A 50 mK test bench for demonstration of the readout chain of Athena/X-IFU
A 50 mK test bench for demonstration of the readout chain of Athena/X-IFU
The X-IFU (x-ray integral field unit) onboard the large ESA mission Athena (advanced telescope for high energy astrophysics), planned to be launched in the mid 2030s, will be a cryogenic x-ray imaging spectrometer operating at 55 mK. It will provide unprecedented spatially resolved high-resolution spectroscopy (2.5 eV FWHM up to …