High-resolution grazing incidence telescope for the Solar-B observatory

Leon Golub; Edward E. DeLuca; Jay A. Bookbinder; Peter Cheimets; Kiyoto Shibasaki; Taro Sakao; Ryouhei Kano

doi:10.1117/12.410531

18 December 2000 High-resolution grazing incidence telescope for the Solar-B observatory

Leon Golub, Edward E. DeLuca, Jay A. Bookbinder, Peter Cheimets, Kiyoto Shibasaki, Taro Sakao, Ryouhei Kano

Proceedings Volume 4139, Instrumentation for UV/EUV Astronomy and Solar Missions; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.410531
Event: International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, 2000, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

The X-ray observations from the Yohkoh SXT provided the greatest step forward in our understanding of the solar corona in nearly two decades. We believe that the scientific objectives of the Solar-B mission can best be achieved with an X-ray telescope (XRT) similar to the SXT, but with significant improvements in spatial resolution and in temperature response that take into account the knowledge gained from Yohkoh. We present the scientific justification for this view, discuss the instrumental requirements that flow from the scientific objectives, and describe the instrumentation that will meet these requirements. XRT is a grazing-incidence (GI) modified Wolter I X-ray telescope, of 35 cm inner diameter and 2.7 m focal length. The 2048 X 2048 back-illuminated CCD has 13.5 (mu) pixels, corresponding to 1.0 arcsec and giving full Sun field of view. This will be the highest resolution GI X-ray telescope ever flown for Solar coronal studies, and it has been designed specifically to observe both the high and low temperature coronal plasma.

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Leon Golub, Edward E. DeLuca, Jay A. Bookbinder, Peter Cheimets, Kiyoto Shibasaki, Taro Sakao, and Ryouhei Kano "High-resolution grazing incidence telescope for the Solar-B observatory", Proc. SPIE 4139, Instrumentation for UV/EUV Astronomy and Solar Missions, (18 December 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.410531

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