Calibration of the MaGIXS experiment II: Flight Instrument Calibration

The Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrometer (MaGIXS) is a sounding rocket experiment that observes the soft X-ray spectrum of the Sun from 6.0 - 24 Angstrom (0.5 - 2.0 keV), successfully launched on 30 July 2021. End-to-end alignment of the flight instrument and calibration experiments are car...

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Veröffentlicht in:arXiv.org 2021-09
Hauptverfasser: Athiray, P S, Winebarger, Amy R, Champey, Patrick, Kobayashi, Ken, Savage, Sabrina, Beabout, Brent, Beabout, Dyana, Broadway, David, Bruccoleri, Alexander R, Cheimets, Peter, Golub, Leon, Gullikson, Eric, Haight, Harlan, Heilmann, Ralf K, Hertz, Edward, Hogue, William, Johnson, Steven, Kegley, Jeffrey, Kolodziejczak, Jeffery, Madsen, Chad, Schattenburg, Mark L, Siler, Richard, Vigil, Genevieve D, Wright, Ernest
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Zusammenfassung:The Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrometer (MaGIXS) is a sounding rocket experiment that observes the soft X-ray spectrum of the Sun from 6.0 - 24 Angstrom (0.5 - 2.0 keV), successfully launched on 30 July 2021. End-to-end alignment of the flight instrument and calibration experiments are carried out using the X-ray and Cryogenic Facility (XRCF) at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. In this paper, we present the calibration experiments of MaGIXS, which include wavelength calibration, measurement of line spread function, and determination of effective area. Finally, we use the measured instrument response function to predict the expected count rates for MaGIXS flight observation looking at a typical solar active region
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.2109.01720