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

[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.

[发布日期] 2019-12-09

[学科分类] 原子、分子光学和等离子物理

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