The Advanced Technology Solar Spectroscopic Imager (ATSSI) - Solar EUV/Soft X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy using Transition-Edge Sensors

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We are developing a new sounding rocket payload, the Advanced Technology Solar Spectroscopic Imager (ATSSI), that will use an 8 x 8 array of transition edge sensors (TES) to obtain true spectroheliograms in a spectral bandpass spanning ~ 50 eV to ~ 3 keV. The TES array will be flown at the focus of a Wolter I telescope, where it will image a 3 arc-min by 3 arc-min field of view with a pixel resolution of ~ 6 arc-sec. In this way, it will obtain ~ 1000 individual spectra with an expected average energy resolution of ~ 3 eV FWHM. In addition to the TES array, the ATSSI will employ six multilayer telescopes with bandpasses centered on atomic lines at 17.1 Å (Fe XVII), 195.1 Å (Fe XII), 171.1 Å (Fe IX), 57.9 Å (Mg X), 98.3 Å (Ne VIII), and 150.1 Å (O VI). Two additional telescopes with bandpasses centered at 1550 Å (C IV) and 1216 Å (H I) will also be used. The eight narrowband telescopes will provide high spatial resolution (< 1 arc-sec), full-disk solar images and will be complemented by two grating slit spectroheliographs. One grating will obtain high resolution spectroheliograms between 2750 Å and 2850 Å (for Mg II h- and k-line studies), and the other will be multilayer-based and will probe the Fe IX/X - O V/VI complex around 171 Å (73 eV). With this set of instruments, we expect to explore more fully the nature of the energy flow between small- and large-scale coronal, chromospheric and transition region structures, as well as to address the issue of what mechanisms are responsible for heating the quiescent solar atmosphere.

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