Shanmugam, M. ; Vadawale, S. V. ; Patel, Arpit R. ; Adalaja, Hitesh Kumar ; Mithun, N. P. S. ; Ladiya, Tinkal ; Goyal, Shiv Kumar ; Tiwari, Neeraj K. ; Singh, Nishant ; Kumar, Sushil ; Painkra, Deepak Kumar ; Acharya, Y. B. ; Bhardwaj, Anil ; Hait, A. K. ; Patinge, A. ; Kapoor, Abinandhan ; Suresh Kumar, H. N. ; Satya, Neeraj ; Saxena, Gaurav ; Arvind, Kalpana (2020) Solar X-ray Monitor Onboard Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter Current Science, 118 (1). p. 45. ISSN 0011-3891
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.18520/cs/v118/i1/45-52
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Abstract
Solar X-ray Monitor (XSM) is one of the scientific instruments onboard Chandrayaan-2 orbiter. The XSM along with instrument CLASS (Chandra’s Large Area soft X-ray Spectrometer) comprise the remote X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy experiment of Chan- drayaan-2 mission with an objective to determine the elemental composition of the lunar surface on a global scale. XSM instrument will measure the solar X-rays in the energy range of 1–15 keV using state-of-the-art silicon drift detector. The flight model of the XSM payload has been designed, realized and characterized for various operating parameters. XSM provides energy resolution of ~180 eV at 5.9 keV with high time cadence of one second. The X-ray spectra of the Sun observed with XSM will also contribute to the study of solar corona. The detailed description and the per- formance characteristics of the XSM instrument are presented in this article.
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| Keywords: | Lunar X-rays; silicon drift detector; solar X-rays; X-ray spectrometer. |
| ID Code: | 133634 |
| Deposited On: | 29 Dec 2022 10:08 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Dec 2022 10:08 |
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