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The superconducting transition's exquisite sensitivity to heat underlies a maturing technology for detecting photons as mentioned in this paper, which has been used for the detection of photons in the last few decades.Abstract:
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L-Edge Spectroscopy of Dilute, Radiation-Sensitive Systems Using a Transition-Edge-Sensor Array
Daniel S. Swetz,William B. Doriese,Joseph W. Fowler,Johnathon D. Gard,Gene C. Hilton,Kelsey M. Morgan,Galen C. O'Neil,Joel N. Ullom +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented X-ray absorption spectroscopy and resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) measurements on the iron L-edge of 0.5 mM aqueous ferricyanide.
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Phase-slip lines as a resistance mechanism in transition-edge sensors
TL;DR: In this paper, a model for the resistance of a transition-edge sensor based on phase-slip lines (PSLs) is presented, which can explain the observed switching between discrete current states in localized regions of bias.
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Development of highly sensitive nanoscale transition edge sensors for gigahertz astronomy and dark matter search
Federico Paolucci,Vittorio Buccheri,Gaia Germanese,Gaia Germanese,Nadia Ligato,Riccardo Paoletti,Giovanni Signorelli,Massimiliano Bitossi,P. Spagnolo,Paolo Falferi,Mauro Rajteri,Claudio Gatti,Francesco Giazotto +12 more
TL;DR: In this article, an aluminum/copper bilayer sensing structure was proposed for the transition edge sensor (TES) for the giga-terahertz (THz) band.
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Hypersensitive tunable Josephson escape sensor for gigahertz astronomy
Federico Paolucci,Nadia Ligato,Vittorio Buccheri,Gaia Germanese,Gaia Germanese,Pauli Virtanen,Francesco Giazotto +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, a Josephson escape sensor (JES) was proposed to detect single photons down to 2 GHz in frequency with a noise-equivalent power of 10−25−1/2 GHz.
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Enabling discoveries: a review of 30 years of advanced technologies and instrumentation at the National Science Foundation
P. Kurczynski,Staša Milojević +1 more
TL;DR: The Advanced Technologies and Instrumentation (ATI) program has provided grants to support technology development and instrumentation for ground-based astronomy for more than 30-year history.
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Thermal detectors as X-ray spectrometers
TL;DR: In this paper, the limits to the energy resolution of thermal detectors are derived and used to find the resolution to be expected for a detector suitable for X-ray spectroscopy in the 100 eV to 10,000 eV range.
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Review of superconducting transition-edge sensors for x-ray and gamma-ray spectroscopy
TL;DR: A review of x-ray and gamma-ray spectrometers based on arrays of superconducting transition-edge sensors (TESs) is presented in this paper, with a focus on recent progress in TES applications and in understanding TES physics.
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The Athena X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU)
Didier Barret,Thein Lam Trong,Jan-Willem den Herder,Luigi Piro,Xavier Barcons,Juhani Huovelin,Richard L. Kelley,J. Miguel Mas-Hesse,Kazuhisa Mitsuda,Stéphane Paltani,Gregor Rauw,Agata Różańska,Joern Wilms,Marco Barbera,Enrico Bozzo,María Teresa Ceballos,Ivan Charles,Anne Decourchelle,Roland den Hartog,J. M. Duval,Fabrizio Fiore,Flavio Gatti,Andrea Goldwurm,Brian Jackson,Peter G. Jonker,Caroline A. Kilbourne,Claudio Macculi,Mariano Mendez,Silvano Molendi,Piotr Orleanski,François Pajot,Etienne Pointecouteau,Frederick S. Porter,Gabriel W. Pratt,Damien Prêle,L. Ravera,Etienne Renotte,Joop Schaye,Keisuke Shinozaki,Luca Valenziano,Jacco Vink,Natalie A. Webb,Noriko Y. Yamasaki,Françoise Delcelier-Douchin,Michel Le Du,Jean-Michel Mesnager,Alice Pradines,Graziella Branduardi-Raymont,Mauro Dadina,Alexis Finoguenov,Yasushi Fukazawa,Agnieszka Janiuk,Jon M. Miller,Yaël Nazé,Fabrizio Nicastro,Salvatore Sciortino,Jose Miguel Torrejon,Hervé Geoffray,Isabelle Hernandez,Laure Luno,Philippe Peille,Jérôme André,Christophe Daniel,Christophe Etcheverry,Emilie Gloaguen,Jeremie Hassin,Gilles Hervet,Irwin Maussang,Jerome Moueza,Alexis Paillet,Bruno Vella,Gonzalo Campos Garrido,Jean-Charles Damery,C. Panem,Johan Panh,Simon R. Bandler,Jean-Marc Biffi,Kevin R. Boyce,Antoine Clénet,Michael J. DiPirro,Pierre Jamotton,Simone Lotti,Denis Schwander,Stephen J. Smith,Bert-Joost van Leeuwen,Henk van Weers,T. Brand,Beatriz Cobo,Thomas Dauser,Jelle de Plaa,Edoardo Cucchetti +90 more
TL;DR: The core scientific objectives of Athena are reviewed, driving the main performance parameters of the X-IFU, namely the spectral resolution, the field of view, the effective area, the count rate capabilities, the instrumental background and the breakthrough potential.
