FOXSI-4: The high resolution focusing X-ray rocket payload to observe a solar flare

Juan Camilo Buitrago-Casas; Juliana Vievering; Sophie Musset; Lindsay Glesener; Subramania Athiray Panchapakesan; Wayne Baumgartner; Stephen Bongiorno; Patrick Champey; Steven Christe; Sasha Courtade; Gregory Dalton; Jessie Duncan; Kelsey Gilchrist; Shin Nosuke Ishikawa; Christine Jhabvala; Hunter Kanniainen; Sam Krucker; Kyle Gregory; Juan Carlos Martinez Oliveros; Jeff McCracken; Ikuyuki Mitsuishi; Noriyuki Narukage; Athanasios Pantazides; Eliad Peretz; Savannah Perez-Piel; Aruna Ramanayaka; Brian Ramsey; Danny Ryan; Sabrina Savage; Tadayuki Takahashi; Shin Watanabe; Amy Winebarger; Yixian Zhang

doi:10.1117/12.2594701

FOXSI-4: The high resolution focusing X-ray rocket payload to observe a solar flare

Juan Camilo Buitrago-Casas, Juliana Vievering, Sophie Musset, Lindsay Glesener, Subramania Athiray Panchapakesan, Wayne Baumgartner, Stephen Bongiorno, Patrick Champey, Steven Christe, Sasha Courtade, Gregory Dalton, Jessie Duncan, Kelsey Gilchrist, Shin Nosuke Ishikawa, Christine Jhabvala, Hunter Kanniainen, Sam Krucker, Kyle Gregory, Juan Carlos Martinez Oliveros, Jeff McCrackenIkuyuki Mitsuishi, Noriyuki Narukage, Athanasios Pantazides, Eliad Peretz, Savannah Perez-Piel, Aruna Ramanayaka, Brian Ramsey, Danny Ryan, Sabrina Savage, Tadayuki Takahashi, Shin Watanabe, Amy Winebarger, Yixian Zhang

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The FOXSI-4 sounding rocket will fly a significantly upgraded instrument in NASAs first solar are campaign. It will deploy direct X-ray focusing optics which have revolutionized our understanding of astrophysical phenomena. For example, they have allowed NuSTAR to provide X-ray imaging and IXPE (scheduled for launch in 2021) to provide X-ray polarization observations with detectors with higher photon rate capability and greater sensitivity than their predecessors. The FOXSI sounding rocket is the first solar dedicated mission using this method and has demonstrated high sensitivity and improved imaging dynamic range with its three successful flights. Although the building blocks are already in place for a FOXSI satellite instrument, further advances are needed to equip the next generation of solar X-ray explorers. FOXSI-4 will develop and implement higher angular resolution optics/detector pairs to investigate fine spatial structures (both bright and faint) in a solar are. FOXSI-4 will use highly polished electroformed Wolter-I mirrors fabricated at the NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), together with finely pixelated Si CMOS sensors and fine-pitch CdTe strip detectors provided by a collaboration with institutes in Japan. FOXSI-4 will also implement a set of novel perforated attenuators that will enable both the low and high energy spectral components to be observed simultaneously in each pixel, even at the high rates expected from a medium (or large) size solar are. The campaign will take place during one of the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) perihelia, allowing coordination between this spacecraft and other instruments which observe the Sun at different wavelengths.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XXII
Editors	Oswald H. Siegmund
Publisher	SPIE
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510644809
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2594701
State	Published - 2021
Event	UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XXII 2021 - San Diego, United States Duration: Aug 1 2021 → Aug 5 2021

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	11821
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

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Conference	UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XXII 2021
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Diego
Period	8/1/21 → 8/5/21

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Funding Information:
The first author of this paper is funded by the NASA FINESST grant 80NSSC19K1438. The FOXSI sounding rocket experiment is funded by NASA grants 80NSSC21K0030, 80NSSC17K0430, NNX08AH42G, NNX11AB75G, and NNX16AL60G. The Univeristy of Minnesota team is supported by an NSF Faculty Development Grant (AGS-1429512), an NSF CAREER award (NSF-AGS-1752268), the SolFER DRIVE center (80NSSC20K0627), and NASA Headquarters under the NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship Program (80NSSC17K0430).

Funding Information:
Work at UC Berkeley in the Timepix3 detector development is supported by NASA Grant NNH17ZDA001N-HTIDS.

Funding Information:
This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant JP16H02170, JP15H03647, JP21540251.

Funding Information:
This work was also supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers JP17H04832, JP16H02170, JP16H03966, JP24244021, JP20244017, and World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI), MEXT, Japan.

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Buitrago-Casas, J. C., Vievering, J., Musset, S., Glesener, L., Panchapakesan, S. A., Baumgartner, W., Bongiorno, S., Champey, P., Christe, S., Courtade, S., Dalton, G., Duncan, J., Gilchrist, K., Ishikawa, S. N., Jhabvala, C., Kanniainen, H., Krucker, S., Gregory, K., Martinez Oliveros, J. C., ... Zhang, Y. (2021). FOXSI-4: The high resolution focusing X-ray rocket payload to observe a solar flare. In O. H. Siegmund (Ed.), UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XXII Article 118210L (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 11821). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2594701

FOXSI-4: The high resolution focusing X-ray rocket payload to observe a solar flare. / Buitrago-Casas, Juan Camilo; Vievering, Juliana; Musset, Sophie et al.
UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XXII. ed. / Oswald H. Siegmund. SPIE, 2021. 118210L (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 11821).

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Buitrago-Casas, JC, Vievering, J, Musset, S, Glesener, L, Panchapakesan, SA, Baumgartner, W, Bongiorno, S, Champey, P, Christe, S, Courtade, S, Dalton, G, Duncan, J, Gilchrist, K, Ishikawa, SN, Jhabvala, C, Kanniainen, H, Krucker, S, Gregory, K, Martinez Oliveros, JC, McCracken, J, Mitsuishi, I, Narukage, N, Pantazides, A, Peretz, E, Perez-Piel, S, Ramanayaka, A, Ramsey, B, Ryan, D, Savage, S, Takahashi, T, Watanabe, S, Winebarger, A & Zhang, Y 2021, FOXSI-4: The high resolution focusing X-ray rocket payload to observe a solar flare. in OH Siegmund (ed.), UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XXII., 118210L, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 11821, SPIE, UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XXII 2021, San Diego, United States, 8/1/21. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2594701

Buitrago-Casas JC, Vievering J, Musset S, Glesener L, Panchapakesan SA, Baumgartner W et al. FOXSI-4: The high resolution focusing X-ray rocket payload to observe a solar flare. In Siegmund OH, editor, UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XXII. SPIE. 2021. 118210L. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering). doi: 10.1117/12.2594701

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