BEaTriX: a facility for testing the modular elements of ATHENA
 
 
News
 
 
16-21 June 2024 SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2024, Yokohama (Japan). Presentation and paper by D.Sisana et al.
 
21-25 October 2024 International Conference on Space Optics, Antibes Juan-les-Pins (France). Presentation and paper by B.Salmaso et al.
 
12-14 September 2023 PhotonMEADOW2023, International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste (IT), presentation by B.Salmaso et al.
 
20-24 August 2023 SPIE Optics + Photonics 2023, San Diego (California, US), Optics for EUV, X-Ray and Gamma Ray Astronomy XI, presentations and paper by B.Salmaso et al., D.Sisana et al.
 
06 March 2023 Commissioning completed and Acceptance Review
 
5-9 December 2022 International workshop on Astronomical X-Ray Optics AXRO, Praga (CZ), presentation by B.Salmaso et al.
 
07-10 November 2022 Exploring the hot and energetic universe: 3rd ATHENA scientific conference, CosmoCaixa museum Barcelona (Spain), poster by Salmaso B. et al.
 
September 2022, INAF-OAB awarded a contract to study the feasibility of a BEaTriX#2 at cosine, the Dutch company in charge of the developments of the ATHENA Silicon Pore Optics Mirror Modules.
 
3-7 October 2022 ICSO 2022, International Conference on Space Optics, Dubrovnik (Croatia) - Presentations and papers by Basso S. et al., Spiga D. et al.
 
17-22 July 2022 SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2022, Montréal Québec (Canada) - Presentations and papers by Salmaso B. et al, Basso S. et al., Ghigo M. et al.
 
06 April 2022 IWXM2022, 7th International Workshop on Metrology for X-ray Optics, Mirror Design and Fabrication, Berlin (Germany) - Held online - Presentation by S. Basso, "BEaTriX, the new X-ray facility for PSF and Effective Area calibration on X-ray optics"
 
10 March 2022 First light: The first PSF with a MM was measured.
You can find the results on Basso. S. et al. "First light of BEaTriX, the new testing facility for the modular X-ray optics of the ATHENA mission", accepted on 29 June 2022 for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2206.15468
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Banner image (by Stefano Basso): BEaTriX facility - INAF Brera Astronomical Observatory site of Merate (LC) - Web site credit: B. Salmaso, D. Spiga, and the BEaTriX team - M.R. Panzera