In the summer of the year 2000, a NASA Small Explorer satellite, the High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (HESSI), will be launched. It will consist of nine large, coaxial germanium detectors viewing the Sun through a set of Rotation Modulation Collimators and will accomplish high-resolution imaging and spectroscopy of solar flares in the x-ray and gamma-ray bands. Here we describe some of the astrophysical observations HESSI will also perform in addition to its solar mission.
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9812184,
title = {Astrophysics with HESSI},
author = {D. M. Smith and R. P. Lin and J. McTiernan and A. S. Slassi-Sennou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9812184},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
To be published in Astrophysical Letters and Communications, in the Proceedings of the 3rd INTEGRAL Workshop, Taormina, Sicily, September 1998