1. X-ray Flare Spectra from the DIOGENESS Spectrometer and its concept applied to ChemiX on the Interhelioprobe spacecraft
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Sylwester, J., Kordywski, Z., Plocieniak, S., Siarkowski, M., Kowalinski, M., Nowak, S., Trzebinski, W., Steslinski, M., Sylwester, B., Stanczyk, E., Zawerbny, R., Szaforz, Z., Phillips, K. J. H., Farnik, F, and Stepanov, A.
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Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics - Abstract
The {\em DIOGENESS} X-ray crystal spectrometer on the {\em CORONAS-F} spacecraft operated for a single month (25~August to 17~September) in 2001 but in its short lifetime obtained one hundred and forty high-resolution spectra from some eight solar flares with {\em GOES} importance ranging from C9 to X5. The instrument included four scanning flat crystals with wavelength ranges covering the regions of \sixiii\ (6.65~\AA), \sxv\ (5.04~\AA), and \caxix\ (3.18~\AA) X-ray lines and associated dielectronic satellites. Two crystals covering the \caxix\ lines were oriented in a ``Dopplerometer'' manner, i.e. such that spatial and spectral displacements both of which commonly occur in flares can be separated. We describe the {\em DIOGENESS} spectrometer and the spectra obtained during flares which include lines not hitherto seen from spacecraft instruments. An instrument with very similar concept is presently being built for the two Russian {\em Interhelioprobe} spacecraft due for launch in 2020 and 2022 that will make a near-encounter (perihelion $\sim 0.3$ a.u.) to the Sun in its orbit. We outline the results that are likely to be obtained., Comment: Accepted for publication, Solar Physics
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- 2014
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