Technology development of Athena WFI frame processor electronics and verification of its real-time performance

Markus Plattner; Sebastian Albrecht; Olaf Hälker; Andreas Lederhuber; Norbert Meidinger; Sabine Ott; Samuel Pliego; Jonas Reiffers; Thomas Schanz; Jan-Christoph Tenzer

doi:10.1117/12.2562200

13 December 2020 Technology development of Athena WFI frame processor electronics and verification of its real-time performance

Markus Plattner, Sebastian Albrecht, Olaf Hälker, Andreas Lederhuber, Norbert Meidinger, Sabine Ott, Samuel Pliego, Jonas Reiffers, Thomas Schanz, Jan-Christoph Tenzer

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Proceedings Volume 11444, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray; 1144447 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562200
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2020, Online Only

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The core element of the Athena Wide-Field-Imager (WFI) is its detector assembly. The scientific raw data rate, depending on the observation mode, reaches values up to 3.65 Gbit/s. We demonstrate the error-free real-time processing capability using an input data stream that simulates scientific observations, e.g. a crab-like point source with 78,000 up to 195,000 photons per second.

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Markus Plattner, Sebastian Albrecht, Olaf Hälker, Andreas Lederhuber, Norbert Meidinger, Sabine Ott, Samuel Pliego, Jonas Reiffers, Thomas Schanz, and Jan-Christoph Tenzer "Technology development of Athena WFI frame processor electronics and verification of its real-time performance", Proc. SPIE 11444, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 1144447 (13 December 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562200

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