Reproducibility and monitoring of the instrumental particle background for the X-ray Integral Field Unit
Reproducibility and monitoring of the instrumental particle background for the X-ray Integral Field Unit
The X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU) is the cryogenic imaging spectrometer on board the future X-ray observatory Athena. With a hexagonal array of 3840 AC-biased Transition Edge Sensors (TES), it will provide narrow-field observations (5' equivalent diameter) with unprecedented high spectral resolution (2.5 eV up to 7 keV) over the …