Kavli Affiliate: Mark L. Schattenburg
| First 5 Authors: Sabrina L. Savage, Amy R. Winebarger, Ken Kobayashi, P. S. Athiray, Dyana Beabout
| Summary:
The Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrometer (MaGIXS) sounding rocket
experiment launched on July 30, 2021 from the White Sands Missile Range in New
Mexico. MaGIXS is a unique solar observing telescope developed to capture X-ray
spectral images, in the 6 – 24 Angstrom wavelength range, of coronal active
regions. Its novel design takes advantage of recent technological advances
related to fabricating and optimizing X-ray optical systems as well as
breakthroughs in inversion methodologies necessary to create spectrally pure
maps from overlapping spectral images. MaGIXS is the first instrument of its
kind to provide spatially resolved soft X-ray spectra across a wide field of
view. The plasma diagnostics available in this spectral regime make this
instrument a powerful tool for probing solar coronal heating. This paper
presents details from the first MaGIXS flight, the captured observations, the
data processing and inversion techniques, and the first science results.
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