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most citedMinXSS-2 CubeSat mission overview: Improvements from the successful MinXSS-1 mission

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astro-ph.SR2026

Cross-Calibration of Chandrayaan-2 XSM with INSPIRESat-1 DAXSS and GOES-16 XRS

N. P. S. Mithun, Santosh V. Vadawale, Asif M. Mandayapuram +9

X-ray spectroscopic observations of the solar corona and flares provide crucial diagnostics of plasma properties and are essential for understanding the physical processes responsi…

astro-ph.SR2026

Solar Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrograph and High-energy Imager (SEUSHI): Design, Development, and Pre-Flight Calibration

Anant Telikicherla, Thomas N. Woods, Dave Crotser +7

Understanding the initiation of solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) is essential for improving forecasts of extreme space weather. Soft X-ray (SXR) and Extreme Ultraviol…

astro-ph.SR2025

Improving Solar Flare Nowcasting with the Hot Onset Precursor Event (HOPE) Technique

Anant Telikicherla, Thomas N. Woods, Bennet D. Schwab

This study investigates the statistical behavior of plasma properties during Hot Onset Precursor Events (HOPEs) of solar flares and evaluates their potential for improving flare no…

astro-ph.SR2024

The Solar eruptioN Integral Field Spectrograph

Vicki L. Herde, Phillip C. Chamberlin, Don Schmit +17

The Solar eruptioN Integral Field Spectrograph (SNIFS) is a solar-gazing spectrograph scheduled to fly in the summer of 2025 on a NASA sounding rocket. Its goal is to view the sola…

astro-ph.SR2024

Investigating the Soft X-ray Spectra of Solar Flare Onsets

Anant Telikicherla, Thomas N. Woods, Bennet D. Schwab

In this study we present the analysis of six solar flare events that occurred in 2022, using new data from the third-generation Miniature X-Ray Solar Spectrometer (MinXSS), also kn…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 17 cited

First Results for Solar Soft X-ray Irradiance Measurements from the Third Generation Miniature X-Ray Solar Spectrometer

Thomas N. Woods, Bennet Schwab, Robert Sewell +11

Three generations of the Miniature X-ray Solar Spectrometer (MinXSS) have flown on small satellites with the goal "to explore the energy distribution of soft X-ray (SXR) emissions…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 5 cited

Modeling the Daily Variations of the Coronal X-ray Spectral Irradiance with Two Temperatures and Two Emission Measures

Bennet D. Schwab, Thomas N. Woods, James P. Mason

The Miniature X-ray Solar Spectrometer (MinXSS-1) CubeSat observed solar X-rays between 0.5 and 10 keV. A two-temperature, two-emission measure model is fit to each daily averaged…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 20 cited

Soft X-Ray Observations of Quiescent Solar Active Regions using Novel Dual-zone Aperture X-ray Solar Spectrometer (DAXSS)

Bennet D. Schwab, Robert H. A. Sewell, Thomas N. Woods +3

The Dual-zone Aperture X-ray Solar Spectrometer (DAXSS) was flown on 2018 June18 on the NASA 36.336 sounding rocket flight and obtained the highest resolution to date for solar sof…