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Solar X-ray Monitor (XSM) is one of the scientific instruments on-board Chandrayaan-2 orbiter. The XSM along with instrument CLASS (Chandras Large Area Soft x-ray Spectrometer) comprise the remote X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy experiment…

We analyze optical spectra of a two-ribbon, long duration C1.1 flare that occurred on 18 Aug 2011 within AR 11271 (SOL2011-08-18T15:15). The impulsive phase of the flare was observed with a comprehensive set of space-borne and ground-based…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Adam F. Kowalski , Gianna Cauzzi , Lyndsay Fletcher

The Miniature X-ray Solar Spectrometer (MinXSS) CubeSat is the first solar science oriented CubeSat mission flown for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, with the main objective of measuring the solar soft X-ray (SXR) flux and a science…

Decades of astrophysical observations have convincingly shown that soft X-ray (SXR; ~0.1--10 keV) emission provides unique diagnostics for the high temperature plasmas observed in solar flares and active regions. SXR observations critical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-04 Amir Caspi , Albert Y. Shih , Harry P. Warren , Marek Stęślicki , Janusz Sylwester

We present spectroscopic observations acquired with FLAMES and XSHOOTER at the Very Large Telescope for a sample of 15 Blue Straggler Stars (BSSs) in the globular cluster (GC) M30. The targets have been selected to sample the two BSS…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 L. Lovisi , A. Mucciarelli , B. Lanzoni , F. R. Ferraro , E. Dalessandro , L. Monaco

We describe the measurement of the beam profiles and window functions for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), which operated from 2007 to 2010 with kilo-pixel bolometer arrays centered at 148, 218, and 277 GHz. Maps of Saturn are used to…

The Blanco Cosmology Survey (BCS) is a 60 night imaging survey of $\sim$80 deg$^2$ of the southern sky located in two fields: ($\alpha$,$\delta$)= (5 hr, $-55^{\circ}$) and (23 hr, $-55^{\circ}$). The survey was carried out between 2005 and…

We report BVR photometry of the V1343 Aql= SS 433 microquasar at different phases of the 13--day orbital cycle for the 1986--1990 observing seasons. The data include five complete cycles of the 163$^{d}$ precession period of the system. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-04 A. N. Sazonov

Solar flare X-ray emission results from rapidly increasing temperatures and emission measures in flaring active region loops. To date, observations from the X-Ray Sensor (XRS) onboard the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-07 Daniel F. Ryan , Ryan O. Milligan , Peter T. Gallagher , Brian R. Dennis , A. Kim Tolbert , Richard A. Schwartz , C. Alex Young

The Planetary Fourier Spectrometer (PFS) onboard Mars Express (MEx) is the instrument with the highest spectral resolution observing Mars from orbit since January 2004. It permits studying the atmospheric structure, major and minor…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-19 F. Schmidt , I. Shatalina , M. Kowalski , N. Gac , B. Saggin , M. Giuranna

Solar flares (SFs) are sudden brightening observed over the Sun surface which is associated with a large energy release. Flares with burst of Xray emission are normally followed by a mass ejection of electrons and ions from the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-03 Kamsali Nagaraja , Praveen Kumar Basuvaraj , S. C. Chakravarty

Solar flares are occasionally responsible for severe Space Weather events, which can affect space-borne and ground-based infrastructures, endangering anthropic technological activities and even human health and safety. Thus, an essential…

The microwave spectrum contains valuable information about solar flares. Yet, the present spectral coverage is far from complete and broad data gaps exist above 20 GHz. Here we report the first flare (the X2.2 flare on 2022 April 20)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-11 F. Yan , Z. Wu , Z. Shang , B. Wang , L. Zhang , Y. Chen

Oscillations in solar coronal loops appear to be a common phenomenon. Transverse and longitudinal oscillations have been observed with both the Transition Region and Coronal Explorer and Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope imaging…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 John T. Mariska

Chandrayaan-2, the second Indian mission to the Moon, carries a spectrometer called the Solar X-ray Monitor (XSM) to perform soft X-ray spectral measurements of the Sun while a companion payload measures the fluorescence emission from the…

The Sky Brightness Monitor (SBM) is an important instrument to measure the brightness level for the sky condition, which is a critical parameter for judging a site for solar coronal observations. In this paper we present an automatic method…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 M. Y. Zhao , Y. Liu , A. Elmhamdi , A. S. Kordi , H. A. Al-trabulsy , X. F. Zhang , T. F. Song , S. Q. Liu , Y. D. Shen , Z. J. Tian , Y. H. Miao

Three generations of the Miniature X-ray Solar Spectrometer (MinXSS) have flown on small satellites with the goal "to explore the energy distribution of soft X-ray (SXR) emissions from the quiescent Sun, active regions, and during solar…

Standard model of solar flares comprises a bulk expansion and rise of abruptly heated plasma (the chromospheric evaporation). Emission from plasma ascending along loops rooted on the visible solar disk should be often dominated, at least…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-15 R. Falewicz , P. Rudawy , M. Siarkowski

Imaging spectropolarimetry is a new observing mode on the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) that was commissioned in Cycle 30 and is available to HST observers starting in Cycle 31 (i.e., from 2023).…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-28 Nimish P. Hathi , Dean C. Hines , Yotam Cohen , Norman A. Grogin , Marco Chiaberge

Solid-state Slit Camera (SSC) is an X-ray camera onboard the MAXI mission of the International Space Station. Two sets of SSC sensors view X-ray sky using charge-coupled devices (CCDs) in 0.5--12\,keV band. The total area for the X-ray…