The Athena X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU)

被引：171

作者：

Barret, Didier ^{[1
,2
]}

Thien Lam Trong ^{[3
]}

den Herde, Jan-Willem ^{[4
]}

Piro, Luigi ^{[5
]}

Barcons, Xavier ^{[6
]}

Huovelin, Juhani ^{[7
]}

Kelley, Richard ^{[8
]}

Miguel Mas-Hesse, J. ^{[9
]}

Mitsuda, Kazuhisa ^{[10
,11
]}

Paltani, Stephane ^{[12
]}

Rauw, Gregor ^{[13
]}

Rozanska, Agata ^{[14
]}

Wilms, Joern ^{[15
]}

Barbera, Marco ^{[16
,17
]}

Bozzo, Enrico ^{[12
]}

Teresa Ceballos, Maria ^{[6
]}

Charles, Ivan ^{[18
]}

Decourchelle, Anne ^{[19
]}

den Hartog, Roland ^{[4
]}

Duval, Jean-Marc ^{[18
]}

Fiore, Fabrizio ^{[20
]}

Gatti, Flavio ^{[21
]}

Goldwurm, Andrea ^{[22
,23
]}

Jackson, Brian ^{[4
]}

Jonker, Peter ^{[4
]}

Kilbourne, Caroline ^{[8
]}

Macculi, Claudio ^{[5
]}

Mendez, Mariano ^{[24
]}

Molendi, Silvano ^{[25
]}

Orleanski, Piotr ^{[26
]}

Pajot, Francois ^{[1
,2
]}

Pointecouteau, Etienne ^{[1
,2
]}

Porter, Frederick ^{[8
]}

Pratt, Gabriel W. ^{[19
]}

Prele, Damien ^{[22
]}

Ravera, Laurent ^{[1
,2
]}

Renotte, Etienne ^{[27
]}

Schaye, Joop ^{[28
]}

Shinozaki, Keisuke ^{[29
]}

Valenziano, Luca ^{[30
]}

Vink, Jacco ^{[31
]}

Webb, Natalie ^{[1
,2
]}

Yamasaki, Noriko ^{[10
,11
]}

Delcelier-Douchin, Francoise ^{[3
]}

Le Du, Michel ^{[3
]}

Mesnager, Jean-Michel ^{[3
]}

Pradines, Alice ^{[3
]}

Branduardi-Raymont, Graziella ^{[32
]}

Dadina, Mauro ^{[30
]}

Finoguenov, Alexis ^{[7
]}

机构：

[1] IRAP CNRS, 9 Av Colonel Roche,BP 44346, F-31028 Toulouse 4, France

[2] Univ Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, OMP, Toulouse, France

[3] Ctr Spatial Toulouse, Ctr Natl Etud Spatiales, 18 Ave Edouard Belin, F-31401 Toulouse 9, France

[4] SRON Netherlands Inst Space Res, SRON, Sorbonnelaan 2, NL-3584 CA Utrecht, Netherlands

[5] INAF Ist Astrofis & Planetol Spaziali, Via Fosso Cavaliere 100, I-00133 Rome, Italy

[6] Inst Fis Cantabria CSIC UC, E-39005 Santander, Cantabria, Spain

[7] Univ Helsinki, Div Geophys & Astron, Dept Phys, POB 48, FI-00014 Helsinki, Finland

[8] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, 8800 Greenbelt Rd, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA

[9] CSIC INTA, Ctr Astrobiol, Ctra Torrejon Ajalvir,4 Km, Madrid 28850, Spain

[10] ISAS, Chuo Ku, 3-1-1 Yoshinodai, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 2525210, Japan

[11] Japan Aerosp Explorat Agcy JAXA, Chuo Ku, 3-1-1 Yoshinodai, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 2525210, Japan

[12] Univ Geneva, Dept Astron, Chemin Ecogia 16, CH-1290 Versoix, Switzerland

[13] Univ Liege, Inst Astrophys & Geophys, Allee 6 Aout 19c, B-4000 Liege, Belgium

[14] Polish Acad Sci, Nicolaus Copernicus Astron Ctr, Ul Bartycka 18, PL-00716 Warsaw, Poland

[15] Univ Erlangen Nurnberg, ECAP, Sternwartstr 7, D-96049 Bamberg, Germany

[16] Univ Palermo, Dipartimento Fis & Chim, Via Archirafi 36, I-90123 Palermo, Italy

