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Groningen space researchers at SRON to build 20-million-euro camera

April 13, 2018
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The Netherlands Institute for Space Research is set to make one giant leap for technology: SRON is moving forward with building a 20-million-euro camera to help further explore space.

The funding is for a camera annex spectrometer, X-IFU, for the new European Space Agency telescope Athena. The camera will help scientists to better understand the evolution of the universe.

The Groningen researchers have some time yet to develop the technology: Athena is currently scheduled to launch in 2030. X-IFU will be able to make two dimensional images and evaluate the characteristics of gasses at temperatures of up to 10 million degrees Kelvin.

SRON will take the lead in developing the extremely sensitive X-ray camera annex spectrometer. An international coalition of researchers will contribute other components: in Warmond and Enschede, researchers at cosine and Micronit respectively will develop the X-ray mirror in the telescope.

Jan Willem den Herder, leader of the X-IFU project, explains that Athena will be a more sensitive instrument which will be better able to detect material in space which is not yet well understood or observable. Athena will also enable researchers to learn more about how chemical elements come into existence, the evolution of black holes and what their role is in the development of the universe.

The subsidy for the SRON project is provided by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). The ESA Athena mission is projected to cost 2 billion euros. Including the X-IFU technology, the Netherlands’ total contribution to the mission is 50 million euros.

Correction: An earlier version of this story said the funding was for the development of the telescope. The funding is for a camera which is a component of the telescope.

Tags: astronomyAthenablack holescamera annex spectrometerEuropean Space AgencyNWOspaceSRONuniverseX-IFU

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