5th Athena/WFI Proto-Consortium Meeting

Palermo, 25 - 26 January 2017

 Palazzo Chiaramonte Steri

Piazza Marina, 61

AGENDA

Day 0 (Tuesday January 24^th):

19:00  Welcome Reception at Antonio Pasqualino International Puppet Museum

Day 1 (Wednesday January 25^th):

09:00-11:00  Mission and Project Overview (chair: Barbera)

- (15) Welcome

- (30*) Nandra: Athena Project Status

- (20) Stefanescu: Athena Study Status

- (20) Meidinger:  WFI Status Overview

- (20) Pajot: X-IFU Status Overview

- (15) Plattner: SIM overview

11:00-11:30  Coffee Break

11:30-12:55  Detector Development (chair: Meidinger)

- (5) Meidinger: Overview

- (20) Lechner: Status Sensor Development

- (20) Treberspurg: Spectroscopic Performance of the WFI Prototype Sensors  

- (20) Müller-Seidlitz: Readout speed and Charge Removal - The Advantages of Linear Gate DEPFETs

- (20) Koch: Status of Veritas and Switcher FEE ASICs

12:55-15:00  Lunch Break (Science Team Meeting)

15:00-16:40  Detector Electronics (chair: Plattner)

- (5) Plattner: Overview

- (20) Ott: DE Labsystem and Emulator

- (20) Albrecht: DE Concept and Status of Breadboarding

- (20) Tenzer: Status of Frame Processor

- (20) Thomas: Power Conditioning Module for WFI Detector Electronics

- (15) Skup: WFI Power Distribution Unit Concept

16:40-17:15  Coffee Break

17:15-18:35  Thermal/Mechanical Conceptual Design and Background (chair:  Rau)

- (20) Manhart: Mechanical System Concept

- (20) Fürmetz: Thermal System Design

- (20) von Kienlin: Instrumental background

- (20) Hall/Keelan: Athena WFI Graded-Z shield: Preliminary Proton Test Campaign

20:30 Conference Dinner at Osteria di Ballaro'

Day 2 (Thursday January 26^th)

09:00-10:40  Filter Wheel & ICPU (chair: Meidinger)

- (5) Meidinger: Overview

- (20) Barbera: Filter design and development activities

- (20) Polak: Filter wheel development

- (20) März: Analysis of acoustic environmental factors on ATHENA for WFI

- (5) Plattner: Overview

- (15) Kuvvetli: Analog I/F board for ICPU

- (15) Steller: Central Processing Module of ICPU

10:40-11:15  Coffee Break

11:15-13:00  Science Related Activities (chair: Nandra)

- (20) Rau: Science Team Activities and Science Requirements Update

- (20) Allen: Reverberation Mapping: utilizing the WFI fast readout capability

- (20) Burrows: Science Products Module

- (20) Wilms: Update to the SIXTE Simulator

- (25) Science Ground Segment (Haberl/Watson)

13:00-15:00  Lunch Break (Consortium Board Meeting)

15:00-16:45  Conclusion (chair: Rau)             

- (20) Tsuru: CCD camera (SXI) onboard Hitomi and outlook on XARM

- (10) Nandra: Concluding Remarks

- (75) Discussions and ad-hoc splinter sessions

16:45-17:15  Coffee

*) Noted allocations (in minutes) include the time for questions.