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A series array of DC SQUIDs
R.P. Welty,J.M. Martinis +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a series array of 100 DC SQUIDs has been fabricated using trilayer Nb-AlO/sub x/-Nb junctions, which produces an output voltage swing of several millivolts across the array.
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The Athena X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU)
Didier Barret,Thein Lam Trong,Jan-Willem den Herder,Luigi Piro,Xavier Barcons,Juhani Huovelin,Richard L. Kelley,J. Miguel Mas-Hesse,Kazuhisa Mitsuda,Stéphane Paltani,Gregor Rauw,Agata Różańska,Joern Wilms,Marco Barbera,Enrico Bozzo,María Teresa Ceballos,Ivan Charles,Anne Decourchelle,Roland den Hartog,J. M. Duval,Fabrizio Fiore,Flavio Gatti,Andrea Goldwurm,Brian Jackson,Peter G. Jonker,Caroline A. Kilbourne,Claudio Macculi,Mariano Mendez,Silvano Molendi,Piotr Orleanski,François Pajot,Etienne Pointecouteau,Frederick S. Porter,Gabriel W. Pratt,Damien Prêle,L. Ravera,Etienne Renotte,Joop Schaye,Keisuke Shinozaki,Luca Valenziano,Jacco Vink,Natalie A. Webb,Noriko Y. Yamasaki,Françoise Delcelier-Douchin,Michel Le Du,Jean-Michel Mesnager,Alice Pradines,Graziella Branduardi-Raymont,Mauro Dadina,Alexis Finoguenov,Yasushi Fukazawa,Agnieszka Janiuk,Jon M. Miller,Yaël Nazé,Fabrizio Nicastro,Salvatore Sciortino,Jose Miguel Torrejon,Hervé Geoffray,Isabelle Hernandez,Laure Luno,Philippe Peille,Jérôme André,Christophe Daniel,Christophe Etcheverry,Emilie Gloaguen,Jeremie Hassin,Gilles Hervet,Irwin Maussang,Jerome Moueza,Alexis Paillet,Bruno Vella,Gonzalo Campos Garrido,Jean-Charles Damery,C. Panem,Johan Panh,Simon R. Bandler,Jean-Marc Biffi,Kevin R. Boyce,Antoine Clénet,Michael J. DiPirro,Pierre Jamotton,Simone Lotti,Denis Schwander,Stephen J. Smith,Bert-Joost van Leeuwen,Henk van Weers,T. Brand,Beatriz Cobo,Thomas Dauser,Jelle de Plaa,Edoardo Cucchetti +90 more
TL;DR: The X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU) on board the Advanced Telescope for High-ENergy Astrophysics (Athena) will provide spatially resolved high-resolution Xray spectroscopy from 0.2 to 12 keV, with 5 arc second pixels over a field of view of 5 arc minute equivalent diameter and a spectral resolution of 2.5 eV up to 7 keV as mentioned in this paper.
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