Paper 13093-269
Paper 13093-269
Goals of the Swift Solar Activity X-ray Imager (SSAXI-Rocket) Rocket experiment
19 June 2024 • 17:30 - 19:00 Japan Standard Time | Room G5, North - 1F
Abstract
The Swift Solar Activity X-ray Imager (SSAXI-Rocket) Instrument is a ride along instrument to the High Resolution Coronal Imager (Hi-C) Flare NASA sounding rocket launch campaign scheduled for the Spring 2024. In the short 5-minute rocket flight, SSAXI-Rocket will measure the soft X-ray near-peak emission phase of a large solar flare. SSAXI-Rocket combines small X-ray focusing optics and a high-speed readout detector, to image the flare with minimized image saturation and pixel signal blooming. These high-time cadence measurements can help uncover the soft X-ray intensity variations which can provide constraints on the intermittent heating processes in the flare magnetic loops.
Presenter
Ctr. for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (United States)
Dr. Christopher S. Moore is currently at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics holding a dual appointment with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) and Harvard College Observatory (HCO). Dr. Moore’s current science research focuses on the solar corona. Specifically, working on techniques to improve constraints on the plasma temperature distribution, elemental abundances, and deriving connections between magnetic and radiative fluxes. Dr. Moore utilizes X-ray and EUV observations, compares them to models and works to develop new instrumentation for better measurements. Dr. Moore’s current instrumentation research includes working to develop new soft X-ray and EUV spectrometers and imagers for future sounding rockets, CubeSat, SmallSat and large satellite missions.