"GoldHelox": A Robotic Soft X-Ray Solar Telescope

Details "GoldHelox": A Robotic Soft X-Ray Solar Telescope "GoldHelox": A Robotic Soft X-Ray Solar Telescope

Jan 1998

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998baas...30..764b&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society Meeting, 191, #128.05

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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NASA G-133, also known as the "GoldHelox" Project, is a robotic soft x-ray telescope to be flown aboard a NASA space shuttle. An alternating layer of molybdenum and silicon, multi-layered, mirrors are used in conjunction with a micro-channel plate (MCP) detector. The telescope will take 300 full disk images of the sun with a spatial resolution of 2.5\arcsec and a temporal resolution of one second. The x-ray wavelengths to be imaged are 171 Angstroms to 181 Angstroms corresponding to the highly ionized Fe IX, Fe X, Fe XI lines. These data will contribute to an understanding of four questions: (1) What is the structure of solar flares when they are beginning to form? (2) What mechanisms causes the initial energy release in a solar flare? (3) What is the relationship between coronal mass ejections, microflares, and the high resolution upper transition region magnetic structures? (4) How does the transition region between the corona and chromosphere respond to the impulse phase of flares?

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