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A Fully Planar Approach to the Construction of X-Ray Microcalorimeters with Doped Germanium Sensors

scholarly article by G. Chianetta et al published 25 January 2008 in Journal of Low Temperature Physics

A parallel 2-d hydrodynamic FORTRAN code for astrophysical applications on a Meiko computing surface

A single stage adiabatic demagnetization refrigerator for testing x-ray microcalorimeters

AXAF High-Resolution Camera (HRC): calibration and recalibration at XRCF and beyond

Absorption band at 7.6 eV induced by γ-irradiation in silica glasses

Active shape correction of a thin glass/plastic x-ray mirror

Analytical description of lobster eye and similar multi-foil optics

Astronomical soft x-ray mirrors reflectivity enhancement by multilayer coatings with carbon overcoating

Astrophysics and spectroscopy with microcalorimeters on an electron beam ion trap

B-MINE, the balloon-borne microcalorimeter nuclear line explorer

Background Rejection of Charged Particles in the Simbol-X Telescope: Preliminary Study of Protons Scattering

Baseline design of the filters for the LAD detector on board LOFT

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Baseline design of the thermal blocking filters for the X-IFU detector on board ATHENA

CESAR: Cryogenic Electronics for Space Applications

CHP efficiency of a 2000 × CPV system with reflective optics

Calibration of the AXAF-HRC UV/ion shields at Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo G.S. Vaiana: I -instrumental setup

Calibration of the AXAF-HRC UV/ion shields at Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo G.S. Vaiana: II - x-ray transmission measurements

Calibration of the AXAF-HRC UV/ion shields at Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo G.S. Vaiana: III - synchrotron measurements of XANES in aluminum-coated Lexan film samples

scholarly article published 31 October 1996

Calibration of the AXAF-HRC UV/ion shields at the Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo G.S. Vaiana: IV - UV rejection measurements

Calibration of the Solar-B x-ray optics

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Calibration of the SphinX experiment at the XACT facility in Palermo

Calibration of the UV/ion shields for the AXAF High-Resolution Camera

Calibration of the XRT-SOLARB flat mirror samples at the XACT Facility of INAF-OAPA

Calibration of the XRT-SOLARB flight filters at the XACT facility of INAF-OAPA

Calibration of the lunar orbital x-ray fluorescence imaging spectrometer (LOXIA) of Chang'E-1 satellite at INAF-OAPA

scholarly article published 13 September 2007

Carbon overcoatings for soft x-ray reflectivity enhancement

Characterization of thin plastic foils for applications in x-ray optics technology

Charged-particle multiplicity measurement in proton–proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=0.9$ and 2.36 TeV with ALICE at LHC

scientific article (publication date: 12 June 2010)

Chemical Evolution of Interstellar Methanol Ice Analogs upon Ultraviolet Irradiation: The Role of the Substrate

scientific article

Combined heat and power generation with a HCPV system at 2000 suns

Design and optimization of the wide-field spectrometer for the EDGE wide-field spectrometer

Design concepts for the Cherenkov Telescope Array CTA: an advanced facility for ground-based high-energy gamma-ray astronomy

article by Marcos Actis et al published 23 November 2011 in Experimental Astronomy

Designing an x-ray baffle for stray-light reduction at the focal plane of the Wide Field Imager on board EDGE

Development of a TES based Cryo-Anticoincidence for a large array of microcalorimeters

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Development of the wide field imager for Athena

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Direct sunlight facility for testing and research in HCPV

EBIT diagnostics using X-ray spectra of highly ionized Ne

scholarly article

EDGE: Explorer of diffuse emission and gamma-ray burst explosions

EDGE: explorer of diffuse emission and gamma-ray burst explosions

ESTREMO/WFXRT: Extreme phySics in the TRansient and Evolving COsmos

Electrical connections and driving electronics for piezo-actuated x-ray thin glass optics

Electrical-optical characterization of multijunction solar cells under 2000X concentration

article published in 2014

Electroplated Indium Bumps as Thermal and Electrical Connections of NTD-Ge Sensors for the Fabrication of Microcalorimeter Arrays

Experimental evidence of an incomplete thermalization of the energy in an x-ray microcalorimeter with a Ta∕Au absorber

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Fabrication of Electrical Contacts on Pyramid-Shaped NTD-Ge Microcalorimeters Using Free-Standing Shadow Masks

article by U. Lo Cicero et al published 30 November 2011 in Journal of Low Temperature Physics

Fast parallel implementation of multidimensional data-domain FORTRAN codes on distributed-memory processor arrays

Fine thermal structure of a coronal active region.

scientific article

High Energy, High Resolution X-Ray Spectroscopy: Microcalorimeters For Nuclear Line Astrophysics

scholarly article published 2005

LOFT: the Large Observatory For X-ray Timing

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Laboratory astrophysics and microanalysis with NTD-germanium-based X-ray microcalorimeters

scholarly article by E Silver et al published April 2000 in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research

Lightweight thin plastic foil x-ray telescopes

Lobster eye optics for nano-satellite x-ray monitor

Magnetic Shielding of Soft Protons in Future X-Ray Telescopes: The Case of the ATHENA Wide Field Imager

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Manufacturing an active X-ray mirror prototype in thin glass

scientific article published in January 2016

Manufacturing and testing a thin glass mirror shell with piezoelectric active control

