The Astrophysical Journal (Jan 2023)
The First Flight of the Marshall Grazing Incidence X-Ray Spectrometer (MaGIXS)
- Sabrina L. Savage,
- Amy R. Winebarger,
- Ken Kobayashi,
- P. S. Athiray,
- Dyana Beabout,
- Leon Golub,
- Robert W. Walsh,
- Brent Beabout,
- Stephen Bradshaw,
- Alexander R. Bruccoleri,
- Patrick R. Champey,
- Peter Cheimets,
- Jonathan Cirtain,
- Edward E. DeLuca,
- Giulio Del Zanna,
- Jaroslav Dudík,
- Anthony Guillory,
- Harlan Haight,
- Ralf K. Heilmann,
- Edward Hertz,
- William Hogue,
- Jeffery Kegley,
- Jeffery Kolodziejczak,
- Chad Madsen,
- Helen Mason,
- David E. McKenzie,
- Jagan Ranganathan,
- Katharine K. Reeves,
- Bryan Robertson,
- Mark L. Schattenburg,
- Jorg Scholvin,
- Richard Siler,
- Paola Testa,
- Genevieve D. Vigil,
- Harry P. Warren,
- Benjamin Watkinson,
- Bruce Weddendorf,
- Ernest Wright
Affiliations
- Sabrina L. Savage
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- NASA Marshall Space Flight Center , Huntsville, AL 35812, USA ; [email protected]
- Amy R. Winebarger
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- NASA Marshall Space Flight Center , Huntsville, AL 35812, USA ; [email protected]
- Ken Kobayashi
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- NASA Marshall Space Flight Center , Huntsville, AL 35812, USA ; [email protected]
- P. S. Athiray
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- NASA Marshall Space Flight Center , Huntsville, AL 35812, USA ; [email protected]; Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research, University of Alabama Huntsville , Huntsville, AL, 35812, USA
- Dyana Beabout
- NASA Marshall Space Flight Center , Huntsville, AL 35812, USA ; [email protected]
- Leon Golub
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- Center for Astrophysics ∣ Harvard & Smithsonian , Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- Robert W. Walsh
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- University of Central Lancashire , Preston, PR1 2HE, UK
- Brent Beabout
- NASA Marshall Space Flight Center , Huntsville, AL 35812, USA ; [email protected]
- Stephen Bradshaw
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy (MS 108), Rice University , 6100 Main Street, Houston, TX 77005, USA
- Alexander R. Bruccoleri
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- Izentis LLC , Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
- Patrick R. Champey
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- NASA Marshall Space Flight Center , Huntsville, AL 35812, USA ; [email protected]
- Peter Cheimets
- Center for Astrophysics ∣ Harvard & Smithsonian , Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- Jonathan Cirtain
- BWX Technologies , Lynchburg, VA 24504, USA
- Edward E. DeLuca
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- Center for Astrophysics ∣ Harvard & Smithsonian , Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- Giulio Del Zanna
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- DAMTP, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge , Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3, UK
- Jaroslav Dudík
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- Astronomical Institute , Czech Academy of Sciences, Fričova 298, 251 65 Ondřejov, Czech Republic
- Anthony Guillory
- NASA Marshall Space Flight Center , Huntsville, AL 35812, USA ; [email protected]
- Harlan Haight
- NASA Marshall Space Flight Center , Huntsville, AL 35812, USA ; [email protected]
- Ralf K. Heilmann
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
- Edward Hertz
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- Center for Astrophysics ∣ Harvard & Smithsonian , Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- William Hogue
- NASA Marshall Space Flight Center , Huntsville, AL 35812, USA ; [email protected]
- Jeffery Kegley
- NASA Marshall Space Flight Center , Huntsville, AL 35812, USA ; [email protected]
- Jeffery Kolodziejczak
- NASA Marshall Space Flight Center , Huntsville, AL 35812, USA ; [email protected]
- Chad Madsen
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- Center for Astrophysics ∣ Harvard & Smithsonian , Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- Helen Mason
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- DAMTP, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge , Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3, UK
- David E. McKenzie
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- NASA Marshall Space Flight Center , Huntsville, AL 35812, USA ; [email protected]
- Jagan Ranganathan
- NASA Marshall Space Flight Center , Huntsville, AL 35812, USA ; [email protected]
- Katharine K. Reeves
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- Center for Astrophysics ∣ Harvard & Smithsonian , Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- Bryan Robertson
- NASA Marshall Space Flight Center , Huntsville, AL 35812, USA ; [email protected]
- Mark L. Schattenburg
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
- Jorg Scholvin
- Izentis LLC , Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
- Richard Siler
- NASA Marshall Space Flight Center , Huntsville, AL 35812, USA ; [email protected]
- Paola Testa
- ORCiD
- Center for Astrophysics ∣ Harvard & Smithsonian , Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- Genevieve D. Vigil
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- NASA Marshall Space Flight Center , Huntsville, AL 35812, USA ; [email protected]
- Harry P. Warren
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- Space Science Division, Naval Research Laboratory , Washington, DC 20375, USA
- Benjamin Watkinson
- University of Central Lancashire , Preston, PR1 2HE, UK
- Bruce Weddendorf
- Weddendorf Design , Inc., Huntsville, AL 35803, USA
- Ernest Wright
- NASA Marshall Space Flight Center , Huntsville, AL 35812, USA ; [email protected]
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acbb58
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 945,
no. 2
p. 105
Abstract
The Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrometer (MaGIXS) sounding rocket experiment launched on 2021 July 30 from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. MaGIXS is a unique solar observing telescope developed to capture X-ray spectral images of coronal active regions in the 6–24 Å wavelength range. Its novel design takes advantage of recent technological advances related to fabricating and optimizing X-ray optical systems, as well as breakthroughs in inversion methodologies necessary to create spectrally pure maps from overlapping spectral images. MaGIXS is the first instrument of its kind to provide spatially resolved soft X-ray spectra across a wide field of view. The plasma diagnostics available in this spectral regime make this instrument a powerful tool for probing solar coronal heating. This paper presents details from the first MaGIXS flight, the captured observations, the data processing and inversion techniques, and the first science results.
Keywords
- Spectroscopy
- Solar active regions
- Solar x-ray emission
- Solar coronal heating
- Solar corona
- Active solar corona
