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The spectrometer telescope for imaging x-rays on board the Solar Orbiter mission

2012; SPIE; Volume: 8443; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1117/12.927793

1996-756X

A. O. Benz, Säm Krucker, G. J. Hurford, Nicolas Arnold, P. Orleański, Hans-Peter Gröbelbauer, S. Klober, L. Iseli, H. J. Wiehl, A. Csillaghy, L. Etesi, N. Hochmuth, M. Battaglia, Martin Bednarzik, R. Resanovic, O. Grimm, G. Viertel, V. Commichau, A. Meuris, O. Limousin, S. Brun, Nicole Vilmer, Konrad Skup, Rafał Graczyk, M. Stolarski, M. Michalska, Witold Nowosielski, Andrzej Cichocki, M. Mosdorf, Karol Seweryn, A. Przepiórka, J. Sylwester, Mirosław Kowaliński, Tomasz Mrozek, P. Pоdgórski, G. Mann, H. Auraß, Emil Popow, Hakan Önel, Frank Dionies, Svend‐Marian Bauer, J. Rendtel, A. Warmuth, M. Woche, D. Plüschke, Wilbert Bittner, J. Paschke, D. Wolker, H. F. van Beek, F. Fárník, J. Kašparová, Astrid Veronig, I. W. Kienreich, P. T. Gallagher, D. Shaun Bloomfield, Michele Piana, Anna Maria Massone, B. R. Dennis, Reinhold Schwarz, R. P. Lin,

Particle Detector Development and Performance

The Spectrometer Telescope for Imaging X-rays (STIX) is one of 10 instruments on board Solar Orbiter, a confirmed Mclass mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) within the Cosmic Vision program scheduled to be launched in 2017. STIX applies a Fourier-imaging technique using a set of tungsten grids (at pitches from 0.038 to 1 mm) in front of 32 pixelized CdTe detectors to provide imaging spectroscopy of solar thermal and non-thermal hard X-ray emissions from 4 to 150 keV. The status of the instrument reviewed in this paper is based on the design that passed the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) in early 2012. Particular emphasis is given to the first light of the detector system called Caliste-SO.