Athena Conference 2022

Official Twitter account for the 3rd scientific conference dedicated to @AthenaXobs; CosmoCaixa, Barcelona 7-10 Nov 2022. tweets by @drvgraber and @Almarino_Sci

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The 3rd Athena Conference highlights a thriving “Hot and Energetic Universe” science case. #Athena2022 summary by Matteo Guainazzi (@esascience) & Nanda Rea (@iSpaceSci) 👇🏼

https://t.co/Xzns1uPz1V

"Athena remains the X-ray observatory posed to deliver transformational results"

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What a journey! We want to thank all the participants of this conference for making such a lively and exciting meeting. Seeing different generations of X-ray astronomers all together, sharing their breakthrough science has been simply amazing. The #Athena2022 LOC.

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However, we acknowledge that there is still a long road ahead to level the playing field, as the data on gender balance at this conference show. We firmly believe that science thrives in inclusive & diverse communities. It’s our mission to continue to improve this representation.

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Gender imbalance remains a big issue in our community. You may have noticed that none of the session chairs at #Athena2022 were male. We made this choice to prioritise voices that are traditionally marginalised in science.

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We are all very curious about what we should expect from NewAthena. Let’s find out with the final talk of this conference, “The NewAthena mission” by Frederic Safa. #Athena2022

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And we are kicking off the final session of our 3rd Athena Meeting dedicated to Athena in the wider context of scientific missions. The first talk by Giorgio Matt is on the Scientific highlights of the IXPE mission #Athena2022

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Moving on, Lorenzo Amati will talk about next generation GRB missions illustrating their synergies with Athena

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To conclude this last morning session, we have a remote contribution from Thomas Dauser on SIXTE: The Athena end-to-end simulator #Athena2022

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And we are back after the coffee break with the first talk by Marcos Bavdaz on Athena optics technology development #Athena2022

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The penultimate talk of this session is given by Randall Smith on behalf of Andrew Ptak to give an overview of NASA's involvement with Athena #Athena2022

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The final talk of this session is focused on “Charge exchange (CX): the present knowledge and future”, by Liyi Gu. #athena2022

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Aaaand we are back on #Athena2022 with a session all dedicated to instrumentation! Our first (online) speaker is Gunther Hasinger who will present “Athena in the ESA Science Program”.

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Up next, Philippe Peille will update us on the rescope and performance optimisation for NewAthena’s X-IFU. #athena2022

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In case you wanted to watch again that incredible @AthenaXIFU video here ⬇️ https://t.co/EzdrsLLE4Y ⬇️ is the link! #athena2022