FOXSI Sounding Rocket
The Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager, or FOXSI, is a
microflare in the hard x-ray band for the first time.[3]
FOXSI's third mission, led by Lindsay Glesener of the University of Minnesota, had a successful launch on September 7, 2018, from White Sands, New Mexico. This iteration of the payload included a combination of Silicon and improved Cadmium Telluride detectors,[4] as well as one CMOS soft x-ray detector. Two of the telescope modules were updated from 7-shell to 10-shell configurations, and the payload also introduced collimator technology to reduce the impact of singly-reflected rays.[5]
References
- ^ Fox, Karen (November 1, 2015). "NASA-funded FOXSI to Observe X-Rays From Sun". NASA. Retrieved July 28, 2015.
- ^ Fox, Karen (July 27, 2015). "A Next-Generation X-Ray Telescope Launches". NASA. Archived from the original on September 19, 2015. Retrieved July 27, 2015.
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Krucker, S.; Christe, S.; Glesener, L.; Ishikawa, S.; Ramsey, B.; Takahashi, T.; Watanabe, S.; Saito, S.; Gubarev, M. (2014). "First Images from the Focusing Optics X-Ray Solar Imager". S2CID 121690445.
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Ishikawa, S.; Katsuragawa, M.; Watanabe, S.; Uchida, Y.; Takeda, S.; Takahashi, T.; Saito, S.; Glesener, L.; Buitrago-Casas, J. C. (2016). "Fine-pitch CdTe detector for hard X-ray imaging and spectroscopy of the Sun with the FOXSI rocket experiment". Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 121 (7): 6009–6016. S2CID 119179961.
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Buitrago-Casas, J. C.; Glesener, L.; Christe, S.; Ramsey, B.; Elsner, R.; Courtade, S.; Vievering, J.; Subramania, A.; Krucker, S.; Bale, S. (2017). "Methods for reducing singly reflected rays on the Wolter-I focusing mirrors of the FOXSI rocket experiment". Optics for EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Astronomy VIII. Proceedings of SPIE. Vol. 10399. p. 103990J. S2CID 21391189.