HR: 10:30h
AN: SP12A-01 [Abstracts]
TI: Fast Spectroscopy of the Solar Corona in the 6-25 Å region with the ATSSI Microcalorimeter Sounding Rocket Payload
AU: * Martinez-Galarce, D
EM: denmart@lmsal.com
AF: Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory, 3251 Hanover St
O/ADBS B/252, Palo Alto, CA 94304 United States
AU: Boerner, P
EM: boerner@lmsal.com
AF: Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory, 3251 Hanover St
O/ADBS B/252, Palo Alto, CA 94304 United States
AU: Deiker, S
EM: deiker@lmsal.com
AF: Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory, 3251 Hanover St
O/ADBS B/252, Palo Alto, CA 94304 United States
AU: Cabrera, B
EM: cabrera@stanford.edu
AF: Stanford University Physics Department, MC 4060, Stanford, CA 94305 United States
AU: Chakraborty, S
EM: deepc@stanford.edu
AF: Stanford University Physics Department, MC 4060, Stanford, CA 94305 United States
AU: Barbee, T
EM: barbee2@llnl.gov
AF: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, CA 94550 United States
AU: Irwin, K
EM: kent.irwin@nist.gov
AF: National Institute of Standards and Technology, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305 United States
AU: Baker, P
EM: pcbaker@frontiernet.net
AF: Baker Consulting, Walnut Creek, CA 94595 United States
AB:
The Advanced Technology Solar Spectroscopic Imager (ATSSI) sounding rocket payload will employ a quantum microcalorimeter
detector placed at the focus of a Wolter I telescope to study energy release in the active solar corona. Over its nominal 300 second observing period, the ATSSI will record ~120 spectra with its 2x2 array of detectors. These spectra span the
range of 6-25 Å with spectral resolution of ~650, spatial resolution of ~5 arcsec, and time cadence of ~10 seconds. The ATSSI will record high signal-to-noise measurements of the intensity of ~12 emission lines formed from
1-10 MK, including the temperature and density-sensitive lines of Fe XVII in the 15-17 Å region. The ATSSI's unique
capabilities will provide powerful constraints on the parameters of the coronal heating mechanism.
DE: 7509 Corona
DE: 7519 Flares
DE: 7549 Ultraviolet emissions
DE: 7554 X rays, gamma rays, and neutrinos
DE: 7594 Instruments and techniques
SC: Solar Physics Division - AAS [SP]
MN: 2005 Joint Assembly