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MinXSS/DAXSS Data Tutorial

SPHERE Workshop

Crisel Suarez, Bennet Schwab,

Anant Kumar, & the MinXSS / DAXSS Team

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Outline

Miniature X-ray Solar Spectrometer (MinXSS)

Dual-zone Aperture X-ray Solar Spectrometer (DAXSS)

  • Review MinXSS and DAXSS Data Products
  • How to access data in python and IDL (Crisel)
  • DAXSS Data Plotting and Fitting using PySPEX (Anant)
  • Review Spectra Fits (Bennet)

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Miniature X-Ray Solar Spectrometer - MinXSS

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  • Mission Length: 05/16/2016 – 05/06/2017
  • X-ray Spectrometer (X123)
    • Amptek X123 Silicon Drift Diode (SDD)
    • 0.8 – 12 keV bandpass
    • 0.03 keV bins -> 0.15 keV FWHM resolution
    • Δt = 10 seconds cadence
  • X-Ray Photometer (XP)
  • Sun Positioning System

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Dual Aperture X-ray Solar Spectrometer - DAXSS

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  • Mission Length: 02/14/2022 –
  • X-ray Spectrometer (X123)
    • Amptek X123 Silicon Drift Diode (SDD)
    • 0.5–20 keV bandpass
    • 0.03 keV bins -> 0.079 keV FWHM resolution
    • Δt = 9 seconds cadence
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  • Better spectral resolution and higher energy range than previous models

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Review MinXSS and DAXSS Data Products

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  • Level 0B Packets
    • – Data sorted by packets (SCI, HK, DUMP, LOG)
  • Level 0C Packets
    • – Packets sorted in time
  • Level 0D Packets
    • – Science Packets with interpolation in time for the other packets’ information
  • Level 1 SXR Irradiance
    • – X123 spectral irradiance
  • Level 2/3 SXR Irradiance
    • – Time averages for 1-min, 1- hour, and 1-day
  • Level 4 Model SXR Spectra
    • – Model results for L1 / L2

MinXSS and DAXSS

Only MinXSS

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Outline

Miniature X-ray Solar Spectrometer (MinXSS)

Dual-zone Aperture X-ray Solar Spectrometer (DAXSS)

  • Review MinXSS and DAXSS Data Products
  • How to access data in python and IDL (Crisel)
  • DAXSS Data Plotting and Fitting using PySPEX (Anant)
  • Review Spectra Fits (Bennet)

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