizhi, Shi, Jingyan, Sironi, Giorgia, Skup, Konrad, Song, Liming, Song, Zeyu, Song, Jiangbo, Spandre, Gloria, Spiga, Daniele, Su, Yongquan, Sun, Liang, Sungur, Müberra, Svéda, Libor, Tagliaferri, Gianpiero, Tan, Ying, Tao, Lian, Tcherniak, Denis, Tenzer, Chris, Todaro, Michela, Tolos, Laura, Torok, Gabriel, Torres, Diego F., Trois, Alessio, Turhan, Onur, Uttley, Phil, Vacchi, Andrea, Virgilli, Enrico, Vogel, Channah, Walton, Dave, Wang, Jian, Wang, Xianqi, Wang, Bo, Wang, Langping, Wang, Xiaofeng, Wang, Dianlong, Wang, Yusa, Wang, Juan, Wang, Hao, Wang, Ruijie, Wang, Ping, Wang, Lingjun, Wang, Wenshuai, Wang, Tian, Wang, Haoyu, Wang, Zhanshan, Watts, Anna L., Wen, Xiangyang, Wilms, Jörn, Winter, Berend, Wu, Xin, Wu, Chao, Wu, Zhenyu, Wu, Qiong, Wu, Kaiji, Xiong, Hao, Xiong, Shaolin, Xu, Wei, Xu, Zhao, Xu, Jingjing, Xu, Xiongwei, Xue, Jiadai, Yan, Yongqing, Yan, Xingtao, Yang, Xianghui, Yang, Yanji, Yang, Xiongtao, Yang, Sheng, Yang, Jiawei, Yang, Yingquan, Yi, Shuxu, Yu, Yonggao, Yu, Ke, Zampa, Ganluigi, Zampa, Nicola, Zane, Silvia, Zdziarski, Andrzej A., Zhang, Long, Zhang, Shu, Zhang, Wenda, Zhang, Xiaoli, Zhang, Zhen, Zhang, Jiawei, Zhang, Fan, Zhang, Ziliang, Zhang, Dali, Zhang, Honglin, Zhang, Aimei, Zhang, Tong, Zhang, Hongmei, Zhang, Juan, Zhang, Liang, Zhang, Yueting, Zhao, Li, Zhao, Baosheng, Zhao, Zijian, Zhao, Xiaofan, Zhao, Haisheng, Zhao, Xiaoyun, Zheng, Shijie, Zhou, Yupeng, Zhou, Xiaohong, Zhu, Jiahuan, Zhu, Yuxuan, Zhu, Cheng, Zhu, Zhencai, Zorzi, Nicola, Zwart, Frans, den Herder, Jan-Willem A., Nikzad, Shouleh, Nakazawa, Kazuhiro, Zhang, Shuang Nan, Santangelo, Andrea, Xu, Yupeng, Feroci, Marco, Hernanz, Margarita, Lu, Fangjun, Chen, Yong, Feng, Hua, Nandra, Kirpal, Jiang, Weichun, Svoboda, Jiri, Brandt, Søren, Schanne, Stéphane, Zand, Jean, Michalska, Malgorzata, Bozzo, Enrico, Kalemci, Emrah, Agudo, Ivan, Ahangarianabhari, Mahdi, Aitink-Kroes, Gabby, Ambrosi, Giovanni, Ambrosino, Filippo, An, Zhenghua, Perez Torres, Miguel Angel, Antonelli, Matias, Argan, Andrea, Babinec, Viktor, Baldini, Luca, Barbera, Marco, van Baren, Coen, Baudin, David, Bayer, Jörg, Bellazzini, Ronaldo, Bellutti, Pierluigi, Bertucci, Bruna, Bertuccio, Giuseppe, Bi, Xingzi, Boezio, Mirko, Bonvicini, Valter, Bonvicini, Walter, Bordas, Pol, Borghese, Alice, Borghi, Giacomo, Bouyjou, Florent, Bozkurt, Ayhan, Brez, Alessandro, Brienza, Daniele, Cadoux, Franck, Campana, Riccardo, Cao, Jiewei, Cao, Xuelei, Casares, Jorge, Cavazzuti, Elisabetta, Ceraudo, Francesco, Chen, Tianxiang, Chen, Wen, Chen, Can, Chen, Yupeng, Chen, Xin, Chen, Yehai, Chenevez, Jerome, Cheng, Yaodong, Cirrincione, Daniela, Civitani, Marta, Cong, Min, Zelati, Francesco Coti, Cui, Weiwei, Cui, Tao, Cui, Wei, Dai, Boyu, Dauser, Thomas, De Angelis, Nicolas, De Marco, Barbara, De Rosa, Alessandra, Monte, Ettore Del, Cosimo, Sergio Di, Diebold, Sebastian, Dilillo, Giuseppe, Ding, Fei, Dohnal, Roman, Dong, Zefang, Donnarumma, Immacolata, Dovciak, Michal, Du, Yuanyuan, Ducci, Lorenzo, Evangelista, Yuri, Fan, Qingmei, Favre, Yannick, Ferrés, Patrícia, Fiandrini, Emanuele, Ficorella, Francesco, Fuschino, Fabio, Gálvez, José Luis, Gao, Na, Gao, Min, Ge, Yuqiang, Ge, Mingyu, Gevin, Olivier, Grassi, Marco, Gu, Yudong, Gu, Quanying, Guan, Ju, Guedel, Manuel, Han, Xingbo, Han, Dawei, He, Huilin, He, Junwang, Hedderman, Paul, den Herder, Jan Willem, Hong, Bin, Hormaetxe, Ander, Hou, Dongjie, Hu, Zexun, Hu, Hao, Hu, Qingbao, Hu, Yu, Huang, Yue, Huang, Jiangjiang, Huang, Qiushi, Huo, Jia, Hynek, Richard, Iwasawa, Kazumi, Izzo, Lucca, Ji, Long, Jia, Shumei, Jiang, Bowen, Jiang, Wei, Jiang, Jiechen, Jiang, Xiaowei, Jiao, Yang, Jin, Ge, Jin, Fan, Jose, Jordi, Karas, Vladimir, Kennedy, Thomas, Kirsch, Christian, Kole, Merlin, Komarek, Martin, Kreykenbohm, Ingo, Kuiper, Lucien, Kuvvetli, Irfan, Labanti, Claudio, Latronico, Luca, Laubert, Phillip, Li, Tao, Li, Longhui, Li, Hong, Li, Duo, Li, Wei, Li, Maoshun, Li, Gang, Li, Xiaobo, Li, Chengkui, Li, Bing, Li, Haibo, Liang, Hong, Liao, Qiuyan, Liao, Jinyuan, Limousin, Olivier, Lin, Yanjian, Linares, Manuel, Liu, Rui, Liu, Yichen, Liu, Zhihao, Liu, Hongwei, Liu, Xiaojing, Liu, Xiaohua, Cicero, Ugo Lo, Loehring, Jens, Lombardi, Giovanni, Lorenz, Maximilian, Lu, Bing, Lucchesi, Leonardo, Luo, Tao, Luo, Laidan, Ma, Jia, Ma, Xiang, Macera, Daniele, Malcovati, Piero, Manfreda, Alberto, Paredes, Josep Maria, Marinucci, Andrea, Martindale, Adrian, Meidinger, Norbert, Mele, Filippo, Mendes, Vasco, Meng, Bin, Merkl, Martin, Meuris, Aline, Miniutti, Giovanni, Minuti, Massimo, Morbidini, Alfredo, Morgante, Gianluca, Muleri, Fabio, Munini, Riccardo, Mussolin, Lorenzo, Negri, Barbara, Nie, Jianyin, Novák, Petr, Nowosielski, Witold, Nuti, Alessio, Onat, Ahmet, Orleanski, Piotr, Orsini, Leonardo, Ottensamer, Roland, Ou, Ge, Pacciani, Luigi, Paltani, Stephane, Pan, Teng, Pan, Kai, Pareschi, Giovanni, Patruno, Alessandro, Pepponi, Giancarlo, Perinati, Emanuele, Piazzolla, Raffaele, Picciotto, Antonino, Piemonte, Claudio, Pinchera, Michele, Pliego, Samuel, Poutanen, Juri, Qi, Liqiang, Qi, Fazhi, Qiang, Pengfei, Qiao, Fangjian, Qiao, Zheng, Qiu, Xiangbiao, Qiu, Chengbo, Qu, Jinlu, Rachevski, Alexandre, Rashevskaia, Irina, Rea, Nanda, Ribo, Marc, de la Rie, Rob, Rodriguez, Jerome, Gil, Pablo Rodríguez, Sala, Gloria, Schanz, Thomas, Serafinelli, Roberto, Sgro, Carmelo, Shen, Zhengxiang, Sheng, Lizhi, Shi, Jingyan, Sironi, Giorgia, Skup, Konrad, Song, Liming, Song, Zeyu, Song, Jiangbo, Spandre, Gloria, Spiga, Daniele, Su, Yongquan, Sun, Liang, Sungur, Müberra, Svéda, Libor, Tagliaferri, Gianpiero, Tan, Ying, Tao, Lian, Tcherniak, Denis, Tenzer, Chris, Todaro, Michela, Tolos, Laura, Torok, Gabriel, Torres, Diego F., Trois, Alessio, Turhan, Onur, Uttley, Phil, Vacchi, Andrea, Virgilli, Enrico, Vogel, Channah, Walton, Dave, Wang, Jian, Wang, Xianqi, Wang, Bo, Wang, Langping, Wang, Xiaofeng, Wang, Dianlong, Wang, Yusa, Wang, Juan, Wang, Hao, Wang, Ruijie, Wang, Ping, Wang, Lingjun, Wang, Wenshuai, Wang, Tian, Wang, Haoyu, Wang, Zhanshan, Watts, Anna L., Wen, Xiangyang, Wilms, Jörn, Winter, Berend, Wu, Xin, Wu, Chao, Wu, Zhenyu, Wu, Qiong, Wu, Kaiji, Xiong, Hao, Xiong, Shaolin, Xu, Wei, Xu, Zhao, Xu, Jingjing, Xu, Xiongwei, Xue, Jiadai, Yan, Yongqing, Yan, Xingtao, Yang, Xianghui, Yang, Yanji, Yang, Xiongtao, Yang, Sheng, Yang, Jiawei, Yang, Yingquan, Yi, Shuxu, Yu, Yonggao, Yu, Ke, Zampa, Ganluigi, Zampa, Nicola, Zane, Silvia, Zdziarski, Andrzej A., Zhang, Long, Zhang, Shu, Zhang, Wenda, Zhang, Xiaoli, Zhang, Zhen, Zhang, Jiawei, Zhang, Fan, Zhang, Ziliang, Zhang, Dali, Zhang, Honglin, Zhang, Aimei, Zhang, Tong, Zhang, Hongmei, Zhang, Juan, Zhang, Liang, Zhang, Yueting, Zhao, Li, Zhao, Baosheng, Zhao, Zijian, Zhao, Xiaofan, Zhao, Haisheng, Zhao, Xiaoyun, Zheng, Shijie, Zhou, Yupeng, Zhou, Xiaohong, Zhu, Jiahuan, Zhu, Yuxuan, Zhu, Cheng, Zhu, Zhencai, Zorzi, Nicola, and Zwart, Frans

Abstract

The enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry mission (eXTP) is a flagship observatory for X-ray timing, spectroscopy and polarimetry developed by an International Consortium. Thanks to its very large collecting area, good spectral resolution and unprecedented polarimetry capabilities, eXTP will explore the properties of matter and the propagation of light in the most extreme conditions found in the Universe. eXTP will, in addition, be a powerful X-ray observatory. The mission will continuously monitor the X-ray sky, and will enable multiwavelength and multi-messenger studies. The mission is currently in phase B, which will be completed in the middle of 2022.

