ASTRO-HAthenaEuclideXTPTheseus
Stéphane Paltani

Euclid

Status: Euclid has been accepted on October 4th, 2011, as ESA's Cosmic Vision M2 mission. It is now in Extended Phase A. Launch is scheduled for Q4/2019.

Involvement:

  • Project: Member of the Tiger Team "Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations"
  • Hardware*: Responsible for the development of VI-SU, a high-reliability cryogenic shutter for the VIS instrument (Project manager and mechanical engineer: Ludovic Genolet):
  • Ground-segment: Swiss member of the Euclid Ground-segment Core Team
  • Ground-segment/Science*#: Leader of the Photometric-Redshift Organization Unit
  • Ground-segment*: Responsible of the Swiss Science Data Center (Project manager: Pierre Dubath)
*These activities are supported by the Prodex program of the Swiss Space Office
#These activities are supported by a Sinergia program of the Swiss national Science Foundation (1 postdoc)

ASTRO-H

Status: ASTRO-H is now in Phase C/D. Launch is scheduled for 2014.

Involvement:

  • Hardware*: Responsible for the development of a filter wheel for the Soft X-ray Spectrometer, the cryogenic calorimeter detector (Project manager: Philipp Azzarello)
  • Ground-segment%: Responsible of the ASTRO-H European Science Support Center
* These activities are supported by the Prodex program of the Swiss Space Office
% These activities are supported by the Swiss Space Office and the European Space agency

Athena

Status: Athena is currently in a Delta-assessment Phase, due to the move from the International X-ray Observatory to Athena. Athena awaits a decision for a Definition Phase in February 2012.

Involvement:

  • Hardware*: Responsible for the development of a filter wheel and a dewar door mechanism for the X-ray Microcalorimeter Spectrometer, the cryogenic calorimeter detector
  • Instrument/Ground-segment: Responsible of the data analysis work package for the X-ray Microcalorimeter Spectrometer; in charge of instrument monitoring and instrument-level EGSE
  • Ground-segment: ISDC representative in the Athena ground-segment working group
* These activities have been supported by the Prodex program of the Swiss Space Office