NDLI: The Skylab X-Ray Spectroheliograph

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Conroy, J. Ballas, J. Wester, E. Boczenowski, J. Holloway, J.
Copyright Year	1963
Abstract	On May 14, 1973, Skylab was placed in earth orbit by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The major scientific payload of this experimental space station is the Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM) which houses six major telescope instruments. As a group, these instruments are capable of observing the sun's radiation from X-rays to visible light. The Skylab program consists of three manned observing periods; the first period having a twenty-eight day duration, the second and third each having fifty-six days duration. These three observing periods are separated by unmanned periods of approximately forty days duration. From the data collected in these three observing periods, solar physicists will try to answer some of the basic questions concerning solar flares, solar activity, the heating of the solar corona and the solar cycle. The purpose of this paper is to give a brief description of the hardware and performance of one of these instruments, the X-ray spectroheliograph. The conceptual design of this instrument and scientific details of the subsystems have been discussed in Reference 2 as part of a general discussion on "Imaging in X-Ray Astronomy". A more extensive presentation of the instrument as a whole in the context of the goals in the solar physics area is in preparation (Reference 3).
Sponsorship	IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society Computer Applications in Nuclear and Plasma Sciences (CANPS) Lawrence Berkeley Lab. Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab. APS College of William and Mary Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility NASA Defence Nuclear Agency Sandia National Laboratories Jet Propulsion Laboratory Brookhaven Nat. Lab. Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab IEEE/NPPS Radiat. Effects Committee Defence Nuclear Agency/DoD Sandia National Laboratories/DOE Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA Phillips Lab./DoD
Starting Page	237
Ending Page	246
Page Count	10
File Size	3236064
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00189499
Volume Number	21
Issue Number	1
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1974-02-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Instruments Telescopes X-ray imaging Earth Payloads Space stations Sun Solar heating Corona Hardware
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Nuclear and High Energy Physics Electrical and Electronic Engineering Nuclear Energy and Engineering

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