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Soft X-ray Imager of the Xtend system onboard XRISM
Hirofumi Noda, Koji Mori, Hiroshi Tomida +57
The Soft X-ray Imager (SXI) is the X-ray charge-coupled device (CCD) camera for the soft X-ray imaging telescope Xtend installed on the X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRIS…
Feasibility study of upper atmosphere density measurement on the ISS by observations of the CXB transmitted through the Earth rim
Takumi Kishimoto, Kumiko K. Nobukawa, Ayaki Takeda +11
Measurements of the upper atmosphere at ~100 km are important to investigate climate change, space weather forecasting, and the interaction between the Sun and the Earth. Atmospher…
SUIM project: measuring the upper atmosphere from the ISS by observations of the CXB transmitted through the Earth rim
Kumiko K. Nobukawa, Ayaki Takeda, Satoru Katsuda +16
The upper atmosphere at the altitude of 60-110 km, the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT), has the least observational data of all atmospheres due to the difficulties of in-si…
Status of Xtend telescope onboard X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM)
Koji Mori, Hiroshi Tomida, Hiroshi Nakajima +59
Xtend is one of the two telescopes onboard the X-ray imaging and spectroscopy mission (XRISM), which was launched on September 7th, 2023. Xtend comprises the Soft X-ray Imager (SXI…
Initial operations of the Soft X-ray Imager onboard XRISM
Hiromasa Suzuki, Tomokage Yoneyama, Shogo B. Kobayashi +52
XRISM (X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) is an astronomical satellite with the capability of high-resolution spectroscopy with the X-ray microcalorimeter, Resolve, and wide f…