The Hinode X-ray Telescope (XRT):: Camera design, performance and operations
The Hinode X-ray Telescope (XRT):: Camera design, performance and operations
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DOI:
10.1007/s11207-007-9058-7
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发表时间:
2008-06-01
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影响因子:
2.8
通讯作者:
Weber, M.
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作者:
Kano, R.;Sakao, T.;Weber, M.
The X-ray Telescope (XRT) aboard the Hinode satellite is a grazing incidence X-ray imager equipped with a 2048x2048 CCD. The XRT has 1 arcsec pixels with a wide field of view of 34x34 arcmin. It is sensitive to plasmas with a wide temperature range from < 1 to 30 MK, allowing us to obtain TRACE-like low-temperature images as well as Yohkoh/SXT-like high-temperature images. The spacecraft Mission Data Processor (MDP) controls the XRT through sequence tables with versatile autonomous functions such as exposure control, region-of-interest tracking, flare detection, and flare location identification. Data are compressed either with DPCM or JPEG, depending on the purpose. This results in higher cadence and/or wider field of view for a given telemetry bandwidth. With a focus adjust mechanism, a higher resolution of Gaussian focus may be available on-axis. This paper follows the first instrument paper for the XRT (Golub et al., Solar Phys. 243, 63, 2007) and discusses the design and measured performance of the X-ray CCD camera for the XRT and its control system with the MDP.