CIXS An X-ray spectrometer for ESA's Bepicolombo mission to Mercury

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Apr 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003eaeja....11508g&link_type=abstract

EGS - AGU - EUG Joint Assembly, Abstracts from the meeting held in Nice, France, 6 - 11 April 2003, abstract #11508

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The CIXS X-ray spectrometer is a high throughput spectrometer with solar and fluorescence monitors to provide the calibration necessary for absolute measurements of the mercurian surface. With an effective area of 58cm2 at 1keV and an energy resolution of 150eV, CIXS would provide unsurpassed X-ray information of the mercurian environment. The primary objective of CIXS will be to produce a global elemental map of the key rock-forming elements Mg, Al and Si, as well as numerous minor elements. Such a map would provide essential information in determining how Mercury formed and evolved. Since many of these elemental abundances cannot be measured with any other technique, this measurement is therefore essential to realising the science goals of the ESA BepiColombo. The planet Mercury presents a unique combination in the Solar System, of a planet with an active magnetosphere and no real atmosphere. Thus, there is a complex interaction of solar X-rays and energetic particles with the solid surface of the planet. Measurements of these interactions will provide largely independent remote sensing of the global processes in the mercurian magnetosphere. CIXS is explicitly designed with the capability for simultaneously undertaking both types of measurements.

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