Speaker
Description
The Advanced Telescope for High-Energy Astrophysics (Athena) has successfully completed a redefinition phase – both of the technical implementation, and mission driving science objectives – becoming ‘NewAthena’. With mission adoption by ESA foreseen in early 2027, the activities of the NewAthena Science Community are expected to ramp up in the very near term. I will give an update on the scientific priorities and prospects of this mission, also in light of novel results in high-energy high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy obtained from XRISM. I will also briefly highlight some of the technical progress achieved recently towards building the NewAthena X-ray Integral Field Unit detector, for which SRON is leading the implementation of the Focal Plane Assembly.
| Talk category | Instrumentation (contact wijnen@strw.leidenuniv.nl) |
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| Preference for a talk or poster | Talk |
