X-ray Flare Spectra from the DIOGENESS Spectrometer and its concept applied to ChemiX on the Interhelioprobe spacecraft

TL;DR

This paper discusses the DIOGENESS X-ray spectrometer's observations of solar flares, its design, and its concept's application to the upcoming ChemiX instrument on Interhelioprobe spacecraft, aiming to enhance solar flare spectroscopy.

Contribution

It introduces the DIOGENESS spectrometer's design, its solar flare observations, and the application of its concept to the ChemiX instrument for Interhelioprobe missions.

Findings

Captured high-resolution spectra from 8 solar flares.

Detected spectral lines not previously observed from spacecraft.

Described the spectrometer's design and its Dopplerometer configuration.

Abstract

The {\em DIOGENESS} X-ray crystal spectrometer on the {\em CORONAS-F} spacecraft operated for a single month (25~August to 17~September) in 2001 but in its short lifetime obtained one hundred and forty high-resolution spectra from some eight solar flares with {\em GOES} importance ranging from C9 to X5. The instrument included four scanning flat crystals with wavelength ranges covering the regions of \sixiii\ (6.65~\AA), \sxv\ (5.04~\AA), and \caxix\ (3.18~\AA) X-ray lines and associated dielectronic satellites. Two crystals covering the \caxix\ lines were oriented in a ``Dopplerometer'' manner, i.e. such that spatial and spectral displacements both of which commonly occur in flares can be separated. We describe the {\em DIOGENESS} spectrometer and the spectra obtained during flares which include lines not hitherto seen from spacecraft instruments. An instrument with very similar concept is presently being built for the two Russian {\em Interhelioprobe} spacecraft due for launch in 2020 and 2022 that will make a near-encounter (perihelion $\sim 0.3$ a.u.) to the Sun in its orbit. We outline the results that are likely to be obtained.