Ghost ray reduction and early results from the third FOXSI sounding rocket flight

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作者
Musset, Sophie [1 ]
Buitrago-Casas, Juan Camilo [2 ]
Glesener, Lindsay [1 ]
Bongiorno, Stephen [3 ]
Courtade, Sasha [2 ]
Athiraya, P. S. [1 ,3 ]
Vievering, Juliana [1 ]
Ishikawa, Shin-Nosuke [4 ]
Narukage, Noriyuki [5 ]
Furukawa, Kento [6 ]
Ryan, Daniel [7 ]
Dalton, Gregory [2 ]
Turin, Zoe [10 ,12 ]
Davisa, Lance [1 ,11 ]
Takahashi, Tadayuki [6 ]
Watanabe, Shin [8 ]
Mitsuishi, Ikuyuki [4 ]
Hagino, Kouichi [9 ]
Kawate, Tomoko [8 ]
Turin, Paul [2 ]
Christe, Steven [7 ]
Ramsey, Brian [3 ]
Krucker, Sam [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Minnesota, 116 Church St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
[2] Univ Calif Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[3] NASA, Marshall Space Flight Ctr, Huntsville, AL USA
[4] Nagoya Univ, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
[5] Natl Astron Observ Japan, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan
[6] Univ Tokyo, Kavli Inst Phys & Math Universe WPI, Tokyo, Japan
[7] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD USA
[8] Japan Aerosp Explorat Agcy, Inst Space & Astronaut Sci, Chofu, Tokyo, Japan
[9] Tokyo Univ Sci, Tokyo, Japan
[10] Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[11] Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824 USA
[12] Georgia Inst Technol, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA
关键词
The Sun; high-energy; X-rays; sounding rocket; X-ray focusing optics; CDTE DETECTOR;
D O I
10.1117/12.2530029
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 experiment demonstrates the technique of focusing hard X-ray (HXR) optics for the study of fundamental questions about the high-energy Sun. Solar HXRs provide one of the most direct diagnostics of accelerated electrons and the impulsive heating of the solar corona. Previous solar missions have been limited in sensitivity and dynamic range by the use of indirect imaging, but technological advances now make direct focusing accessible in the HXR regime, and the FOXSI rocket experiment optimizes HXR focusing telescopes for the unique scientific requirements of the Sun. FOXSI has completed three successful flights between 2012 and 2018. This paper gives a brief overview of the experiment, focusing on the third flight of the instrument on 2018 Sept. 7. We present the telescope upgrades highlighting our work to understand and reduce the effects of singly reflected X-rays and show early science results obtained during FOXSI's third flight.
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