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2022

8. The Instrument Control Unit processing hardware and software of the Wide Field Monitor on eXTP

Author

den Herder, Jan-Willem A., Nikzad, Shouleh, Nakazawa, Kazuhiro, Kalemci, Emrah, Turhan, Onur, Kuvvetli, Irfan, Schanne, Stéphane, Hernanz, Margarita, Orlean´ski, Piotr, Tenzer, Christopher, Sungur, Müberra, Onat, Ahmet, Bozkurt, Ayhan, Baltacı, M. Akif, Gálvez, Jose L., Brandt, Søren, Skup, Konrad, Tcherniak, Denis, Michalska, Malgosia, den Herder, Jan-Willem A., Nikzad, Shouleh, Nakazawa, Kazuhiro, Kalemci, Emrah, Turhan, Onur, Kuvvetli, Irfan, Schanne, Stéphane, Hernanz, Margarita, Orlean´ski, Piotr, Tenzer, Christopher, Sungur, Müberra, Onat, Ahmet, Bozkurt, Ayhan, Baltacı, M. Akif, Gálvez, Jose L., Brandt, Søren, Skup, Konrad, Tcherniak, Denis, and Michalska, Malgosia

Abstract

The eXTP (enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry) mission is a joint large mission of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and European partners designed to study the state of matter under extreme conditions of density, gravity and magnetism. One of the four major instruments on eXTP is the Wide Field Monitor (WFM) which consist of 3 pairs of coded mask cameras with a total combined Field of View (FoV) of 90×180 degrees at zero response. With its enormous FoV, a source localization accuracy of 1 arcmin and an energy range of 2-50 keV the primary objective of the WFM is to provide triggers for the pointing instruments on the eXTP with less than one day reaction time. Its large area and resolution will be enough to detect state changes in compact objects as well. The WFM instrument is controlled by the Data Handling Unit located inside the Instrument Control Unit. The challenging requirement of broadcasting time and end-position of the triggering event to end-users in 30s necessitates special on-board data processing software (the eXTP burst online trigger, or XBOT), a hardware that can perform such processing and associated control software that would feed the raw data from the cameras into the XBOT and relaying alerts to the on-board data handling unit on the spacecraft side. Moreover, the WFM software performs several tasks related to the science data preparation, telecommand and telemetry management, and control of the cameras utilizing four LEON4 processing cores of E698 PM SoC from OCE Technology. This presentation discusses the details of the processing hardware and the interaction between different software components of the WFM on eXTP.

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2022

9. The Wide Field Monitor onboard the Chinese-European X-ray mission eXTP

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den Herder, Jan-Willem A., Nikzad, Shouleh, Nakazawa, Kazuhiro, Hernanz, Margarita, Brandt, Søren, Zand, Jeanint, Evangelista, Yuri, Meuris, Aline, Tenzer, Chris, Zampa, Gianluigi, Orleanski, Piotr, Kalemci, Emrah, Sungur, Müberra, Schanne, Stéphane, Zwart, Frans, de la Rie, Rob, Laubert, Phillip, van Baren, Coen, Aitink-Kroes, Gabby, Kuiper, Lucien, Bayer, Jörg, Hedderman, Paul, Pliego, Samuel, Xiong, Hao, Campana, Riccardo, del Monte, Ettore, Feroci, Marco, Ceraudo, Francesco, Gevin, Olivier, Kuvvetli, Irfan, Tcherniak, Denis, Skup, Konrad, Michalska, Malgorzata, Nowosielski, Witold, Hormaetxe, Ander, Gálvez, José Luis, Ferrés, Patrícia, Patruno, Alessandro, Bonvicini, Walter, Antonelli, Matias, Boezio, Mirko, Cirrincione, Daniela, Munini, Riccardo, Rachevski, Alexandre, Vacchi, Andrea, Zampa, Nicola, Rashevskaya, Irina, Argan, Andrea, Turhan, Onur, Bozkurt, Ayhan, Onat, Ahmet, Bozzo, Enrico, Santangelo, Andrea, Zhang, Shuang Nan, Lu, Fangjun, Xu, Yupeng, den Herder, Jan-Willem A., Nikzad, Shouleh, Nakazawa, Kazuhiro, Hernanz, Margarita, Brandt, Søren, Zand, Jeanint, Evangelista, Yuri, Meuris, Aline, Tenzer, Chris, Zampa, Gianluigi, Orleanski, Piotr, Kalemci, Emrah, Sungur, Müberra, Schanne, Stéphane, Zwart, Frans, de la Rie, Rob, Laubert, Phillip, van Baren, Coen, Aitink-Kroes, Gabby, Kuiper, Lucien, Bayer, Jörg, Hedderman, Paul, Pliego, Samuel, Xiong, Hao, Campana, Riccardo, del Monte, Ettore, Feroci, Marco, Ceraudo, Francesco, Gevin, Olivier, Kuvvetli, Irfan, Tcherniak, Denis, Skup, Konrad, Michalska, Malgorzata, Nowosielski, Witold, Hormaetxe, Ander, Gálvez, José Luis, Ferrés, Patrícia, Patruno, Alessandro, Bonvicini, Walter, Antonelli, Matias, Boezio, Mirko, Cirrincione, Daniela, Munini, Riccardo, Rachevski, Alexandre, Vacchi, Andrea, Zampa, Nicola, Rashevskaya, Irina, Argan, Andrea, Turhan, Onur, Bozkurt, Ayhan, Onat, Ahmet, Bozzo, Enrico, Santangelo, Andrea, Zhang, Shuang Nan, Lu, Fangjun, and Xu, Yupeng

Abstract

The eXTP (enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry) mission is a major project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), with a large involvement of Europe. The scientific payload of eXTP includes four instruments: the SFA (Spectroscopy Focusing Array) and the PFA (Polarimetry Focusing Array) - led by China - the LAD (Large Area Detector) and the WFM (Wide Field Monitor) - led by Europe (Italy and Spain). They offer a unique simultaneous wide-band X-ray timing and polarimetry sensitivity. The WFM is a wide field X-ray monitor instrument in the 2-50 keV energy range, consisting of an array of six coded mask cameras with a field of view of 180ºx90ºat an angular resolution of 5 arcmin and 4 silicon drift detectors in each camera. Its unprecedented combination of large field of view and imaging down to 2 keV will allow eXTP to make important discoveries of the variable and transient X-ray sky and is essential in detecting transient black holes, that are part of the primary science goals of eXTP, so that they can be promptly followed up with other instruments on eXTP and elsewhere.

Published
2022

10. The STIX Aspect System (SAS): The Optical Aspect System of the Spectrometer/Telescope for Imaging X-Rays (STIX) on Solar Orbiter

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Warmuth, Alexander, Önel, Hakan, Mann, Gottfried, Rendtel, Jürgen, Strassmeier, Klaus G., Denker, Carsten, Hurford, Gordon, Krucker, Säm, Anderson, James, Bauer, Svend M., Bittner, Wilbert, Dionies, Frank, Paschke, Jens, Plüschke, Dennis, Sablowski, Daniel P., Schuller, F., Senthamizh Pavai, V., Woche, Manfred F., Casadei, Diego, Kögl, Stefan, Arnold, Nicolas G., Gröbelbauer, Hans-Peter, Schori, D., Wiehl, Herbert J., Csillaghy, André, Grimm, Oliver, Orleański, Piotr, Skup, Konrad R., Bujwan, Waldemar, and Rutkowski, K.

