X-ray Astrophysics


Welcome to the web page of the X-ray Astrophysics group at the University of Miami. In these pages you will find information on who we are, what we do, as well as a brief introduction to the topics of X-ray Astrophysics and Microcalorimeters. Also included are descriptions of the experiments we are involved with, and the publications resulting from this work. The group has just started its activity in August 2002, as Dr. Massimiliano Galeazzi moved to the University of Miami from the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. 

The group is involved in two main activities:

  • The study of the diffuse X-ray background and its relation with the composition and evolution of the interstellar and intergalactic medium.
  • The development of high performance X-ray detectors called cryogenic microcalorimeters. 
Following the links on the left you will find a short synopsis of the work we are doing in the field of X-ray Astrophysics. Included in this discussion: what kind of X-rays we are studying, where they are coming from, what they tell us about the Universe, and what kind of instruments we use to detect them. In addition to the introduction to our work, we provide a brief review of X-ray Astrophysics, and microcalorimeters, the devices we use in our work. 

The EXPERIMENTS page lists the past, present, and future experiments of which we have been a part, and provides a short description of each project. From this page one can reach individual pages for each experiment that provide further detail about the project.