KORTES Mission for Solar Activity Monitoring Onboard International Space Station

Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

Vladimir Polkovnikov¹  Nikolay Salashchenko¹  Mikhail Toropov¹  Ilya Malyshev¹  Nikolay Chkhalo¹  Nikolay Tsybin¹  Alexey Pestov¹  Anton Reva²  Sergey Dyatkov²  Artem Ulyanov²  Andrey Pertsov²  Nataliya Erkhova²  Ivan Loboda²  Alexey Kirichenko²  Eugene Vishnyakov²  Sergey Kuzin²  Sergey Bogachev²  Sergey Shestov³  Daniel Ścisłowski⁴  Janusz Sylwester⁴  Mirosław Kowaliński⁴  Żaneta Szaforz⁴  Jarosław Bakała⁴  Piotr Podgórski⁴  Barbara Sylwester⁴  Tomasz Mrozek⁴  Stefan Płocieniak⁴  Marek Siarkowski⁴  Marek Stȩślicki⁴ 

[1] Institute for Physics of Microstructures, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia;Laboratory of X-Ray Astronomy of the Sun, Optics Department, P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia;Laboratory of X-Ray Astronomy of the Sun, Optics Department, P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia;Solar-Terrestrial Centre of Excellence—SIDC, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium;Space Research Center, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland;

关键词: solar corona;    solar flares;    polarimetry;    spectroscopy;    solar imaging;    extreme ultraviolet;    soft X-rays;    international space station;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fspas.2021.646895

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

We present a description of the recent advances in the development of the KORTES assembly—the first solar oriented mission designed for the Russian segment of the International Space Station. KORTES consists of several imaging and spectroscopic instruments collectively covering a wide spectral range extending from extreme ultraviolet (EUV) wavelengths to X-rays. The EUV telescopes inside KORTES will trace the origin and dynamics of various solar phenomena, e.g., flares, CMEs, eruptions etc. EUV spectra provided by grazing-incidence spectroheliographs will enable precise DEM-diagnostics during these events. The monochromatic X-ray imager will observe the formation of hot plasma in active regions and outside them. The SolpeX module inside KORTES will offer an opportunity to measure fluxes, Doppler shifts and polarization of soft X-ray emission both in lines and continuum. SolpeX observations will contribute to studies of particle beams and chromospheric evaporation. The instrumentation of KORTES will employ a variety of novel multilayer and crystal optics. The deployment of KORTES is planned for 2024.

【 授权许可】

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