Subjects
X-ray bursts, spectrum, Instrumentation and data management, Flares, spectrum, Corona, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Physics::Space Physics, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Abstract

The Spectrometer/Telescope for Imaging X-rays (STIX) is a remote sensing instrument on Solar Orbiter that observes the hard X-ray bremsstrahlung emission of solar flares. This paper describes the STIX Aspect System (SAS), a subunit that measures the pointing of STIX relative to the Sun with a precision of ± 4 ″, which is required to accurately localize the reconstructed X-ray images on the Sun. The operating principle of the SAS is based on an optical lens that images the Sun onto a plate that is perforated by small apertures arranged in a cross-shaped configuration of four radial arms. The light passing through the apertures of each arm is detected by a photodiode. Variations of spacecraft pointing and of distance from the Sun cause the solar image to move over different apertures, leading to a modulation of the measured lightcurves. These signals are used by ground analysis to calculate the locations of the solar limb, and hence the pointing of the telescope., Solar Physics, 295 (7), ISSN:0038-0938, ISSN:1573-093X

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2020
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11. Ariel: Enabling planetary science across light-years

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Tinetti, Giovanna, Eccleston, Paul, Haswell, Carole, Lagage, Pierre-Olivier, Leconte, Jérémy, Lüftinger, Theresa, Micela, Giusi, Min, Michel, Pilbratt, Göran, Puig, Ludovic, Swain, Mark, Testi, Leonardo, Turrini, Diego, Vandenbussche, Bart, Osorio, Maria Rosa Zapatero, Aret, Anna, Beaulieu, Jean-Philippe, Buchhave, Lars, Ferus, Martin, Griffin, Matt, Guedel, Manuel, Hartogh, Paul, Machado, Pedro, Malaguti, Giuseppe, Pallé, Enric, Rataj, Mirek, Ray, Tom, Ribas, Ignasi, Szabó, Robert, Tan, Jonathan, Werner, Stephanie, Ratti, Francesco, Scharmberg, Carsten, Salvignol, Jean-Christophe, Boudin, Nathalie, Halain, Jean-Philippe, Haag, Martin, Crouzet, Pierre-Elie, Kohley, Ralf, Symonds, Kate, Renk, Florian, Caldwell, Andrew, Abreu, Manuel, Alonso, Gustavo, Amiaux, Jerome, Berthé, Michel, Bishop, Georgia, Bowles, Neil, Carmona, Manuel, Coffey, Deirdre, Colomé, Josep, Crook, Martin, Désjonqueres, Lucile, Díaz, José J., Drummond, Rachel, Focardi, Mauro, Gómez, Jose M., Holmes, Warren, Krijger, Matthijs, Kovacs, Zsolt, Hunt, Tom, Machado, Richardo, Morgante, Gianluca, Ollivier, Marc, Ottensamer, Roland, Pace, Emanuele, Pagano, Teresa, Pascale, Enzo, Pearson, Chris, Pedersen, Søren Møller, Pniel, Moshe, Roose, Stéphane, Savini, Giorgio, Stamper, Richard, Szirovicza, Peter, Szoke, Janos, Tosh, Ian, Vilardell, Francesc, Barstow, Joanna, Borsato, Luca, Casewell, Sarah, Changeat, Quentin, Charnay, Benjamin, Civiš, Svatopluk, Foresto, Vincent Coudé du, Coustenis, Athena, Cowan, Nicolas, Danielski, Camilla, Demangeon, Olivier, Drossart, Pierre, Edwards, Billy N., Gilli, Gabriella, Encrenaz, Therese, Kiss, Csaba, Kokori, Anastasia, Ikoma, Masahiro, Morales, Juan Carlos, Mendonça, João, Moneti, Andrea, Mugnai, Lorenzo, Muñoz, Antonio García, Helled, Ravit, Kama, Mihkel, Miguel, Yamila, Nikolaou, Nikos, Pagano, Isabella, Panic, Olja, Rengel, Miriam, Rickman, Hans, Rocchetto, Marco, Sarkar, Subhajit, Selsis, Franck, Tennyson, Jonathan, Tsiaras, Angelos, Venot, Olivia, Vida, Krisztián, Waldmann, Ingo P., Yurchenko, Sergey, Szabó, Gyula, Zellem, Rob, Al-Refaie, Ahmed, Alvarez, Javier Perez, Anisman, Lara, Arhancet, Axel, Ateca, Jaume, Baeyens, Robin, Barnes, John R., Bell, Taylor, Benatti, Serena, Biazzo, Katia, Błęcka, Maria, Bonomo, Aldo Stefano, Bosch, José, Bossini, Diego, Bourgalais, Jeremy, Brienza, Daniele, Brucalassi, Anna, Bruno, Giovanni, Caines, Hamish, Calcutt, Simon, Campante, Tiago, Canestrari, Rodolfo, Cann, Nick, Casali, Giada, Casas, Albert, Cassone, Giuseppe, Cara, Christophe, Carone, Ludmila, Carrasco, Nathalie, Chioetto, Paolo, Cortecchia, Fausto, Czupalla, Markus, Chubb, Katy L., Ciaravella, Angela, Claret, Antonio, Claudi, Riccardo, Codella, Claudio, Comas, Maya Garcia, Cracchiolo, Gianluca, Cubillos, Patricio, Peppo, Vania Da, Decin, Leen, Dejabrun, Clemence, Delgado-Mena, Elisa, Giorgio, Anna Di, Diolaiti, Emiliano, Dorn, Caroline, Doublier, Vanessa, Doumayrou, Eric, Dransfield, Georgina, Dumaye, Luc, Dunford, Emma, Escobar, Antonio Jimenez, Eylen, Vincent Van, Farina, Maria, Fedele, Davide, Fernández, Alejandro, Fleury, Benjamin, Fonte, Sergio, Fontignie, Jean, Fossati, Luca, Funke, Bernd, Galy, Camille, Garai, Zoltán, García, Andrés, García-Rigo, Alberto, Garufi, Antonio, Sacco, Giuseppe Germano, Giacobbe, Paolo, Gómez, Alejandro, Gonzalez, Arturo, Gonzalez-Galindo, Francisco, Grassi, Davide, Griffith, Caitlin, Guarcello, Mario Giuseppe, Goujon, Audrey, Gressier, Amélie, Grzegorczyk, Aleksandra, Guillot, Tristan, Guilluy, Gloria, Hargrave, Peter, Hellin, Marie-Laure, Herrero, Enrique, Hills, Matt, Horeau, Benoit, Ito, Yuichi, Jessen, Niels Christian, Kabath, Petr, Kálmán, Szilárd, Kawashima, Yui, Kimura, Tadahiro, Knížek, Antonín, Kreidberg, Laura, Kruid, Ronald, Kruijssen, Diederik J. M., Kubelík, Petr, Lara, Luisa, Lebonnois, Sebastien, Lee, David, Lefevre, Maxence, Lichtenberg, Tim, Locci, Daniele, Lombini, Matteo, Lopez, Alejandro Sanchez, Lorenzani, Andrea, MacDonald, Ryan, Magrini, Laura, Maldonado, Jesus, Marcq, Emmanuel, Migliorini, Alessandra, Modirrousta-Galian, Darius, Molaverdikhani, Karan, Molinari, Sergio, Mollière, Paul, Moreau, Vincent, Morello, Giuseppe, Morinaud, Gilles, Morvan, Mario, Moses, Julianne I., Mouzali, Salima, Nakhjiri, Nariman, Naponiello, Luca, Narita, Norio, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Nikolaou, Athanasia, Noce, Vladimiro, Oliva, Fabrizio, Palladino, Pietro, Papageorgiou, Andreas, Parmentier, Vivien, Peres, Giovanni, Pérez, Javier, Perez-Hoyos, Santiago, Perger, Manuel, Pestellini, Cesare Cecchi, Petralia, Antonino, Philippon, Anne, Piccialli, Arianna, Pignatari, Marco, Piotto, Giampaolo, Podio, Linda, Polenta, Gianluca, Preti, Giampaolo, Pribulla, Theodor, Puertas, Manuel Lopez, Rainer, Monica, Reess, Jean-Michel, Rimmer, Paul, Robert, Séverine, Rosich, Albert, Rossi, Loic, Rust, Duncan, Saleh, Ayman, Sanna, Nicoletta, Schisano, Eugenio, Schreiber, Laura, Schwartz, Victor, Scippa, Antonio, Seli, Bálint, Shibata, Sho, Simpson, Caroline, Shorttle, Oliver, Skaf, N., Skup, Konrad, Sobiecki, Mateusz, Sousa, Sergio, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Šponer, Judit, Steiger, Lukas, Tanga, Paolo, Tackley, Paul, Taylor, Jake, Tecza, Matthias, Terenzi, Luca, Tremblin, Pascal, Tozzi, Andrea, Triaud, Amaury, Trompet, Loïc, Tsai, Shang-Min, Tsantaki, Maria, Valencia, Diana, Vandaele, Ann Carine, Swaelmen, Mathieu Van der, Vardan, Adibekyan, Vasisht, Gautam, Vazan, Allona, Vecchio, Ciro Del, Waltham, Dave, Wawer, Piotr, Widemann, Thomas, Wolkenberg, Paulina, Yip, Gordon Hou, Yung, Yuk, Zilinskas, Mantas, Zingales, Tiziano, Zuppella, Paola, Tinetti, Giovanna, Eccleston, Paul, Haswell, Carole, Lagage, Pierre-Olivier, Leconte, Jérémy, Lüftinger, Theresa, Micela, Giusi, Min, Michel, Pilbratt, Göran, Puig, Ludovic, Swain, Mark, Testi, Leonardo, Turrini, Diego, Vandenbussche, Bart, Osorio, Maria Rosa Zapatero, Aret, Anna, Beaulieu, Jean-Philippe, Buchhave, Lars, Ferus, Martin, Griffin, Matt, Guedel, Manuel, Hartogh, Paul, Machado, Pedro, Malaguti, Giuseppe, Pallé, Enric, Rataj, Mirek, Ray, Tom, Ribas, Ignasi, Szabó, Robert, Tan, Jonathan, Werner, Stephanie, Ratti, Francesco, Scharmberg, Carsten, Salvignol, Jean-Christophe, Boudin, Nathalie, Halain, Jean-Philippe, Haag, Martin, Crouzet, Pierre-Elie, Kohley, Ralf, Symonds, Kate, Renk, Florian, Caldwell, Andrew, Abreu, Manuel, Alonso, Gustavo, Amiaux, Jerome, Berthé, Michel, Bishop, Georgia, Bowles, Neil, Carmona, Manuel, Coffey, Deirdre, Colomé, Josep, Crook, Martin, Désjonqueres, Lucile, Díaz, José J., Drummond, Rachel, Focardi, Mauro, Gómez, Jose M., Holmes, Warren, Krijger, Matthijs, Kovacs, Zsolt, Hunt, Tom, Machado, Richardo, Morgante, Gianluca, Ollivier, Marc, Ottensamer, Roland, Pace, Emanuele, Pagano, Teresa, Pascale, Enzo, Pearson, Chris, Pedersen, Søren Møller, Pniel, Moshe, Roose, Stéphane, Savini, Giorgio, Stamper, Richard, Szirovicza, Peter, Szoke, Janos, Tosh, Ian, Vilardell, Francesc, Barstow, Joanna, Borsato, Luca, Casewell, Sarah, Changeat, Quentin, Charnay, Benjamin, Civiš, Svatopluk, Foresto, Vincent Coudé du, Coustenis, Athena, Cowan, Nicolas, Danielski, Camilla, Demangeon, Olivier, Drossart, Pierre, Edwards, Billy N., Gilli, Gabriella, Encrenaz, Therese, Kiss, Csaba, Kokori, Anastasia, Ikoma, Masahiro, Morales, Juan Carlos, Mendonça, João, Moneti, Andrea, Mugnai, Lorenzo, Muñoz, Antonio García, Helled, Ravit, Kama, Mihkel, Miguel, Yamila, Nikolaou, Nikos, Pagano, Isabella, Panic, Olja, Rengel, Miriam, Rickman, Hans, Rocchetto, Marco, Sarkar, Subhajit, Selsis, Franck, Tennyson, Jonathan, Tsiaras, Angelos, Venot, Olivia, Vida, Krisztián, Waldmann, Ingo P., Yurchenko, Sergey, Szabó, Gyula, Zellem, Rob, Al-Refaie, Ahmed, Alvarez, Javier Perez, Anisman, Lara, Arhancet, Axel, Ateca, Jaume, Baeyens, Robin, Barnes, John R., Bell, Taylor, Benatti, Serena, Biazzo, Katia, Błęcka, Maria, Bonomo, Aldo Stefano, Bosch, José, Bossini, Diego, Bourgalais, Jeremy, Brienza, Daniele, Brucalassi, Anna, Bruno, Giovanni, Caines, Hamish, Calcutt, Simon, Campante, Tiago, Canestrari, Rodolfo, Cann, Nick, Casali, Giada, Casas, Albert, Cassone, Giuseppe, Cara, Christophe, Carone, Ludmila, Carrasco, Nathalie, Chioetto, Paolo, Cortecchia, Fausto, Czupalla, Markus, Chubb, Katy L., Ciaravella, Angela, Claret, Antonio, Claudi, Riccardo, Codella, Claudio, Comas, Maya Garcia, Cracchiolo, Gianluca, Cubillos, Patricio, Peppo, Vania Da, Decin, Leen, Dejabrun, Clemence, Delgado-Mena, Elisa, Giorgio, Anna Di, Diolaiti, Emiliano, Dorn, Caroline, Doublier, Vanessa, Doumayrou, Eric, Dransfield, Georgina, Dumaye, Luc, Dunford, Emma, Escobar, Antonio Jimenez, Eylen, Vincent Van, Farina, Maria, Fedele, Davide, Fernández, Alejandro, Fleury, Benjamin, Fonte, Sergio, Fontignie, Jean, Fossati, Luca, Funke, Bernd, Galy, Camille, Garai, Zoltán, García, Andrés, García-Rigo, Alberto, Garufi, Antonio, Sacco, Giuseppe Germano, Giacobbe, Paolo, Gómez, Alejandro, Gonzalez, Arturo, Gonzalez-Galindo, Francisco, Grassi, Davide, Griffith, Caitlin, Guarcello, Mario Giuseppe, Goujon, Audrey, Gressier, Amélie, Grzegorczyk, Aleksandra, Guillot, Tristan, Guilluy, Gloria, Hargrave, Peter, Hellin, Marie-Laure, Herrero, Enrique, Hills, Matt, Horeau, Benoit, Ito, Yuichi, Jessen, Niels Christian, Kabath, Petr, Kálmán, Szilárd, Kawashima, Yui, Kimura, Tadahiro, Knížek, Antonín, Kreidberg, Laura, Kruid, Ronald, Kruijssen, Diederik J. M., Kubelík, Petr, Lara, Luisa, Lebonnois, Sebastien, Lee, David, Lefevre, Maxence, Lichtenberg, Tim, Locci, Daniele, Lombini, Matteo, Lopez, Alejandro Sanchez, Lorenzani, Andrea, MacDonald, Ryan, Magrini, Laura, Maldonado, Jesus, Marcq, Emmanuel, Migliorini, Alessandra, Modirrousta-Galian, Darius, Molaverdikhani, Karan, Molinari, Sergio, Mollière, Paul, Moreau, Vincent, Morello, Giuseppe, Morinaud, Gilles, Morvan, Mario, Moses, Julianne I., Mouzali, Salima, Nakhjiri, Nariman, Naponiello, Luca, Narita, Norio, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Nikolaou, Athanasia, Noce, Vladimiro, Oliva, Fabrizio, Palladino, Pietro, Papageorgiou, Andreas, Parmentier, Vivien, Peres, Giovanni, Pérez, Javier, Perez-Hoyos, Santiago, Perger, Manuel, Pestellini, Cesare Cecchi, Petralia, Antonino, Philippon, Anne, Piccialli, Arianna, Pignatari, Marco, Piotto, Giampaolo, Podio, Linda, Polenta, Gianluca, Preti, Giampaolo, Pribulla, Theodor, Puertas, Manuel Lopez, Rainer, Monica, Reess, Jean-Michel, Rimmer, Paul, Robert, Séverine, Rosich, Albert, Rossi, Loic, Rust, Duncan, Saleh, Ayman, Sanna, Nicoletta, Schisano, Eugenio, Schreiber, Laura, Schwartz, Victor, Scippa, Antonio, Seli, Bálint, Shibata, Sho, Simpson, Caroline, Shorttle, Oliver, Skaf, N., Skup, Konrad, Sobiecki, Mateusz, Sousa, Sergio, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Šponer, Judit, Steiger, Lukas, Tanga, Paolo, Tackley, Paul, Taylor, Jake, Tecza, Matthias, Terenzi, Luca, Tremblin, Pascal, Tozzi, Andrea, Triaud, Amaury, Trompet, Loïc, Tsai, Shang-Min, Tsantaki, Maria, Valencia, Diana, Vandaele, Ann Carine, Swaelmen, Mathieu Van der, Vardan, Adibekyan, Vasisht, Gautam, Vazan, Allona, Vecchio, Ciro Del, Waltham, Dave, Wawer, Piotr, Widemann, Thomas, Wolkenberg, Paulina, Yip, Gordon Hou, Yung, Yuk, Zilinskas, Mantas, Zingales, Tiziano, and Zuppella, Paola

