US Contributions to the Athena Wide Field Imager

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作者
Burrows, David N. [1 ]
Allen, Steve [2 ,7 ]
Bautz, Marshall [3 ]
Bulbul, Esra [4 ]
Chattopadhyay, Tanmoy [2 ]
Erdley, Julia [1 ]
Falcone, Abraham D. [1 ]
Grant, Catherine E. [3 ]
Herrmann, Sven [2 ,6 ]
Hornschemeier, Ann [5 ]
Kelly, Doug [1 ]
Kennea, Jamie [1 ]
Kraft, Ralph [4 ]
LaMarr, Beverly [3 ]
Mantz, Adam [2 ]
Miller, Eric D. [3 ]
Morrisb, R. Glenn [2 ,7 ]
Nulsen, Paul [4 ]
Pradhan, Pragati [1 ]
Vulice, Neven [5 ,8 ]
Wilkins, Dan [2 ]
Zugger, Michael E. [1 ]
机构
[1] Penn State Univ, Dept Astron & Astrophys, 525 Davey Lab, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[2] Stanford Univ, Dept Phys, 382 Via Pueblo Mall, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[3] MIT, Kavli Inst Astrophys & Space Res, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[4] Smithsonian Astrophys Observ, Cambridge, MA USA
[5] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD USA
[6] Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, NY 11973 USA
[7] SLAC Natl Accelerator Lab, 2575 Sand Hill Rd, Menlo Pk, CA 94025 USA
[8] Univ Maryland, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
关键词
X-ray astronomy; Athena; Wide Field Imager;
D O I
10.1117/12.2528532
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P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
The world's premier X-ray astronomical observatories, Chandra and XMM-Newton, have been operating for about 20 years. The next flagship X-ray observatory launched will be ESA's Athena mission. We discuss planned US contributions to the Athena Wide Field Imager instrument, which encompass transient source detection, background characterization and reduction, and detector electronics design and testing, in addition to scientific contributions.
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