Structural modelling and mechanical tests supporting the design of the ATHENA X-IFU thermal filters and WFI optical blocking filter

Giancarlo Parodi; Fabio D'Anca; Ugo Lo Cicero; Luisa Sciortino; Miroslaw Rataj; Szymon Polak; Adam Pilch; Norbert Meidinger; Kurt Dittrich; Johannes Hartwig; Valérie Samain; Alfonso Collura; Salvatore Ferruggia Bonura; Antonino Buttacavoli; Marco Barbera

doi:10.1117/12.2314451

6 July 2018 Structural modelling and mechanical tests supporting the design of the ATHENA X-IFU thermal filters and WFI optical blocking filter

Giancarlo Parodi, Fabio D'Anca, Ugo Lo Cicero, Luisa Sciortino, Miroslaw Rataj, Szymon Polak, Adam Pilch, Norbert Meidinger, Kurt Dittrich, Johannes Hartwig, Valérie Samain, Alfonso Collura, Salvatore Ferruggia Bonura, Antonino Buttacavoli, Marco Barbera

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Proceedings Volume 10699, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray; 106994C (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2314451
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2018, Austin, Texas, United States

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ATHENA is a Large high energy astrophysics space mission selected by ESA in the Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 Science Program. It will be equipped with two interchangeable focal plane detectors: the X-Ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU) and the Wide Field Imager (WFI). Both detectors require x-ray transparent filters to fully exploit their sensitivity. In order to maximize the X-ray transparency, filters must be very thin, from a few tens to few hundreds of nm, on the other hand, they must be strong enough to survive the severe launch stresses. In particular, the WFI OBF, being launched in atmospheric pressure, shall also survive acoustic loads. In this paper, we present a review of the structural modeling performed to assist the ATHENA filters design, the preliminary results from vibration and acoustic tests, and we discuss future activities necessary to consolidate the filters design, before the preliminary requirement review of the ATHENA instruments, scheduled before the end of 2018.

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Giancarlo Parodi, Fabio D'Anca, Ugo Lo Cicero, Luisa Sciortino, Miroslaw Rataj, Szymon Polak, Adam Pilch, Norbert Meidinger, Kurt Dittrich, Johannes Hartwig, Valérie Samain, Alfonso Collura, Salvatore Ferruggia Bonura, Antonino Buttacavoli, and Marco Barbera "Structural modelling and mechanical tests supporting the design of the ATHENA X-IFU thermal filters and WFI optical blocking filter", Proc. SPIE 10699, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 106994C (6 July 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2314451

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Thermography

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