Abstract

The concept of a mission devoted to atmospheric characterization of exoplanets through transit spectroscopy was first considered in Europe in 2007, shortly after the DARWIN proposal submitted to ESA for the first Cosmic Vision call for L-class missions was rejected because of the need for further scientific and technical developments. Following the decision, both ESA (EP-RAT panel report, October 2010) and the Exoplanetary Community (Blue Dot Team – Barcelona conference, September 2009) started a discussion to define a roadmap for exoplanetary research. Both groups concluded that an intermediate step was needed, both scientifically and technically, before the characterisation of Earth-like planets could be tackled, and recommended a transit spectroscopy mission as a first step to atmospheric characterisation. A short study was undertaken at ESTEC in the context of the ExoPlanet Roadmap Advisory Team mandate under the name ESM (Exoplanet Spectroscopy Mission). Following this study the Exoplanet Characterisation Observatory (EChO) was proposed and accepted for assessment phase study in the context of the ESA Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 programme M3 medium class mission opportunity. Although eventually not selected, the EChO study1 allowed further development of the technical building blocks and the science case for an eventual transit spectroscopy mission. In response to the call for the next medium class opportunity, Cosmic Vision M4, a proposal was submitted in January 2015: the Atmospheric Remote-sensing InfraRed Large-survey (ARIEL). The mission was one of the three selected in June 2015 for study in a Phase 0/A, a competitive assessment phase2. ARIEL was eventually selected as M4 in March 2018, and went into Phase B1, the definition study phase. The name of the mission has been changed to Ariel after selection. During Phase B1, the science case was studied in depth and consolidated under auspices of the Science Advisory Team, the bulk of the work be

