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XMM-Newton Survey Science CentreThe SSC
is an ESA-appointed consortium led by
M.G. Watson (Leicester University) to support ground-segment activities
for the XMM-Newton mission. The SSC is constituted by 10 european centres:
University of Leicester (UK), Mullard Space Science Laboratory-UCL (UK),
CEA-Saclay (France), Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg (France), CESR-Toulouse
(France), Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (Italy), Institute of Astronomy
- Cambridge (UK), Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam (Germany), Max Plank
Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik (Germany), Instituto de Física de
Cantabria CSIC-UC (Spain). The X-ray Astronoy group at IFCA tasks inside the SSC
are:
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XEUS/IXO: International X-ray ObservatoryIn July 2008, the International X-ray Observatory (IXO) was announced to the astronomical community. IXO is a joint X-ray observatory with participation from ESA, NASA and JAXA. The IXO mission supersedes the XEUS mission concept. "The International X-ray Observatory (IXO) is a next-generation facility designed to address some of the most fundamental questions in contemporary astrophysics and cosmology. Building on the accumulated knowledge acquired by the current (and previous) X-ray facilities IXO will address these primary goals":
The X-ray astronomy group at IFCA is involved in the
IXO project at various levels:
Our group has promoted the constitution of a Spanish consortium which participates in the design and construction of a prototype of a cryogenic imaging spectrometer working at soft X-ray energies and based on Transition Edge Sensors technology, under the lead of SRON. The institutes involved in the Spanish consortium are:
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