Measurement of the transmission of the UV/ion shields for the AXAF High-Resolution Camera

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Metal thin-film temperature sensor embedded in heat-sink for CPV cells characterization

Modeling the energy thermalization of x-ray photons in a microcalorimeter with superconducting absorber

Monitoring the stability of thin and medium back-up filters of the Newton-XMM EPIC camera

NTD germanium-based microcalorimeters for hard x-ray spectroscopy

scholarly article published 13 December 2000

NTD-GE-based microcalorimeter performance

ORIGIN: metal creation and evolution from the cosmic dawn

Performance and calibration of the AXAF High-Resolution Camera I: imaging readout

Performance and calibration of the AXAF High-Resolution Camera II: the spectroscopic detector

Photoluminescence activity in natural silica excited in the vacuum-UV range

Planar Technology for NDT-Ge X-Ray Microcalorimeters: Absorber Fabrication

Planar array technology for the fabrication of germanium X-ray microcalorimeters

scholarly article published October 2008

Realization and drive tests of active thin glass x-ray mirrors

Search for very high energy gamma-rays from the z = 0.896 quasar 4C +55.17 with the MAGIC telescopes

scientific article

Simbol-X Mirror Module Thermal Shields: II-Small Angle X-Ray Scattering Measurements

Simbol-X Mirror Module Thermal Shields: I—Design and X-Ray Transmission

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Soft X-ray irradiation of methanol ice: implication for H_2_ CO formation in interstellar regions

scholarly article

Soft X-ray irradiation of pure carbon monoxide interstellar ice analogues

scholarly article

Spectral broadening by incomplete thermalization of the energy in X-ray microcalorimeters with superconducting absorber and NTD-Ge thermal sensor

Spectral broadening by quasiparticle pile-up in X-ray microcalorimeters with superconducting absorbers

Spectral broadening by spatial effects in X-ray microcalorimeters with superconducting absorber and NTD-Ge thermal sensor

Spiral conical approximations to double reflection Wolter optics

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Status of the EPIC thin and medium filters on-board XMM-Newton after more than 10 years of operation I: laboratory measurements on back-up filters

Status of the EPIC thin and medium filters on-board XMM-Newton after more than 10 years of operation II: analysis of in-flight data

Study and implementation of a soft X-ray 100 eV -20 keV fixed exit monochromator system

Study of Microcalorimeters for Astrophysics Applications

Surface investigation and aluminum oxide estimation on test filters for the ATHENA X-IFU and WFI detectors

scholarly article published 18 July 2016

Temperature effects on the performances of the ATHENA X-IFU thermal filters

Test of x-ray microcalorimeters with bilayer absorbers

Tests of lobster eye optics for small space X-ray telescope

The ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC

scientific article

The ATHENA x-ray integral field unit (X-IFU)

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

scientific article

The Cryogenic AntiCoincidence Detector Project for ATHENA+: An Overview Up to the Present Status

The Cryogenic AntiCoincidence detector for ATHENA: the progress towards the final pixel design

The Cryogenic Anticoincidence Detector for ATHENA-XMS

The European Photon Imaging Camera on XMM-Newton: The MOS cameras

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The LOFT mission concept: a status update

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The Large Observatory for X-ray Timing (LOFT)

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The Large Observatory for x-ray timing

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The Palermo XACT facility: a new 35 m long soft x-ray beam-line for the development and calibration of next-generation x-ray observatories

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The TES-based cryogenic anticoincidence detector for IXO: first results from large area prototypes

The X-Ray Telescope (XRT) for the Hinode Mission

article published in 2007

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

The cryogenic anticoincidence detector for ATHENA-XMS: preliminary results from the new prototype

The filter and calibration wheel for the ATHENA wide field imager

The filter wheel and filters development for the X-IFU instruments onboard Athena

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The focal plane assembly for the Athena X-ray Integral Field Unit instrument

The large area detector of LOFT: the Large Observatory for X-ray Timing

scientific article (publication date: 24 July 2014)

The mirror module design for the cryogenic x-ray imaging spectrometer on-board ORIGIN

The optical blocking filter for the ATHENA wide field imager: ongoing activities towards the conceptual design

The thin and medium filters of the EPIC camera on-board XMM-Newton: measured performance after more than 15 years of operation

The x-ray microcalorimeter spectrometer onboard Athena

The young hard active Sun: soft X-ray irradiation of tryptophan in water solutions

Thermal Filters for the ATHENA X-IFU: Ongoing Activities Toward the Conceptual Design

Thermal shielding of the SIMBOL-X mirror assembly

Thermalization efficiency of superconducting absorbers for thermal X-ray microcalorimeters

Thin plastic foil X-ray optics with spiral geometry

article published in 2007

Thin plastic shell x-ray optics: an update

Thin-shell plastic lenses for space and laboratory applications

scholarly article

Visible light apparatus for preliminary tests of x-ray optics

X-ray and optical performance of the flight filters for the JET-X telescope

X-ray emitting hot plasma in solar active regions observed by the SphinX spectrometer

scientific article

XMM-Newton first-light observations of the Hickson galaxy group 16

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

XRASE: The X-Ray Spectroscopic Explorer

scholarly article