Published
2020

12. A chemical survey of exoplanets with ARIEL

Author

Tinetti, Giovanna, Drossart, Pierre, Eccleston, Paul, Hartogh, Paul, Heske, Astrid, Leconte, J., Micela, Giusi, Ollivier, Marc, Pilbratt, Göran, Puig, Ludovic, Turrini, Diego, Vandenbussche, Bart, Wolkenberg, Paulina, Beaulieu, Jean-Philippe, Buchave, Lars A., Ferus, Martin, Griffin, Matt, Guedel, Manuel, Justtanont, Kay, Lagage, Pierre-Olivier, Machado, Pedro, Malaguti, Giuseppe, Min, Michiel, Nørgaard-Nielsen, Hans Ulrik, Rataj, Mirek, Ray, Tom, Ribas, Ignasi, Swain, Mark, Szabo, Robert, Werner, Stephanie, Barstow, Joanna, Burleigh, Matt, Cho, James, Du Foresto, Vincent Coudé, Coustenis, Athena, Decin, Leen, Encrenaz, Thérèse, Galand, Marina, Gillon, Michael, Helled, Ravit, Morales, Juan Carlos, Muñoz, Antonio García, Moneti, Andrea, Pagano, Isabella, Pascale, Enzo, Piccioni, Giuseppe, Pinfield, David, Sarkar, Subhajit, Selsis, Franck, Tennyson, Jonathan, Triaud, Amaury, Venot, Olivia, Waldmann, Ingo, Waltham, David, Wright, Gillian, Amiaux, Jerome, Auguères, Jean-Louis, Berthé, Michel, Bezawada, Naidu, Bishop, Georgia, Bowles, Neil, Coffey, Deirdre, Colomé, Josep, Crook, Martin, Crouzet, Pierre-Elie, Da Peppo, Vania, Sanz, Isabel Escudero, Focardi, Mauro, Frericks, Martin, Hunt, Tom, Kohley, Ralf, Middleton, Kevin, Morgante, Gianluca, Ottensamer, Roland, Pace, Emanuele, Pearson, Chris, Stamper, Richard, Symonds, Kate, Rengel, Miriam, Renotte, Etienne, Ade, Peter, Affer, Laura, Alard, Christophe, Allard, Nicole, Altieri, Francesca, André, Yves, Arena, Claudio, Argyriou, Ioannis, Aylward, Alan, Baccani, Cristian, Bakos, Gaspar, Banaszkiewicz, Marek, Barlow, Mike, Batista, Virginie, Bellucci, Giancarlo, Benatti, Serena, Bernardi, Pernelle, Bézard, Bruno, Blecka, Maria, Bolmont, Emeline, Bonfond, Bertrand, Bonito, Rosaria, Bonomo, Aldo S., Brucato, John Robert, Brun, Allan Sacha, Bryson, Ian, Bujwan, Waldemar, Casewell, Sarah, Charnay, Benjamin, Pestellini, Cesare Cecchi, Chen, Guo, Ciaravella, Angela, Claudi, Riccardo, Clédassou, Rodolphe, Damasso, Mario, Damiano, Mario, Danielski, Camilla, Deroo, Pieter, Di Giorgio, Anna Maria, Dominik, Carsten, Doublier, Vanessa, Doyle, Simon, Doyon, Rene, Drummond, Benjamin, Duong, Bastien, Eales, Stephen, Edwards, Billy, Farina, Maria, Flaccomio, Ettore, Fletcher, Leigh, Forget, François, Fossey, Steve, Fränz, Markus, Fujii, Yuka, García-Piquer, Álvaro, Gear, Walter, Geoffray, Hervé, Gérard, Jean Claude, Gesa, Lluis, Gomez, H., Graczyk, Rafał, Griffith, Caitlin, Grodent, Denis, Guarcello, Mario Giuseppe, Gustin, Jacques, Hamano, Keiko, Hargrave, Peter, Hello, Yann, Heng, Kevin, Herrero, Enrique, Hornstrup, Allan, Hubert, Benoît, Ida, Shigeru, Ikoma, Masahiro, Iro, Nicolas, Irwin, Patrick, Jarchow, Christopher, Jaubert, Jean, Jones, Hugh, Julien, Queyrel, Kameda, Shingo, Kerschbaum, Franz, Kervella, Pierre, Koskinen, Tommi, Krijger, Matthijs, Krupp, Norbert, Lafarga, Marina, Landini, Federico, Lellouch, Emmanuel, Leto, Giuseppe, Luntzer, A., Rank-Lüftinger, Theresa, Maggio, Antonio, Maldonado, Jesus, Maillard, Jean-Pierre, Mall, Urs, Marquette, J.-B., Mathis, Stéphane, Maxted, Pierre, Matsuo, Taro, Medvedev, Alexander, Miguel, Yamila, Minier, Vincent, Morello, Giuseppe, Mura, Alessandro, Narita, Norio, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Nguyen Tong, N., Noce, Vladimiro, Oliva, Fabrizio, Palle, Enric, Palmer, Paul, Pancrazzi, Maurizio, Papageorgiou, Andreas, Parmentier, Vivien, Perger, Manuel, Petralia, Antonino, Pezzuto, Stefano, Pierrehumbert, Ray, Pillitteri, Ignazio, Piotto, Giampaolo, Pisano, Giampaolo, Prisinzano, Loredana, Radioti, Aikaterini, Reess, Jean-Michel, Rezac, Ladislav, Rocchetto, Marco, Rosich, Albert, Sanna, Nicoletta, Santerne, Alexandre, Savini, Giorgio, Scandariato, Gaetano, Sicardy, Bruno, Sierra, Carles, Sindoni, Giuseppe, Skup, Konrad, Snellen, Ignas, Sobiecki, Mateusz, Soret, Lauriane, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Stiepen, Arnaud, Strugarek, Antoine, Taylor, Jake, Taylor, William, Terenzi, Luca, Tessenyi, Marcell, Tsiaras, Angelos, Tucker, C., Valencia, Diana, Vasisht, Gautam, Vazan, Allona, Vilardell, Francesc, Vinatier, Sandrine, Viti, Serena, Waters, Rens, Wawer, Piotr, Wawrzaszek, Anna, Whitworth, Anthony, Yung, Yuk L., Yurchenko, Sergey N., Osorio, María Rosa Zapatero, Zellem, Robert, Zingales, Tiziano, Zwart, Frans, Wolkenberg, Paul, Beaulieu, Jean, Buchave, A., Lagage, Pierre, Ray, Ray, Ribas, Ignas, du Foresto, Vincent, Muñoz, Antonio, Auguères, Jean, Crouzet, Pierre, Pace, Emanuel, Altieri, Francesc, Claudi, Claudio, Brun, Bruno, Bonomo, Aldo, Brucato, Robert, Brun, Allan, Di Giorgio, Anna, Fujii, Yuk, Gérard, Jean, Guarcello, Giuseppe, Maillard, Pierre, Yung, Yuk, Yurchenko, Sergey, Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), University College of London [London] (UCL), Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA (UMR_8109)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, ECLIPSE 2018, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux [Pessac] (LAB), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo (OAPa), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon (IGFL), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon), University of Valencia, Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario (IFSI), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Space Research Centre of Polish Academy of Sciences (CBK), Polska Akademia Nauk = Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences [Prague] (CAS), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Department of Genetics [Cambridge], University of Cambridge [UK] (CAM), Dpto. de Organización de Empresas, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Industrial de Barcelona, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya [Barcelona] (UPC), University of California, University of California [Davis] (UC Davis), University of California-University of California, Institute of Astronomy [Leuven], Catholic University of Leuven - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), Institut d'Astrophysique et de Géophysique [Liège], Université de Liège, Department of Earth and Space Sciences [Los Angeles], University of California [Los Angeles] (UCLA), Instituto de Investigaciones Químicas, CSIC, Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali - 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2019) (UNS), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS), Università degli studi di Verona = University of Verona (UNIVR), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Université de Montpellier (UM), PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Polska Akademia Nauk (PAN), Czech Academy of Sciences [Prague] (ASCR), Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Tsinghua University [Beijing], Université de Montréal [Montréal], École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Florida [Gainesville], Maintenance myélinique et neuropathies périphériques (MMNP), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Università degli Studi di Verona, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Universidad de Málaga [Málaga], BioWooEB (Cirad-Persyst-UPR 114 BioWooEB), Département Performances des systèmes de production et de transformation tropicaux (Cirad-PERSYST), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad), University of Zurich, Tinetti, Giovanna, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - 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Subjects
Solar System, STELLAR ACTIVITY, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, [SDU.ASTR.EP]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP], 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Space missions, Astrobiology, Planet, QB460, TRANSMISSION SPECTRUM, Transit (astronomy), TRANSITING EXOPLANETS, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, QC, Eclipse, QB, Super-Earth, 520 Astronomy, Exoplanets, Exoplanet, BROWN DWARF, IR spectroscopy, Spacemissions, Physical Sciences, 3103 Astronomy and Astrophysics, VALIDATED PLANETS, Molecular signatures, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, JUPITER EXOPLANETS, 530 Physics, Gas giant, Brown dwarf, SUPER-EARTH, Astronomy & Astrophysics, EXTRASOLAR GIANT PLANETS, INFRARED-EMISSION-SPECTRUM, 1912 Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, QB600, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Science & Technology, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 500 Science, 0201 Astronomical And Space Sciences, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, 10231 Institute for Computational Science, SPACE-BASED PHOTOMETRY
Abstract

Thousands of exoplanets have now been discovered with a huge range of masses, sizes and orbits: from rocky Earth-like planets to large gas giants grazing the surface of their host star. However, the essential nature of these exoplanets remains largely mysterious: there is no known, discernible pattern linking the presence, size, or orbital parameters of a planet to the nature of its parent star. We have little idea whether the chemistry of a planet is linked to its formation environment, or whether the type of host star drives the physics and chemistry of the planet’s birth, and evolution. The Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey (ARIEL) has been selected by the European Space Agency as the next mediumclass science mission, M4, to address these scientific questions. ARIEL was conceived to observe a large number (~1000) of transiting planets for statistical understanding, including gas giants, Neptunes, super-Earths and Earth-size planets around a range of host star types using transit spectroscopy in the 1.25-7.8 μm spectral range and multiple narrow-band photometry in the optical. ARIEL will focus on warm and hot planets to take advantage of their well-mixed atmospheres which should show minimal condensation and sequestration of high-Z materials compared to their colder Solar System siblings. Said warm and hot atmospheres are expected to be more representative of the planetary bulk composition. Observations of these warm/hot exoplanets, and in particular of their elemental composition (especially C, O, N, S, Si), will allow the understanding of the early stages of planetary and atmospheric formation during the nebular phase and the following few million years. ARIEL will thus provide a representative picture of the chemical nature of the exoplanets and relate this directly to the type and chemical environment of the host star. ARIEL is designed as a dedicated survey mission for combined-light spectroscopy, capable of observing a large and well-defined planet sample within its 4-year mission lifetime. Transit, eclipse and phase-curve spectroscopy methods, whereby the signal from the star and planet are differentiated using knowledge of the planetary ephemerides, allow us to measure atmospheric signals from the planet at levels of 10-100 part per million (ppm) relative to the star and, given the bright nature of targets, also allows more sophisticated techniques, such as eclipse mapping, to give a deeper insight into the nature of the atmosphere. These types of observations require a stable payload and satellite platform with broad, instantaneous wavelength coverage to detect many molecular species, probe the thermal structure, identify clouds and monitor the stellar activity. The wavelength range proposed covers all the expected major atmospheric gases from e.g. H2O, CO2, CH4 NH3, HCN, H2S through to the more exotic metallic compounds, such as TiO, VO, and condensed species. Simulations of ARIEL performance in conducting exoplanet surveys have been performed – using conservative estimates of mission performance and a full model of all significant noise sources in the measurement – using a list of potential ARIEL targets that incorporates the latest available exoplanet statistics. The conclusion at the end of the Phase A study, is that ARIEL – in line with the stated mission objectives – will be able to observe about 1000 exoplanets depending on the details of the adopted survey strategy, thus confirming the feasibility of the main science objectives.

Published
2018

13. WFI electronics and on-board data processing

Author

den Herder, Jan-Willem A., Takahashi, Tadayuki, Bautz, Marshall, Plattner, Markus, Albrecht, Sebastian, Bayer, Jörg, Brandt, Søren, Drumm, Paul, Hälker, Olaf, Kerschbaum, Franz, Koch, Anna, Kuvvetli, Irfan, Meidinger, Norbert, Ott, Sabine, Ottensamer, Roland, Reiffers, Jonas, Schanz, Thomas, Skup, Konrad, Steller, Manfred, Tenzer, Chris, Thomas, Chris, den Herder, Jan-Willem A., Takahashi, Tadayuki, Bautz, Marshall, Plattner, Markus, Albrecht, Sebastian, Bayer, Jörg, Brandt, Søren, Drumm, Paul, Hälker, Olaf, Kerschbaum, Franz, Koch, Anna, Kuvvetli, Irfan, Meidinger, Norbert, Ott, Sabine, Ottensamer, Roland, Reiffers, Jonas, Schanz, Thomas, Skup, Konrad, Steller, Manfred, Tenzer, Chris, and Thomas, Chris

Published
2016

14. An adaptive digital controller for satellite medium power DC/DC converter

Author

Skup, Konrad R., Grudziński, Paweł, and Orleański, Orleański

Subjects
CCM, DCM, DC/DC switching converter, VHDL, adaptive control, digital control, FPGA, digital current mode
Abstract

In this paper the work concerning an adaptive digital controller for satellite medium power DC/DC converters is presented. The adaptive techniques and methods developed in Space Research Centre allows an implemented in VHDL controller to modify its parameters according to detected changes in operating conditions. Inductor entering from discontinuous to continuous current mode and vice versa or moving sampling instants due to changes in duty time are good examples of varying operation conditions. The paper describes these methods based on 750 buck converter equipped with designed digital controller.

