6 papers
Observations of the Quiet Sun During the Deepest Solar Minimum of the Past Century with Chandrayaan-2 XSM -- Sub-A Class Microflares Outside Active Regions
Santosh V. Vadawale, N. P. S. Mithun, Biswajit Mondal +12
Solar flares, with energies ranging over several orders of magnitude, result from impulsive release of energy due to magnetic reconnection in the corona. Barring a handful, almost…
Observations of the Quiet Sun During the Deepest Solar Minimum of the Past Century with Chandrayaan-2 XSM -- Elemental Abundances in the Quiescent Corona
Santosh V. Vadawale, Biswajit Mondal, N. P. S. Mithun +12
Elements with low First Ionization Potential (FIP) are known to be three to four times more abundant in active region loops of the solar corona than in the photosphere. There have…
Solar X-ray Monitor On Board the Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter: In-flight Performance and Science Prospects
N. P. S. Mithun, Santosh V. Vadawale, Aveek Sarkar +14
The Solar X-ray Monitor (abbreviated as XSM) on board India's Chandrayaan-2 mission is designed to carry out broadband spectroscopy of the Sun from lunar orbit. It observes the Sun…
Ground Calibration of Solar X-ray Monitor On-board Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter
N. P. S. Mithun, Santosh V. Vadawale, M. Shanmugam +14
Chandrayaan-2, the second Indian mission to the Moon, carries a spectrometer called the Solar X-ray Monitor (XSM) to perform soft X-ray spectral measurements of the Sun while a com…
Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS) On-board Chandrayaan-2 Rover -- Pragyan
M. Shanmugam, S. V. Vadawale, Arpit R. Patel +19
Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) is one of the two scientific experiments on Chandrayaan-2 rover named as Pragyan. The primary scientific objective of APXS is to determine…
Solar X-ray Monitor (XSM) On-board Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter
M. Shanmugam, S. V. Vadawale, Arpit R. Patel +17
Solar X-ray Monitor (XSM) is one of the scientific instruments on-board Chandrayaan-2 orbiter. The XSM along with instrument CLASS (Chandras Large Area Soft x-ray Spectrometer) com…