[17] INAF, Osservatorio Astron Palermo GS Vaiana, Piazza Parlamento 1, I-90134 Palermo, Italy

[18] Univ Grenoble Alpes, CEA INAC SBT, F-38000 Grenoble, France

[19] Univ Paris Diderot, CNRS, CEA, Lab AIM,UMR 7158,CEA DRF,IRFU,SAp, F-91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France

[20] INAF, Osservatorio Astron Roma, Via Frascati 33, I-00078 Monte Porzio Catone, Italy

[21] Univ Genoa, Dept Phys, Via Dodecaneso 33, I-16146 Genoa, Italy

[22] Univ Paris Diderot, APC Astroparticule & Cosmol, 10 Rue A Domon & L Duquet, F-75205 Paris 13, France

[23] CEA Saclay, Serv Astrophys, IRFU, DRF, F-91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France

[24] Univ Groningen, Landleven 12, NL-9747 AD Groningen, Netherlands

[25] INAF IASF Milano, Via E Bassini 15, I-20133 Milan, Italy

[26] Polish Acad Sci, Ctr Badan Kosmicznych, Bartycka 18a, PL-00716 Warsaw, Poland

[27] CSL, Ave PreaiIly B29, B-4031 Liege, Belgium

[28] Leiden Univ, Leiden Observ, POB 9513, NL-2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands

[29] Japan Aerosp Explorat Agcy, Res Unit U2 2, Res & Dev Directorate, 2-11 Sengen, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3058505, Japan

[30] INAF IASF Ist Astrofis Spaziale & Fis Cosm, Area Ric, Via Piero Gobetti 101, I-40129 Bologna, Italy

[31] Univ Amsterdam, Anton Pannekoek Inst, GRAPPA, POB 94249, NL-1090 GE Amsterdam, Netherlands

[32] Univ Coll London, Mullard Space Sci Lab, Surrey RH5 6NT, England

[33] Hiroshima Univ, High Energy Astrophys Grp, Dept Phys Sci, 1-3-1 Kagamiyama, Hiroshima 7398526, Japan

[34] Polish Acad Sci, Ctr Theoret Phys, Al Lotnikow 32-46, PL-02668 Warsaw, Poland

[35] Univ Michigan, Dept Astron, 1085 South Univ Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA

[36] Univ Alicante, IUFACyT, Campus San Vicente del Raspeig, E-03690 Alicante, Spain

来源：

SPACE TELESCOPES AND INSTRUMENTATION 2016: ULTRAVIOLET TO GAMMA RAY | 2016年 / 9905卷

关键词：

Athena; Instrumentation; Space telescopes; X-ray spectroscopy; X-ray Integral Field Unit; SUPERMASSIVE BLACK-HOLE; ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI; DISK-JET CONNECTION; ULTRA-FAST OUTFLOWS; BROAD IRON LINES; ACCRETION DISK; GALAXY CLUSTERS; BINARY-SYSTEMS; VARIABILITY; ABSORPTION;

D O I：

10.1117/12.2232432

中图分类号：

TH7 [仪器、仪表];

学科分类号：

0804 ; 080401 ; 081102 ;

摘要：

The X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU) on board the Advanced Telescope for High-ENergy Astrophysics (Athena) will provide spatially resolved high -resolution X-ray spectroscopy from 0.2 to 12 keV, with similar to 5 '' pixels over a field of view of 5 arc minute equivalent diameter and a spectral resolution of 2.5 eV up to 7 keV. In this paper, we first review the core scientific objectives of Athena, driving the main performance parameters of the X-IFU, namely the spectral resolution, the field of view, the effective area, the count rate capabilities, the instrumental background. We also illustrate the breakthrough potential of the X-IFU for some observatory science goals. Then we briefly describe the X-IFU design as defined at the time of the mission consolidation review concluded in May 2016, and report on its predicted performance. Finally, we discuss some options to improve the instrument performance while not increasing its complexity and resource demands (e.g. count rate capability, spectral resolution). The X-IFU will be provided by an international consortium led by France, The Netherlands and Italy, with further ESA member state contributions from Belgium, Finland, Germany, Poland, Spain, Switzerland and two international partners from the United States and Japan.

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