5th Athena/WFI Proto-Consortium Meeting
Agenda
Day 0 (Tuesday January 24th):
19:00 Welcome Reception at Antonio Pasqualino International Puppet Museum
Day 1 (Wednesday January 25th):
09:00-11:00 Mission and Project Overview (chair: Barbera)
- (15) Welcome
- (30*) Nandra: Athena Project Status
- (20) Stefanescu: Athena Study Status
- (20) Meidinger: WFI Status Overview
- (20) Pajot: X-IFU Status Overview
- (15) Plattner: SIM overview
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:55 Detector Development (chair: Meidinger)
- (5) Meidinger: Overview
- (20) Lechner: Status Sensor Development
- (20) Treberspurg: Spectroscopic Performance of the WFI Prototype Sensors
- (20) Müller-Seidlitz: Readout speed and Charge Removal – The Advantages of Linear Gate DEPFETs
- (20) Koch: Status of Veritas and Switcher FEE ASICs
12:55-15:00 Lunch Break (Science Team Meeting)
15:00-16:40 Detector Electronics (chair: Plattner)
- (5) Plattner: Overview
- (20) Ott: DE Labsystem and Emulator
- (20) Albrecht: DE Concept and Status of Breadboarding
- (20) Tenzer: Status of Frame Processo
- (20) Thomas: Power Conditioning Module for WFI Detector Electronics
- (15) Skup: WFI Power Distribution Unit Concept
16:40-17:15 Coffee Break
17:15-18:35 Thermal/Mechanical Conceptual Design and Background (chair: Rau)
- (20) Manhart: Mechanical System Concept
- (20) Fürmetz: Thermal System Design
- (20) von Kienlin: Instrumental background
- (20) Hall/Keelan: Athena WFI Graded-Z shield: Preliminary Proton Test Campaign
20:30 Conference Dinner at Osteria di Ballarò
Day 2 (Thursday January 26th)
09:00-10:40 Filter Wheel & ICPU (chair: Meidinger)
- (5) Meidinger: Overview
- (20) Barbera: Filter design and development activities
- (20) Polak: Filter wheel development
- (20) März: Analysis of acoustic environmental factors on ATHENA for WFI
- (5) Plattner: Overview(15) Kuvvetli: Analog I/F board for ICPU
- (15) Steller: Central Processing Module of ICPU
10:40-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-13:00 Science Related Activities (chair: Nandra)
- (20) Rau: Science Team Activities and Science Requirements Update
- (20) Allen: Reverberation Mapping: utilizing the WFI fast readout capability
- (20) Burrows: Science Products Module
- (20) Wilms: Update to the SIXTE Simulator
- (25) Science Ground Segment (Haberl/Watson)
13:00-15:00 Lunch Break (Consortium Board Meeting)
15:00-16:45 Conclusion (chair: Rau)
- (20) Tsuru: CCD camera (SXI) onboard Hitomi and outlook on XARM
- (10) Nandra: Concluding Remarks
- (75) Discussions and ad-hoc splinter sessions
16:45-17:15 Coffee
*) Noted allocations (in minutes) include the time for questions.