Publication Date:
2019-07-13
Description:
We describe the development, launch into space, and initial results from a prototype wide eld-of-view (FOV) soft X-ray imager that employs Lobster-eye optics and targets heliophysics, planetary, and astrophysics science. The Sheath Transport Observer for the Redistribution of Mass (STORM) is the rst instrument using this type of optics launched into space and provides proof-of-concept for future ight instruments capable of imaging structures such as the terrestrial cusp, the entire dayside magnetosheath from outside the magnetosphere, comets, the moon, and the solar wind interaction with planetary bodies like Venus and Mars.
Keywords:
Astrophysics; Instrumentation and Photography
Type:
GSFC-E-DAA-TN24948
,
Review of Scientific Instruments (ISSN 0034-6748) (e-ISSN 1089-7623); 86; 7; 071301
Format:
application/pdf
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