Thermal modelling of the ATHENA X-IFU filters

Luisa Sciortino; Ugo Lo Cicero; Salvatore Ferruggia Bonura; Fabio D'Anca; Antonino Buttacavoli; Elena Puccio; Marco Barbera

doi:10.1117/12.2314453

6 July 2018 Thermal modelling of the ATHENA X-IFU filters

Luisa Sciortino, Ugo Lo Cicero, Salvatore Ferruggia Bonura, Fabio D'Anca, Antonino Buttacavoli, Elena Puccio, Marco Barbera

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Proceedings Volume 10699, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray; 1069950 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2314453
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2018, Austin, Texas, United States

Abstract

The X-IFU instrument of the ATHENA mission requires a set of thermal filters to reduce the photon shot noise onto its cryogenic detector and to protect it from molecular contamination. A set of five filters, operating at different nominal temperatures corresponding to the cryostat shield temperatures, is currently baselined. The knowledge of the actual filter temperature profiles is crucial to have a good estimation of the radiative load on the detector. Furthermore, a few filters may need to be warmed-up to remove contaminants and it is necessary to ensure that a threshold temperature is reached throughout the filters surface. For these reasons, it is fundamental to develop a thermal modeling of the full set of filters in a representative configuration. The baseline filter is a polyimide membrane 45 nm thick coated with 30 nm of highpurity aluminum, mechanically supported by a metallic honeycomb mesh. In this paper, we describe the implemented thermal modeling and report the results obtained in different studies: (i) a trade-off analysis on how to reach a minimum target temperature throughout the outer filter, (ii) a thermal analysis when varying the emissivity of the filter surfaces, and (iii) the effect of removing one of the filters.

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Luisa Sciortino, Ugo Lo Cicero, Salvatore Ferruggia Bonura, Fabio D'Anca, Antonino Buttacavoli, Elena Puccio, and Marco Barbera "Thermal modelling of the ATHENA X-IFU filters", Proc. SPIE 10699, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 1069950 (6 July 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2314453

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