BackForwardInstrument:  HXI 

Instrument details
Acronym HXI
Full name Hard X-ray Imager
Purpose To image solar flares in hard X-rays from ~30-200 keV.
Short description Has an angular resolution of 3.2 arc seconds, field of view of 40 arc minutes, and energy resolution (24% @ 32 keV). Adopts a similar principle used by the Hard X-ray Telescope (HXT) onboard the Japanese YOHKOH satellite using indirect imaging technique via spatial modulation.
Background New development
Scanning Technique
Resolution
Coverage / Cycle
Mass Power Data Rate

 

Providing Agency CAS
Instrument Maturity Flown on operational programme
Utilization Period: 2023 to 2026
Last update: 2022-10-10
Detailed characteristics
Satellites this instrument is flying on

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Instrument classification
  • Solar and space environment monitors
  • Solar activity monitor
WIGOS Subcomponents
  • Subcomponent 2
  • Solar magnetograph, solar EUV/X-ray imagery and EUV/X-ray irradiance, both on the Earth-Sun line and off the Earth-Sun line
  • Solar X-ray imager [from L1, GEO, LEO]
Mission objectives
Primary mission objectives
  • Solar X-ray image
Evaluation of Measurements

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Note: * Primary mission objective.