Published
2011

15. Motion control for mobile robots

Author

Skup, Konrad R.

Subjects
PXMC, Teknik, Technology, motion, H8S/2638 Microcontroller, control, documentation, brushless motors
Abstract

This diploma thesis is focused on brushless DC motors, how they work and how to control them using phase tables. It describes the internals of existing motion control library (PXMC) and provides documentation of its elements, which were published under GPL license. Additionally it presents extensions of PXMC library, which were made to control two brushless motors with help of Renesas’ H8S/2638 microcontroller. It introduces a modularization of PXMC and software for hall sensor table and index mark detection. The target application is a mobile robot for Eurobot competition. Validerat; 20101217 (root)

Published
2007

16. The ARIEL payload: A technical overview

Author

Eccleston, Paul, Drummond, Rachel, Middleton, Kevin, Bishop, Georgia, Caldwell, Andrew, Desjonqueres, Lucile, Tosh, Ian, Cann, Nick, Crook, Martin, Hills, Matthew, Pearson, Chris, Simpson, Caroline, Stamper, Richard, Tinetti, Giovanna, Pascale, Enzo, Swain, Mark, Holmes, Warren A., Wong, Andre, Puig, Ludovic, Pilbratt, Göran, Linder, Martin, Boudin, Nathalie, Ertel, Hanno, Gambicorti, Lisa, Halain, Jean-Philippe, Pace, Emanuele, Vilardell, Francesc, Gómez, José M., Colomé, Josep, Amiaux, Jérôme, Cara, Christophe, Berthé, Michel, Moreau, Vincent, Morgante, Gianluca, Malaguti, Giuseppe, Alonso, Gustavo, Álvarez, Javier P., Ollivier, Marc, Philippon, Anne, Hellin, Marie-Laure, Roose, Steve, Frericks, Martin, Krijger, Matthijs, Rataj, Miroslaw, Wawer, Piotr, Skup, Konrad, Sobiecki, Mateusz, Jessen, Niels Christian, Pedersen, Søren Møller, Hargrave, Peter, Griffin, Matt, Ottensamer, Roland, Hunt, Thomas, Rust, Duncan, Saleh, Aymen, Winter, Berend, Focardi, Mauro, Da Deppo, Vania, Zuppella, Paola, Czupalla, Markus, Lystrup, Makenzie, Batalha, Natalie, Tong, Edward C., Siegler, Nicholas, Perrin, Marshall D., Eccleston, Paul, Drummond, Rachel, Middleton, Kevin, Bishop, Georgia, Caldwell, Andrew, Desjonqueres, Lucile, Tosh, Ian, Cann, Nick, Crook, Martin, Hills, Matthew, Pearson, Chris, Simpson, Caroline, Stamper, Richard, Tinetti, Giovanna, Pascale, Enzo, Swain, Mark, Holmes, Warren A., Wong, Andre, Puig, Ludovic, Pilbratt, Göran, Linder, Martin, Boudin, Nathalie, Ertel, Hanno, Gambicorti, Lisa, Halain, Jean-Philippe, Pace, Emanuele, Vilardell, Francesc, Gómez, José M., Colomé, Josep, Amiaux, Jérôme, Cara, Christophe, Berthé, Michel, Moreau, Vincent, Morgante, Gianluca, Malaguti, Giuseppe, Alonso, Gustavo, Álvarez, Javier P., Ollivier, Marc, Philippon, Anne, Hellin, Marie-Laure, Roose, Steve, Frericks, Martin, Krijger, Matthijs, Rataj, Miroslaw, Wawer, Piotr, Skup, Konrad, Sobiecki, Mateusz, Jessen, Niels Christian, Pedersen, Søren Møller, Hargrave, Peter, Griffin, Matt, Ottensamer, Roland, Hunt, Thomas, Rust, Duncan, Saleh, Aymen, Winter, Berend, Focardi, Mauro, Da Deppo, Vania, Zuppella, Paola, Czupalla, Markus, Lystrup, Makenzie, Batalha, Natalie, Tong, Edward C., Siegler, Nicholas, and Perrin, Marshall D.

Abstract

The Atmospheric Remote-Sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey, ARIEL, has been selected to be the next (M4) medium class space mission in the ESA Cosmic Vision programme. From launch in 2028, and during the following 4 years of operation, ARIEL will perform precise spectroscopy of the atmospheres of ~1000 known transiting exoplanets using its metre-class telescope. A three-band photometer and three spectrometers cover the 0.5 µm to 7.8 µm region of the electromagnetic spectrum. This paper gives an overview of the mission payload, including the telescope assembly, the FGS (Fine Guidance System) - which provides both pointing information to the spacecraft and scientific photometry and low-resolution spectrometer data, the ARIEL InfraRed Spectrometer (AIRS), and other payload infrastructure such as the warm electronics, structures and cryogenic cooling systems.

17. The Athena X-ray Integral Field Unit: a consolidated design for the system requirement review of the preliminary definition phase

