Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
May 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002aas...200.7601l&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, 200th AAS Meeting, #76.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 34, p.775
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Scientific paper
The RHESSI mission investigates particle acceleration and energy release in solar flares, through imaging and spectroscopy of hard X-ray/gamma-ray continuum and gamma-ray lines emitted by energetic electrons and ions, respectively. Imaging is achieved with nine bi-grid rotating modulation collimators, each with a cooled segmented germanium detector to cover from 3 keV to 17 MeV. RHESSI provides the first imaging spectroscopy in hard X-rays with 2 arcsec angular resolution, time resolution to tens of ms, and 1 keV energy resolution; the first gamma-ray line spectroscopy with 2-5 keV energy resolution; and the first gamma-ray line and continuum imaging with 36-arcsecond angular resolution. The Sun-pointed spin-stabilized RHESSI spacecraft was successfuly launched on 5 February 2002 into a 600 km altitude, 38 degree inclination orbit, and began observations a week later. All the data and the analysis software have been made available to the scientific community. I will describe the unique capabilities of RHESSI and present some initial results from the first few months of operation.
Lin Robert P.
Rhessi Team
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