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The Phonon-Mediated TES Cosmic Ray Detector for Focal Plane of ATHENA X-Ray Telescope

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The current projects of future X-rays space telescopes foresee high resolving power transition edge sensor (TES) micro-calorimeters arrays as focal plane instrument. In order to full exploit their sensitivity in the space environment, they need an anticoincidence detector to reject the background due to cosmic charged particles. High-energy protons (> 150 MeV) and other charged particle may release in the X-ray calorimeter, the same energy of the X-rays sources under observation. We report the description of the last prototype based on TES calorimeter where a 1-cm2 silicon chip is used as both substrate and absorber. The readout is made of 96 iridium/gold TESs uniformly distributed on its surface and parallel wired. In this paper, we will describe the design, with the preliminary phonon dynamics simulation, the fabrication, of first demonstration model for the ATHENA space telescope project.

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Acknowledgements

This work has been supported by ASI (Italian Space Agency) through the Contract No. 2015-046-R.0 and No. 2018-11-HH.0 and by ESA through the Contract No. 4000114932/15/NL/BW.

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  1. University of Genova, Genoa, Italy

    M. Biasotti, C. Boragno, L. Ferrari Barusso, F. Gatti, D. Grosso, M. Rigano & B. Siri

  2. IAPS-INAF ROMMA, Rome, Italy

    C. Macculi, M. D’Andrea & L. Piro

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Biasotti, M., Boragno, C., Ferrari Barusso, L. et al. The Phonon-Mediated TES Cosmic Ray Detector for Focal Plane of ATHENA X-Ray Telescope. J Low Temp Phys 199, 225–230 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-020-02348-y

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