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.