US Contributions to the Athena Wide Field Imager
Abstract
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.
- Publication:
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UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XXI
- Pub Date:
- September 2019
- DOI:
- 10.1117/12.2528532
- Bibcode:
- 2019SPIE11118E..0ZB