Ghost-ray reduction and early results from the third FOXSI sounding rocket flight

Sophie Musset; Juan Camilo Buitrago-Casas; Lindsay Glesener; Stephen Bongiorno; Sasha Courtade; P. S. Athiray; Juliana Vievering; Shin Nosuke Ishikawa; Noriyuki Narukage; Kento Furukawa; Daniel Ryan; Greg Dalton; Zoe Turin; Lance Davis; Tadayuki Takahashi; Shin Watanabe; Ikuyuki Mitsuishi; Kouichi Hagino; Tomoko Kawate; Paul Turin; Steven Christe; Brian Ramsey; Säm Krucker

doi:10.1117/12.2530029

Ghost-ray reduction and early results from the third FOXSI sounding rocket flight

Sophie Musset, Juan Camilo Buitrago-Casas, Lindsay Glesener, Stephen Bongiorno, Sasha Courtade, P. S. Athiray, Juliana Vievering, Shin Nosuke Ishikawa, Noriyuki Narukage, Kento Furukawa, Daniel Ryan, Greg Dalton, Zoe Turin, Lance Davis, Tadayuki Takahashi, Shin Watanabe, Ikuyuki Mitsuishi, Kouichi Hagino, Tomoko Kawate, Paul TurinSteven Christe, Brian Ramsey, Säm Krucker

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Abstract

The Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager (FOXSI) sounding rocket experiment demonstrates the technique of focusing hard X-ray (HXR) optics for the study of fundamental questions about the high-energy Sun. Solar HXRs provide one of the most direct diagnostics of accelerated electrons and the impulsive heating of the solar corona. Previous solar missions have been limited in sensitivity and dynamic range by the use of indirect imaging, but technological advances now make direct focusing accessible in the HXR regime, and the FOXSI rocket experiment optimizes HXR focusing telescopes for the unique scientific requirements of the Sun. FOXSI has completed three successful flights between 2012 and 2018. This paper gives a brief overview of the experiment, focusing on the third flight of the instrument on 2018 Sept. 7. We present the telescope upgrades highlighting our work to understand and reduce the effects of singly reflected X-rays and show early science results obtained during FOXSI's third flight.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XXI
Editors	Oswald H. Siegmund
Publisher	SPIE
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510629295
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2530029
State	Published - 2019
Event	UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XXI 2019 - San Diego, United States Duration: Aug 11 2019 → Aug 13 2019

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	11118
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

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Conference	UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XXI 2019
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Diego
Period	8/11/19 → 8/13/19

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers JP17H04832, JP16H02170, JP16H03966, JP24244021, JP20244017, and World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI), MEXT, Japan.

Funding Information:
This work was supported by NASA Headquarters under the NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship Program Grant 80NSSC17K0430.

Funding Information:
The FOXSI-3 sounding rocket is funded by NASA LCAS grant NNX16AL60G. We acknowledge the NSF for its support of space physics at UMN via a faculty development grant AGS-1429512. The FOXSI team is grateful to the NSROC teams at WSMR and Wallops for the excellent operation of their systems. Furthermore, the authors would like to acknowledge the contributions of each member of the FOXSI experiment team to the project, particularly our team members at ISAS and Kavli IPMU for the provision of Si and CdTe detectors and at MSFC for the fabrication of the focusing optics.

Funding Information:
This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant JP16H02170, JP15H03647, JP21540251.

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© COPYRIGHT SPIE. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.

Keywords

The Sun
X-ray focusing optics
X-rays
high-energy
sounding rocket

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Musset, S., Buitrago-Casas, J. C., Glesener, L., Bongiorno, S., Courtade, S., Athiray, P. S., Vievering, J., Ishikawa, S. N., Narukage, N., Furukawa, K., Ryan, D., Dalton, G., Turin, Z., Davis, L., Takahashi, T., Watanabe, S., Mitsuishi, I., Hagino, K., Kawate, T., ... Krucker, S. (2019). Ghost-ray reduction and early results from the third FOXSI sounding rocket flight. In O. H. Siegmund (Ed.), UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XXI Article 1111812 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 11118). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2530029

Ghost-ray reduction and early results from the third FOXSI sounding rocket flight. / Musset, Sophie; Buitrago-Casas, Juan Camilo; Glesener, Lindsay et al.
UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XXI. ed. / Oswald H. Siegmund. SPIE, 2019. 1111812 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 11118).

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Musset, S, Buitrago-Casas, JC, Glesener, L, Bongiorno, S, Courtade, S, Athiray, PS, Vievering, J, Ishikawa, SN, Narukage, N, Furukawa, K, Ryan, D, Dalton, G, Turin, Z, Davis, L, Takahashi, T, Watanabe, S, Mitsuishi, I, Hagino, K, Kawate, T, Turin, P, Christe, S, Ramsey, B & Krucker, S 2019, Ghost-ray reduction and early results from the third FOXSI sounding rocket flight. in OH Siegmund (ed.), UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XXI., 1111812, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 11118, SPIE, UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XXI 2019, San Diego, United States, 8/11/19. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2530029

Musset S, Buitrago-Casas JC, Glesener L, Bongiorno S, Courtade S, Athiray PS et al. Ghost-ray reduction and early results from the third FOXSI sounding rocket flight. In Siegmund OH, editor, UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XXI. SPIE. 2019. 1111812. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering). doi: 10.1117/12.2530029

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