Author

Didier Barret, Vincent Albouys, Jan-Willem den Herder, Luigi Piro, Massimo Cappi, Juhani Huovelin, Richard Kelley, J. Miguel Mas-Hesse, Stéphane Paltani, Gregor Rauw, Agata Rozanska, Jiri Svoboda, Joern Wilms, Noriko Yamasaki, Marc Audard, Simon Bandler, Marco Barbera, Xavier Barcons, Enrico Bozzo, Maria Teresa Ceballos, Ivan Charles, Elisa Costantini, Thomas Dauser, Anne Decourchelle, Lionel Duband, Jean-Marc Duval, Fabrizio Fiore, Flavio Gatti, Andrea Goldwurm, Roland den Hartog, Brian Jackson, Peter Jonker, Caroline Kilbourne, Seppo Korpela, Claudio Macculi, Mariano Mendez, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Silvano Molendi, François Pajot, Etienne Pointecouteau, Frederick Porter, Gabriel W. Pratt, Damien Prêle, Laurent Ravera, Kosuke Sato, Joop Schaye, Keisuke Shinozaki, Konrad Skup, Jan Soucek, Tanguy Thibert, Jacco Vink, Natalie Webb, Laurence Chaoul, Desi Raulin, Aurora Simionescu, Jose Miguel Torrejon, Fabio Acero, Graziella Branduardi-Raymont, Stefano Ettori, Alexis Finoguenov, Nicolas Grosso, Jelle Kaastra, Pasquale Mazzotta, Jon Miller, Giovanni Miniutti, Fabrizio Nicastro, Salvatore Sciortino, Hiroya Yamaguchi, Sophie Beaumont, Edoardo Cucchetti, Matteo D’Andrea, Megan Eckart, Philippe Ferrando, Elias Kammoun, Simone Lotti, Jean-Michel Mesnager, Lorenzo Natalucci, Philippe Peille, Jelle de Plaa, Florence Ardellier, Andrea Argan, Elise Bellouard, Jérôme Carron, Elisabetta Cavazzuti, Mauro Fiorini, Pourya Khosropanah, Sylvain Martin, James Perry, Frederic Pinsard, Alice Pradines, Manuela Rigano, Peter Roelfsema, Denis Schwander, Guido Torrioli, Joel Ullom, Isabel Vera, Eduardo Medinaceli Villegas, Monika Zuchniak, Frank Brachet, Ugo Lo Cicero, William Doriese, Malcom Durkin, Valentina Fioretti, Hervé Geoffray, Lionel Jacques, Christian Kirsch, Stephen Smith, Joseph Adams, Emilie Gloaguen, Ruud Hoogeveen, Paul van der Hulst, Mikko Kiviranta, Jan van der Kuur, Aurélien Ledot, Bert-Joost van Leeuwen, Dennis van Loon, Bertrand Lyautey, Yann Parot, Kazuhiro Sakai, Henk van Weers, Shariefa Abdoelkariem, Thomas Adam, Christophe Adami, Corinne Aicardi, Hiroki Akamatsu, Pablo Eleazar Merino Alonso, Roberta Amato, Jérôme André, Matteo Angelinelli, Manuel Anon-Cancela, Shebli Anvar, Ricardo Atienza, Anthony Attard, Natalia Auricchio, Ana Balado, Florian Bancel, Lorenzo Ferrari Barusso, Arturo Bascuñan, Vivian Bernard, Alicia Berrocal, Sylvie Blin, Donata Bonino, François Bonnet, Patrick Bonny, Peter Boorman, Charles Boreux, Ayoub Bounab, Martin Boutelier, Kevin Boyce, Daniele Brienza, Marcel Bruijn, Andrea Bulgarelli, Simona Calarco, Paul Callanan, Alberto Prada Campello, Thierry Camus, Florent Canourgues, Vito Capobianco, Nicolas Cardiel, Florent Castellani, Oscar Cheatom, James Chervenak, Fabio Chiarello, Laurent Clerc, Nicolas Clerc, Beatriz Cobo, Odile Coeur-Joly, Alexis Coleiro, Stéphane Colonges, Leonardo Corcione, Mickael Coriat, Alexandre Coynel, Francesco Cuttaia, Antonino D’Ai, Fabio D’anca, Mauro Dadina, Christophe Daniel, Lea Dauner, Natalie DeNigris, Johannes Dercksen, Michael DiPirro, Eric Doumayrou, Luc Dubbeldam, Michel Dupieux, Simon Dupourqué, Jean Louis Durand, Dominique Eckert, Valvanera Eiriz, Eric Ercolani, Christophe Etcheverry, Fred Finkbeiner, Mariateresa Fiocchi, Hervé Fossecave, Philippe Franssen, Martin Frericks, Stefano Gabici, Florent Gant, Jian-Rong Gao, Fabio Gastaldello, Ludovic Genolet, Simona Ghizzardi, Ma Angeles Alcacera Gil, Elisa Giovannini, Olivier Godet, Javier Gomez-Elvira, Raoul Gonzalez, Manuel Gonzalez, Luciano Gottardi, Dolorès Granat, Michel Gros, Nicolas Guignard, Paul Hieltjes, Adolfo Jesús Hurtado, Kent Irwin, Christian Jacquey, Agnieszka Janiuk, Jean Jaubert, Maria Jiménez, Antoine Jolly, Thierry Jourdan, Sabine Julien, Bartosz Kedziora, Andrew Korb, Ingo Kreykenbohm, Ole König, Mathieu Langer, Philippe Laudet, Philippe Laurent, Monica Laurenza, Jean Lesrel, Sebastiano Ligori, Maximilian Lorenz, Alfredo Luminari, Bruno Maffei, Océane Maisonnave, Lorenzo Marelli, Didier Massonet, Irwin Maussang, Alejandro Gonzalo Melchor, Isabelle Le Mer, Francisco Javier San Millan, Jean-Pierre Millerioux, Teresa Mineo, Gabriele Minervini, Alexeï Molin, David Monestes, Nicola Montinaro, Baptiste Mot, David Murat, Kenichiro Nagayoshi, Yaël Nazé, Loïc Noguès, Damien Pailot, Francesca Panessa, Luigi Parodi, Pascal Petit, Enrico Piconcelli, Ciro Pinto, Jose Miguel Encinas Plaza, Borja Plaza, David Poyatos, Thomas Prouvé, Andy Ptak, Simonetta Puccetti, Elena Puccio, Pascale Ramon, Manuel Reina, Guillaume Rioland, Louis Rodriguez, Anton Roig, Bertrand Rollet, Mauro Roncarelli, Gilles Roudil, Tomasz Rudnicki, Julien Sanisidro, Luisa Sciortino, Vitor Silva, Michael Sordet, Javier Soto-Aguilar, Pierre Spizzi, Christian Surace, Miguel Fernández Sánchez, Emanuele Taralli, Guilhem Terrasa, Régis Terrier, Michela Todaro, Pietro Ubertini, Michela Uslenghi, Jan Geralt Bij de Vaate, Davide Vaccaro, Salvatore Varisco, Peggy Varnière, Laurent Vibert, María Vidriales, Fabrizio Villa, Boris Martin Vodopivec, Angela Volpe, Cor de Vries, Nicholas Wakeham, Gavin Walmsley, Michael Wise, Martin de Wit, Grzegorz Woźniak, Barret, Didier, Albouys, Vincent, Herder, Jan-Willem den, Piro, Luigi, Cappi, Massimo, Huovelin, Juhani, Kelley, Richard, Mas-Hesse, J. Miguel, Paltani, Stéphane, Rauw, Gregor, Rozanska, Agata, Svoboda, Jiri, Wilms, Joern, Yamasaki, Noriko, Audard, Marc, Bandler, Simon, Barbera, Marco, Barcons, Xavier, Bozzo, Enrico, Ceballos, Maria Teresa, Charles, Ivan, Costantini, Elisa, Dauser, Thoma, Decourchelle, Anne, Duband, Lionel, Duval, Jean-Marc, Fiore, Fabrizio, Gatti, Flavio, Goldwurm, Andrea, Hartog, Roland den, Jackson, Brian, Jonker, Peter, Kilbourne, Caroline, Korpela, Seppo, Macculi, Claudio, Mendez, Mariano, Mitsuda, Kazuhisa, Molendi, Silvano, Pajot, Françoi, Pointecouteau, Etienne, Porter, Frederick, Pratt, Gabriel W., Prêle, Damien, Ravera, Laurent, Sato, Kosuke, Schaye, Joop, Shinozaki, Keisuke, Skup, Konrad, Soucek, Jan, Thibert, Tanguy, Vink, Jacco, Webb, Natalie, Chaoul, Laurence, Raulin, Desi, Simionescu, Aurora, Torrejon, Jose Miguel, Acero, Fabio, Branduardi-Raymont, Graziella, Ettori, Stefano, Finoguenov, Alexi, Grosso, Nicola, Kaastra, Jelle, Mazzotta, Pasquale, Miller, Jon, Miniutti, Giovanni, Nicastro, Fabrizio, Sciortino, Salvatore, Yamaguchi, Hiroya, Beaumont, Sophie, Cucchetti, Edoardo, D’Andrea, Matteo, Eckart, Megan, Ferrando, Philippe, Kammoun, Elia, Lotti, Simone, Mesnager, Jean-Michel, Natalucci, Lorenzo, Peille, Philippe, de Plaa, Jelle, Ardellier, Florence, Argan, Andrea, Bellouard, Elise, Carron, Jérôme, Cavazzuti, Elisabetta, Fiorini, Mauro, Khosropanah, Pourya, Martin, Sylvain, Perry, Jame, Pinsard, Frederic, Pradines, Alice, Rigano, Manuela, Roelfsema, Peter, Schwander, Deni, Torrioli, Guido, Ullom, Joel, Vera, Isabel, Villegas, Eduardo Medinaceli, Zuchniak, Monika, Brachet, Frank, Cicero, Ugo Lo, Doriese, William, Durkin, Malcom, Fioretti, Valentina, Geoffray, Hervé, Jacques, Lionel, Kirsch, Christian, Smith, Stephen, Adams, Joseph, Gloaguen, Emilie, Hoogeveen, Ruud, van der Hulst, Paul, Kiviranta, Mikko, van der Kuur, Jan, Ledot, Aurélien, van Leeuwen, Bert-Joost, van Loon, Denni, Lyautey, Bertrand, Parot, Yann, Sakai, Kazuhiro, van Weers, Henk, Abdoelkariem, Shariefa, Adam, Thoma, Adami, Christophe, Aicardi, Corinne, Akamatsu, Hiroki, Alonso, Pablo Eleazar Merino, Amato, Roberta, André, Jérôme, Angelinelli, Matteo, Anon-Cancela, Manuel, Anvar, Shebli, Atienza, Ricardo, Attard, Anthony, Auricchio, Natalia, Balado, Ana, Bancel, Florian, Barusso, Lorenzo Ferrari, Bascuñan, Arturo, Bernard, Vivian, Berrocal, Alicia, Blin, Sylvie, Bonino, Donata, Bonnet, Françoi, Bonny, Patrick, Boorman, Peter, Boreux, Charle, Bounab, Ayoub, Boutelier, Martin, Boyce, Kevin, Brienza, Daniele, Bruijn, Marcel, Bulgarelli, Andrea, Calarco, Simona, Callanan, Paul, Campello, Alberto Prada, Camus, Thierry, Canourgues, Florent, Capobianco, Vito, Cardiel, Nicola, Castellani, Florent, Cheatom, Oscar, Chervenak, Jame, Chiarello, Fabio, Clerc, Laurent, Clerc, Nicola, Cobo, Beatriz, Coeur-Joly, Odile, Coleiro, Alexi, Colonges, Stéphane, Corcione, Leonardo, Coriat, Mickael, Coynel, Alexandre, Cuttaia, Francesco, D’Ai, Antonino, D’anca, Fabio, Dadina, Mauro, Daniel, Christophe, Dauner, Lea, DeNigris, Natalie, Dercksen, Johanne, DiPirro, Michael, Doumayrou, Eric, Dubbeldam, Luc, Dupieux, Michel, Dupourqué, Simon, Durand, Jean Loui, Eckert, Dominique, Eiriz, Valvanera, Ercolani, Eric, Etcheverry, Christophe, Finkbeiner, Fred, Fiocchi, Mariateresa, Fossecave, Hervé, Franssen, Philippe, Frericks, Martin, Gabici, Stefano, Gant, Florent, Gao, Jian-Rong, Gastaldello, Fabio, Genolet, Ludovic, Ghizzardi, Simona, Gil, Ma Angeles Alcacera, Giovannini, Elisa, Godet, Olivier, Gomez-Elvira, Javier, Gonzalez, Raoul, Gonzalez, Manuel, Gottardi, Luciano, Granat, Dolorè, Gros, Michel, Guignard, Nicola, Hieltjes, Paul, Hurtado, Adolfo Jesú, Irwin, Kent, Jacquey, Christian, Janiuk, Agnieszka, Jaubert, Jean, Jiménez, Maria, Jolly, Antoine, Jourdan, Thierry, Julien, Sabine, Kedziora, Bartosz, Korb, Andrew, Kreykenbohm, Ingo, König, Ole, Langer, Mathieu, Laudet, Philippe, Laurent, Philippe, Laurenza, Monica, Lesrel, Jean, Ligori, Sebastiano, Lorenz, Maximilian, Luminari, Alfredo, Maffei, Bruno, Maisonnave, Océane, Marelli, Lorenzo, Massonet, Didier, Maussang, Irwin, Melchor, Alejandro Gonzalo, Le Mer, Isabelle, Millan, Francisco Javier San, Millerioux, Jean-Pierre, Mineo, Teresa, Minervini, Gabriele, Molin, Alexeï, Monestes, David, Montinaro, Nicola, Mot, Baptiste, Murat, David, Nagayoshi, Kenichiro, Nazé, Yaël, Noguès, Loïc, Pailot, Damien, Panessa, Francesca, Parodi, Luigi, Petit, Pascal, Piconcelli, Enrico, Pinto, Ciro, Plaza, Jose Miguel Encina, Plaza, Borja, Poyatos, David, Prouvé, Thoma, Ptak, Andy, Puccetti, Simonetta, Puccio, Elena, Ramon, Pascale, Reina, Manuel, Rioland, Guillaume, Rodriguez, Loui, Roig, Anton, Rollet, Bertrand, Roncarelli, Mauro, Roudil, Gille, Rudnicki, Tomasz, Sanisidro, Julien, Sciortino, Luisa, Silva, Vitor, Sordet, Michael, Soto-Aguilar, Javier, Spizzi, Pierre, Surace, Christian, Sánchez, Miguel Fernández, Taralli, Emanuele, Terrasa, Guilhem, Terrier, Régi, Todaro, Michela, Ubertini, Pietro, Uslenghi, Michela, de Vaate, Jan Geralt Bij, Vaccaro, Davide, Varisco, Salvatore, Varnière, Peggy, Vibert, Laurent, Vidriales, María, Villa, Fabrizio, Vodopivec, Boris Martin, Volpe, Angela, de Vries, Cor, Wakeham, Nichola, Walmsley, Gavin, Wise, Michael, de Wit, Martin, Woźniak, Grzegorz, Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Física, Ingeniería de Sistemas y Teoría de la Señal, Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Universitario de Física Aplicada a las Ciencias y las Tecnologías, Astronomía y Astrofísica, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI), Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN), Centre National D'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI), European Space Agency (ESA), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON), Department of Physics [Helsinki], Falculty of Science [Helsinki], Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki-Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki, Institut d'Astrophysique et de Géophysique [Liège], Université de Liège, Centrum Astronomiczne im. M. Kopernika, Warszawa (CAMK), Faculty of Civil Engineering [Prague] (FSV CTU), Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU), Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory (CAL), Columbia University [New York], NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), and Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES)

