The Modular X- and Gamma-Ray Sensor (MXGS)of the ASIM Payload on the International Space Station
Nikolai Østgaard, Jan E. Balling, Thomas Bjørnsen, Peter Brauer, Carl Budtz-Jørgensen, Waldemar Bujwan, Brant Carlson, Freddy Christiansen, Paul Connell, Chris Eyles, Dominik Fehlker, Georgi Genov, Pawel Grudziński, Pavlo Kochkin, Anja Kohfeldt, Irfan Kuvvetli, Per Lundahl Thomsen, Søren Møller Pedersen, Javier Navarro-Gonzalez, Torsten Neubert, Kåre Njøten, Piotr Orleanski, Bilal Hasan Qureshi, Linga Reddy Cenkeramaddi, Victor Reglero, Manuel Reina, Juan Manuel Rodrigo, Maja Rostad, Maria D. Sabau, Steen Savstrup Kristensen, Yngve Skogseide, Arne Solberg, Johan Stadsnes, Kjetil Ullaland, Shiming Yang
(Submitted on 25 Jun 2019)
The Modular X- and Gamma-ray Sensor (MXGS) is an imaging and spectral X- and Gamma-ray instrument mounted on the starboard side of the Columbus module on the International Space Station. Together with the Modular Multi-Spectral Imaging Assembly (MMIA) (Chanrion et al. this issue) MXGS constitutes the instruments of the Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM) (Neubert et al. this issue). The main objectives of MXGS are to image and measure the spectrum of X- and γ-rays from lightning discharges, known as Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes (TGFs), and for MMIA to image and perform high speed photometry of Transient Luminous Events (TLEs) and lightning discharges. With these two instruments specifically designed to explore the relation between electrical discharges, TLEs and TGFs, ASIM is the first mission of its kind.
Subjects: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
DOI: 10.1007/s11214-018-0573-7
Cite as: arXiv:1906.10452 [physics.ins-det] (or arXiv:1906.10452v1 [physics.ins-det] for this version)
Submission history
From: Nikolai Østgaard [via Kavitha Ãstgaard as proxy]
[v1] Tue, 25 Jun 2019 11:05:04 UTC (2,121 KB)
