Design, Testing, and Implementation of the Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrometer Slit-Jaw Context Imaging System

Phillip Wilkerson ; Vigil, Genevieve ; Winebarger, Amy ; Champey, Patrick ; Kobayashi, Ken ; Donders, Nicolas

关键词: CAMERAS;    DESIGN ANALYSIS;    SLITS;    SPATIAL RESOLUTION;    SOUNDING ROCKETS;    SPECTRAL RESOLUTION;    X RAY SPECTROMETERS;    TELESCOPES;    IMAGING TECHNIQUES;    PAYLOADS;   

RP-ID  :  MSFC-E-DAA-TN76460

学科分类：原子、分子光学和等离子物理

美国|英语

来源: NASA Technical Reports Server

【 摘 要 】

The Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrometer (MaGIXS) is a NASA sounding rocket payload providing a 0.6 – 2.5 nm spectrum with unprecedented spatial and spectral resolution. The instrument is comprised of a novel optical design, featuring a Wolter 1 grazing mirror in the telescope module focusing the solar image on a slit plate; two corrective optics, a diffraction grating and a low-noise detector make up the spectrometer module. When MaGIXS flies on a suborbital launch in 2020, a slit-jaw camera system will image the sun in extreme ultraviolet (EUV) to soft x-ray wavelengths, providing a reference for pointing the telescope and aligning the data to supporting observations from satellites.