From Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2018
The Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrometer (MaGIXS) is a NASA sounding rocket instrument designed to obtain spatially resolved soft X-ray spectra of the solar atmosphere in the 6–24 Å (0.5–2.0 keV) range. The instrument consists of a single shell Wolter Type-I telescope, a slit, and a spectrometer comprising a matched pair of grazing incidence parabolic mirrors and a planar varied-line space diffraction grating. The instrument is designed to achieve a 50 mÅ spectral resolution and 5 arcsecond spatial resolution along a ±4-arcminute long slit, and launch is planned for 2019. We report on the status and our approaches for fabrication and alignment for this novel optical system. The telescope and spectrometer mirrors are replicated nickel shells, and are currently being fabricated at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. The diffraction grating is currently under development by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); because of the strong line spacing variation across the grating, it will be fabricated through e-beam lithography.
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Ken Kobayashi, Amy R. Winebarger, Sabrina Savage, Patrick Champey, Peter N. Cheimets, Edward Hertz, Alexander R. Bruccoleri, Jorg Scholvin , Leon Golub, Brian Ramsey, Jaganathan Ranganathan, Vanessa Marquez, Ryan Allured, Theodore Parker, Ralf K. Heilmann, and Mark L. Schattenburg, "The Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrometer (MaGIXS)," Proc. SPIE 10699, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 1069927 (Presented at SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation: June 15, 2018; Published: 6 July 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2313997.