The Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrometer (MaGIXS) is a sounding rocket experiment that observes the soft X-ray spectrum of the Sun from 6.0 - 24 Angstrom (0.5 - 2.0 keV), successfully launched on 30 July 2021. End-to-end alignment of the flight instrument and calibration experiments are carried out using the X-ray and Cryogenic Facility (XRCF) at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. In this paper, we present the calibration experiments of MaGIXS, which include wavelength calibration, measurement of line spread function, and determination of effective area. Finally, we use the measured instrument response function to predict the expected count rates for MaGIXS flight observation looking at a typical solar active region
@article{arxiv.2109.01720,
title = {Calibration of the MaGIXS experiment II: Flight Instrument Calibration},
author = {P. S. Athiray and Amy R. Winebarger and Patrick Champey and Ken Kobayashi and Sabrina Savage and Brent Beabout and Dyana Beabout and David Broadway and Alexander R. Bruccoleri and Peter Cheimets and Leon Golub and Eric Gullikson and Harlan Haight and Ralf K. Heilmann and Edward Hertz and William Hogue and Steven Johnson and Jeffrey Kegley and Jeffery Kolodziejczak and Chad Madsen and Mark L. Schattenburg and Richard Siler and Genevieve D. Vigil and Ernest Wright},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.01720},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
20 pages, 16 figures, Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal