Phd Thesis
Site: Merate (LC)
Duration
3 years
Tutors
Bianca Salmaso, Stefano Basso, Daniele Spiga.
Contact
bianca.salmaso AT inaf.it
Description
Introduction
ATHENA is an ESA mission. Within the ATHENA consortium, INAF-OAB works on the X-ray characterization; to this end, in the Merate seat we have realized BEaTriX, a world-unique X-ray calibration facility. BEaTriX generates a wide, parallel and monochromatic beam within a small lab, allowing us to directly measure the focusing accuracy of the SPO modules at their production rate.
For details about the facility, please refer to the web pages: facility BEaTriX
The PhD thesis targets the upgrade of the BEaTriX facility, to make it a reference facility in Italy for the X-ray tests of astrophysics from ground and from space, maintaining the ATHENA requirements. To this goal, the BEaTriX facility must be modified from the experimental chamber to the detector to host the detector at positions different than the 12m focal length of ATHENA and host optics bigger than the ATHENA mirror modules.
[Image credit: INAF-OAB]
