Soft X-ray images of the solar corona with a normal-incidence Cassegrain multilayer telescope

Details Soft X-ray images of the solar corona with a normal-incidence Cassegrain multilayer telescope Soft X-ray images of the solar corona with a normal-incidence Cassegrain multilayer telescope

Sep 1988

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1988sci...241.1781w&link_type=abstract

Science (ISSN 0036-8075), vol. 241, Sept. 30, 1988, p. 1781-1787.

Physics

Optics

82

Cassegrain Optics, Solar Corona, Telescopes, X Ray Imagery, High Temperature Plasmas, Laminates, Particle Emission

Scientific paper

High-resolution images of the sun in the soft X-ray to EUV regime have been obtained with normal-incidence Cassegrain multilayer telescopes operated from a sounding rocket in space. The inherent energy-selective property of multilayer-coated optics allowed distinct groups of emission lines to be isolated in the solar corona and the transition region. The Cassegrain telescopes provided images in bands centered at 173 and 256 A. The bandpass centered at 173 A is dominated by emission from the ions Fe IX and Fe X. This emission is from coronal plasma in the temperature range (8-14) x 10 to the 6th K. The images have angular resolution of about 1.0-1.5 arcsec and show no degradation because of X-ray scattering. Many features of coronal structure, including magnetically confined loops of hot plasma, coronal plumes, polar coronal holes, faint structures on the size scale of supergranulation and smaller, and features due to everlying cool prominences are visible in the images. The density structure of polar plumes, which are thought to contribute to the solar wind, has been derived from the observations out to 1.7 solar radii.

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