2016 (v1)
Publication
This paper summarizes a preliminary design concept for the focal plane assembly of the X-ray Integral Field Unit on the Athena spacecraft, an imaging microcalorimeter that will enable high spectral resolution imaging and point-source spectroscopy. The instrument's sensor array will be a ∼ 3840-pixel transition edge sensor (TES) microcalorimeter...
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