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Note that the name Athena or ATHENA has a number of common uses in current astrophysics, among them:
ATHENA (for Advanced Telescope for High Energy Astrophysics) is a planned ESA X-ray-telescope space mission aiming for a 2035 launch for an L2 Lagrangian point deployment. It aims for an angular resolution on the order of 5 arcseconds. Instruments:
Athena is the name of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) code developed at Princeton University.
Athena is the name of a code to find second-order correlation functions (N-point functions), e.g., to analyze observed galaxy distributions in search of instances of gravitational lensing.
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