Subjects
X-IFU: The X-ray Integral Field Unit, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), The X-ray Integral Field Unit [X-IFU], Solar and stellar astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia E Astrofisica, X-rays, SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR), High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Astrophysics of Galaxies, Athena: the advanced telescope for high energy astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysical phenomena, Space instrumentation, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, High energy, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), [PHYS.GRQC]Physics [physics]/General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology [gr-qc], the advanced telescope for high energy astrophysics [Athena], Athena: the advanced telescope for high energy astrophysics · X-IFU: The X-ray Integral Field Unit · Space instrumentation · X-rays · Observatory, Observatory, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

The Athena X-ray Integral Unit (X-IFU) is the high resolution X-ray spectrometer, studied since 2015 for flying in the mid-30s on the Athena space X-ray Observatory, a versatile observatory designed to address the Hot and Energetic Universe science theme, selected in November 2013 by the Survey Science Committee. Based on a large format array of Transition Edge Sensors (TES), it aims to provide spatially resolved X-ray spectroscopy, with a spectral resolution of 2.5 eV (up to 7 keV) over an hexagonal field of view of 5 arc minutes (equivalent diameter). The X-IFU entered its System Requirement Review (SRR) in June 2022, at about the same time when ESA called for an overall X-IFU redesign (including the X-IFU cryostat and the cooling chain), due to an unanticipated cost overrun of Athena. In this paper, after illustrating the breakthrough capabilities of the X-IFU, we describe the instrument as presented at its SRR, browsing through all the subsystems and associated requirements. We then show the instrument budgets, with a particular emphasis on the anticipated budgets of some of its key performance parameters. Finally we briefly discuss on the ongoing key technology demonstration activities, the calibration and the activities foreseen in the X-IFU Instrument Science Center, and touch on communication and outreach activities, the consortium organisation, and finally on the life cycle assessment of X-IFU aiming at minimising the environmental footprint, associated with the development of the instrument. Thanks to the studies conducted so far on X-IFU, it is expected that along the design-to-cost exercise requested by ESA, the X-IFU will maintain flagship capabilities in spatially resolved high resolution X-ray spectroscopy, enabling most of the original X-IFU related scientific objectives of the Athena mission to be retained. (abridged)., Comment: 48 pages, 29 figures, Accepted for publication in Experimental Astronomy with minor editing

Published
2023

18. The Large Area Detector onboard the eXTP mission

Author

Marco Feroci, Giovanni Ambrosi, Filippo Ambrosino, Matias Antonelli, Andrea Argan, Viktor Babinec, Marco Barbera, Jörg Bayer, Pierluigi Bellutti, Bruna Bertucci, Giuseppe Bertuccio, Xingzi Bi, Mirko Boezio, Walter Bonvicini, Giacomo Borghi, Enrico Bozzo, David Baudin, Florent Bouyjou, Daniele Brienza, Franck Cadoux, Riccardo Campana, Jiewei Cao, Elisabetta Cavazzuti, Francesco Ceraudo, Tianxiang Chen, Wen Chen, Daniela Cirrincione, Nicolas De Angelis, Alessandra De Rosa, Ettore Del Monte, Sergio Di Cosimo, Giuseppe Dilillo, Roman Dohnal, Immacolata Donnarumma, Yuri Evangelista, Qingmei Fan, Yannick Favre, Emanuele Fiandrini, Francesco Ficorella, Fabio Fuschino, Na Gao, Olivier Gevin, Marco Grassi, Manuel Guedel, Xingbo Han, Huilin He, Paul Hedderman, jan-willem den herder, Richard Hynek, Bing Hong, Ge Jin, Merlin Kole, Vladimír Karas, Martin Komarek, Claudio Labanti, Loghui Li, Tianming Li, Hong Liang, Olivier Limousin, Rui Liu, Ugo Lo Cicero, Jens Lohering, Giovanni Lombardi, Fang-Jun Lu, Tao Luo, Piero Malcovati, Hanqi Mao, Andrea Marinucci, Filippo Mele, Vasco Mendes, Martin Merkl, Aline Meuris, Małgorzata Michalska, Alfredo Morbidini, Gianluca Morgante, Fabio Muleri, Riccardo Munini, Lorenzo Mussolin, Barbara Negri, Petr Novak, Witold Nowosielski, Alessio Nuti, Piotr Orleanski, Roland Ottensamer, Luigi Pacciani, Stephane Paltani, Teng Pan, Giancarlo Pepponi, Emanuele Perinati, Raffaele Piazzolla, Antonino Picciotto, Samuel Pliego, Alexandre Rachevski, Irina Rashevskaia, Andrea Santangelo, Roberto Serafinelli, Stéphane Schanne, Konrad Skup, Libor Sveda, Jiri Svoboda, Christopher Tenzer, Michela Todaro, Gabreil Torok, Alessio Trois, Andrea Vacchi, Enrico Virgilli, Hao Xiong, Jian Wang, Xianqi Wang, Berend Winter, Xin Wu, Yupeng Xu, Gianluigi Zampa, Nicola Zampa, Andrei Zdziarski, Long Zhang, Shu Zhang, Shuang-Nan Zhang, Wenda Zhang, Xiaoli Zhang, Zhen Zhang, Yupeng Zhou, Nicola Zorzi, den Herder, Jan-Willem A., Feroci, Marco, Ambrosi, Giovanni, Ambrosino, Filippo, Antonelli, Matia, Argan, Andrea, Babinec, Viktor, Barbera, Marco, Bayer, Jörg, Bellutti, Pierluigi, Bertucci, Bruna, Bertuccio, Giuseppe, Bi, Xingzi, Boezio, Mirko, Bonvicini, Walter, Borghi, Giacomo, Bozzo, Enrico, Baudin, David, Bouyjou, Florent, Brienza, Daniele, Cadoux, Franck, Campana, Riccardo, Cao, Jiewei, Cavazzuti, Elisabetta, Ceraudo, Francesco, Chen, Tianxiang, Chen, Wen, Cirrincione, Daniela, De Angelis, Nicola, De Rosa, Alessandra, Del Monte, Ettore, Di Cosimo, Sergio, Dilillo, Giuseppe, Dohnal, Roman, Donnarumma, Immacolata, Evangelista, Yuri, Fan, Qingmei, Favre, Yannick, Fiandrini, Emanuele, Ficorella, Francesco, Fuschino, Fabio, Gao, Na, Gevin, Olivier, Grassi, Marco, Guedel, Manuel, Han, Xingbo, He, Huilin, Hedderman, Paul, den herder, jan-willem, Hynek, Richard, Hong, Bing, Jin, Ge, Kole, Merlin, Karas, Vladimír, Komarek, Martin, Labanti, Claudio, Li, Loghui, Li, Tianming, Liang, Hong, Limousin, Olivier, Liu, Rui, Lo Cicero, Ugo, Lohering, Jen, Lombardi, Giovanni, Lu, Fang-Jun, Luo, Tao, Malcovati, Piero, Mao, Hanqi, Marinucci, Andrea, Mele, Filippo, Mendes, Vasco, Merkl, Martin, Meuris, Aline, Michalska, Małgorzata, Morbidini, Alfredo, Morgante, Gianluca, Muleri, Fabio, Munini, Riccardo, Mussolin, Lorenzo, Negri, Barbara, Novak, Petr, Nowosielski, Witold, Nuti, Alessio, Orleanski, Piotr, Ottensamer, Roland, Pacciani, Luigi, Paltani, Stephane, Pan, Teng, Pepponi, Giancarlo, Perinati, Emanuele, Piazzolla, Raffaele, Picciotto, Antonino, Pliego, Samuel, Rachevski, Alexandre, Rashevskaia, Irina, Santangelo, Andrea, Serafinelli, Roberto, Schanne, Stéphane, Skup, Konrad, Sveda, Libor, Svoboda, Jiri, Tenzer, Christopher, Todaro, Michela, Torok, Gabreil, Trois, Alessio, Vacchi, Andrea, Virgilli, Enrico, Xiong, Hao, Wang, Jian, Wang, Xianqi, Winter, Berend, Wu, Xin, Xu, Yupeng, Zampa, Gianluigi, Zampa, Nicola, Zdziarski, Andrei, Zhang, Long, Zhang, Shu, Zhang, Shuang-Nan, Zhang, Wenda, Zhang, Xiaoli, Zhang, Zhen, Zhou, Yupeng, and Zorzi, Nicola

Subjects
Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia E Astrofisica, EXTP, LAD, Silicon Drift Detector, X-ray timing
Abstract

The Large Area Detector (LAD) is the high-throughput, spectral-timing instrument onboard the eXTP mission, a flagship mission of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the China National Space Administration, with a large European participation coordinated by Italy and Spain. The eXTP mission is currently performing its phase B study, with a target launch at the end-2027. The eXTP scientific payload includes four instruments (SFA, PFA, LAD and WFM) offering unprecedented simultaneous wide-band X-ray timing and polarimetry sensitivity. The LAD instrument is based on the design originally proposed for the LOFT mission. It envisages a deployed 3.2 m2 effective area in the 2-30 keV energy range, achieved through the technology of the large-area Silicon Drift Detectors - offering a spectral resolution of up to 200 eV FWHM at 6 keV - and of capillary plate collimators - limiting the field of view to about 1 degree. In this paper we will provide an overview of the LAD instrument design, its current status of development and anticipated performance.

Published
2022

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