@inproceedings{5e79b7fa89c44f309cd7f2117a2a5362,
title = "US Contributions to the Athena Wide Field Imager",
abstract = "The world's premier X-ray astronomical observatories, Chandra and XMM-Newton, have been operating for about 20 years. The next flagship X-ray observatory launched will be ESA's Athena mission. We discuss planned US contributions to the Athena Wide Field Imager instrument, which encompass transient source detection, background characterization and reduction, and detector electronics design and testing, in addition to scientific contributions.",
author = "Burrows, {David N.} and Steve Allen and Marshall Bautz and Esra Bulbul and Tanmoy Chattopadhyay and Julia Erdley and Falcone, {Abraham D.} and Grant, {Catherine E.} and Sven Herrmann and Hornschemeier, {Ann E.} and Doug Kelly and Jamie Kennea and Kraft, {Ralph P.} and Beverly Lamarr and Adam Mantz and Miller, {Eric D.} and Morris, {R. Glenn} and Paul Nulsen and Pragati Pradhan and Neven Vulic and Dan Wilkins and Zugger, {Michael E.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} COPYRIGHT SPIE. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.; UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XXI 2019 ; Conference date: 11-08-2019 Through 13-08-2019",
year = "2019",
doi = "10.1117/12.2528532",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "Siegmund, {Oswald H.}",
booktitle = "UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XXI",
address = "United States",
}