1. The spectrometer telescope for imaging x-rays on board the Solar Orbiter mission
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Michał Mosdorf, Henry Aurass, Piotr Orleanski, André Csillaghy, Gottfried Mann, Anna Maria Massone, Emil Popow, Piotr Podgorski, Svend-Marian Bauer, A. Meuris, L. Iseli, I. W. Kienreich, G. J. Hurford, Jana Kašparová, Brian R. Dennis, H.-P. Gröbelbauer, Karol Seweryn, N. Vilmer, H. J. Wiehl, Olivier Limousin, G. Viertel, M. Piana, Janusz Sylwester, Martin Bednarzik, Alexander Warmuth, S. Klober, N. Hochmuth, František Fárník, J. Paschke, Peter T. Gallagher, Oliver Grimm, Rafal Graczyk, Säm Krucker, V. Commichau, Marcin Stolarski, Arnold O. Benz, M. Michalska, Frank Dionies, Konrad Skup, D. Wolker, R. A. Schwarz, Marina Battaglia, D. Plüschke, A. Przepiórka, W. Bittner, J. Rendtel, M. Woche, H. F. van Beek, Miroslaw Kowalinski, Tomasz Mrozek, L. Etesi, Astrid Veronig, Witold Nowosielski, S. Brun, Robert P. Lin, N. G. Arnold, D. S. Bloomfield, R. Resanovic, Andrzej Cichocki, and H. Önel
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Physics ,Cosmic Vision ,Spectrometer ,business.industry ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Detector ,Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Astronomy ,First light ,Solar physics ,law.invention ,Telescope ,Orbiter ,Imaging spectroscopy ,Optics ,law ,business - Abstract
The Spectrometer Telescope for Imaging X-rays (STIX) is one of 10 instruments on board Solar Orbiter, a confirmed Mclass mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) within the Cosmic Vision program scheduled to be launched in 2017. STIX applies a Fourier-imaging technique using a set of tungsten grids (at pitches from 0.038 to 1 mm) in front of 32 pixelized CdTe detectors to provide imaging spectroscopy of solar thermal and non-thermal hard X-ray emissions from 4 to 150 keV. The status of the instrument reviewed in this paper is based on the design that passed the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) in early 2012. Particular emphasis is given to the first light of the detector system called Caliste-SO.
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- 2012