【10.9; Seminar】2024年粒子天体物理重点实验室系列学术报告 #48：PANTER——继往开来的空间天文台X射线光学标定

时间/Time: 10月9日上午9:00 / Wednesday, October 9th at 9:00 am

地点/Location: 多学科楼122会议室/Meeting Room 122, Multidisciplinary Building

报告人/Speaker: Vadim Burwitz (Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics)

题目/Title: PANTER——继往开来的空间天文台X射线光学标定

主持人/Host: 王于仨 研究员

摘要/Abstract：

The science driving the design of modern X-ray observatories always poses a large challenge to the X-ray observatory designers. The requirements for a large effective area, high spatial resolution, and a large field of view affect the optical design of the X-ray optics. In my talk, I will discuss the different X-ray optics technologies used in modern X-ray observatories.  To make such optics, adequate X-ray test facilities are needed to support their development, testing, and calibration. An overview of the different X-ray test facilities available worldwide for testing and calibrating these optics will be presented. A detailed description of the PANTER X-ray test facility of the Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and the work that has and is being done for current and planned X-ray observatories such as eROSITA, Einstein Probe, SVOM and ATHENA, eXTP, NASA probe missions respectively will be presented.

个人简介/Bibliography:

Vadim Burwitz is an Astrophysicist working at the Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) since 1997, mainly on the calibration of X-ray optics and the low energy transmission gratings for Chandra. Since 2011, he has been the head of MPE’s X-ray test facility PANTER; during this time, he and his team have supported through many tests, the development and calibration of the X-ray telescopes eROSITA, Einstein Probe, and SVOM that are currently in orbit.  

Since the IACHEC (International Astronomical Consortium for High-Energy Calibration) was founded in 2006, Vadim has led its “Isolated neutron star and white dwarf” working group to improve the cross-mission calibration below 1keV.

For the last ten years, he has also been heading the collaborative X-ray optics work package of the AHEAD and AHEAD2020 projects supported by the European Union.

He completed his PhD in 1997 on the topic of “X-ray and optical observations ROSAT discovered Magnetic cataclysmic variable stars”. And continues to work on many different topics as part of the Chandra GTO observations, especially on the isolated neutron star RX 1856-3754.