FOXSI-2: Upgrades of the Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager for its Second Flight

被引:30
作者
Christe, Steven [1 ]
Glesener, Lindsay [2 ,3 ]
Buitrago-Casas, Camilo [2 ]
Ishikawa, Shin-Nosuke [5 ]
Ramsey, Brian [4 ]
Gubarev, Mikhail [4 ]
Kilaru, Kiranmayee [4 ]
Kolodziejczak, Jeffery J. [4 ]
Watanabe, Shin [5 ,6 ]
Takahashi, Tadayuki [5 ,6 ]
Tajima, Hiroyasu [7 ]
Turin, Paul [2 ]
Shourt, Van [2 ]
Foster, Natalie [2 ]
Krucker, Sam [2 ,8 ]
机构
[1] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[2] Univ Calif Berkeley, Space Sci Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[3] Univ Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN USA
[4] NASA, Huntsville, AL USA
[5] Inst Space & Astronaut Sci ISAS JAXA, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
[6] Univ Tokyo, Dept Phys, Tokyo, Japan
[7] Nagoya Univ, Inst Space Earth Environm Res, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
[8] Univ Appl Sci & Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Windisch, Switzerland
基金
美国国家航空航天局;
关键词
Sun:X-rays; gamma rays; telescopes; instrumentation:detectors; rockets;
D O I
10.1142/S2251171716400055
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
The Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager (FOXSI) sounding rocket payload flew for the second time on 2014 December 11. To enable direct Hard X-Ray (HXR) imaging spectroscopy, FOXSI makes use of grazing-incidence replicated focusing optics combined with fine-pitch solid-state detectors. FOXSI's first flight provided the first HXR focused images of the Sun. For FOXSI's second flight several updates were made to the instrument including updating the optics and detectors as well as adding a new Solar Aspect and Alignment System (SAAS). This paper provides an overview of these updates as well as a discussion of their measured performance.
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