MiSolFA
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Project type
angewandte Forschung
Project start
01.10.2015
Project end
30.09.2018
Project status
abgeschlossen
Project contact
Casadei, Diego
Project manager
Casadei, Diego
Contributors
Description
Abstract
The solar physics team at FHNW is the world leading group in the development and exploitation of indirect X-ray imaging systems for space applications. Already developed imagers equip the NASA RHESSI space mission, operating since 2002, and the STIX instrument of the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter mission, to be launched in 2018. This new project pushes the technology beyond the current limits, in order to produce a very compact X-ray detector that can be flown on board of a small micro-satellite, to be launched with the support by the Italian Space Agency in 2020. New X-ray absorbing grids shall be developed as part of this project, with periods as small as one fifth of the diameter of a hair (10 microns), in order to obtain similar angular resolutions as STIX for the size restriction given by a micro-satellite (< 10x10x30 cm^3). For a regularly sized missions (~1x1x2 m^3), our new development will potentially improve the resolution by a factor of 10, making it possible to resolve structures on the Sun as fine as 150 km (0.2 arcsec). In addition to opening a new frontier in X-ray astrophysics, the development of these grids also boosts Swiss industry, with applications in the field of phase-contrast radiography, which have a potentially enormous market.
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School
Hochschule für Informatik FHNW
Institute
Institut für Data Science
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SAP reference
t396-0120-2