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The Canadian Astronomical Society’s 2020 Long Range Plan for Canadian Astronomy (LRP2020) has called for further development for the science case and technology for the Colibrì mission.

Neutron-star working group leader Samar Safi-Harb has been awarded a FAST grant in the 2019 competition to explore how high-throughput, high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy will revolutionize our understanding of neutron stars and black holes. Congratulations Samar!

After our eighteen-month study we have submitted our final report to the CSA. Congratulations to the team!

Project Scientist Ilaria Caiazzo presented the landscape for X-ray spectroscopy for the next decade at the LRP2020 townhall in Vancouver on 26 November.

Project Manager Kelsey Hoffman presented the Colibrì mission to the LRP2020 townhall in the Canadian Space Agency on 31 October.

Neutron-Star Working Group Lead Samar Safi-Harb presented the Colibrì mission at the meeting, The cosmos at high-energies: exploring extreme physics through novel instrumentation. Her talk was titled: Neutron stars as drivers for interdisciplinary connections, new X-ray missions and multi-messenger astrophysics. Here’s the part about Colibrì.

Neutron-star Science Lead Samar Safi-Harb has developed a program of research to prepare for the next generation of high-energy resolution and high-throughput X-ray astronomy, building on the legacy of Hitomi toward the future with XRISM, ATHENA and Colibrì.

Principal investigator Jeremy Heyl presented a Colibrì poster at X-ray Astronomy 2019 in Bologna in September.

Neutron-Star Working Group member Craig Heinke presents “Prospects for measuring the neutron star equation of state with high resolution spectroscopy,” including Colibrì, at XCalibur 2019.