The high energy solar spectroscopic imager - Hessi

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2804, Issue , 1996, Pages 228-240

  Dennis, Brian R ^a   Lin, Robert P ^b   Canfield, Richard C ^c   Crannell, Carol J ^a   Emslie, A Gordon ^d   Holman, Gordon D ^a   Hudson, Hugh S ^c   Hurford, Gordon J ^e   Ling, James C ^f   Madden, Norman W ^g   Ramaty, Reuven ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gamma rays; Imaging; Solar flares; Spectroscopy; X rays

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; HEAVY IONS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; NASA; SILICON DETECTORS; SPACE FLIGHT; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; SPECTROSCOPY; X RAYS;

FOURIER-TRANSFORM IMAGING; HIGH-RESOLUTION SPECTROSCOPY; PARTICLE ACCELERATION; RELATIVISTIC ELECTRON; ROTATING MODULATIONS; SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVES; SMALL EXPLORER MISSIONS; SOLAR FLARE;

GAMMA RAYS;

EID: 0141695883     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.259716     Document Type: Conference Paper

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