The X-Ray Telescope aboard Solar-B: An Overview

Taro Sakao (ISAS/JAXA) and the XRT Team

The X-Ray Telescope (XRT) aboard the Solar-B satellite is a joint US-Japan project which aims to observe the solar corona in X-rays with high angular resolution (1 arcsec) and with wide temperature coverage (ranging from <1 MK up to >20 MK) ever achieved as a grazing-incidence imager for the Sun, thus plays a key role in accomplishing the science objective of Solar-B. The XRT will observe wide variety of coronal activities with such advanced capabilities and is expected to reveal, in an unprecedented detail, transport, storage, and dissipation processes of magnetic energies originating from the photosphere. We present brief description on the instrumentation followed by an overview on science with the XRT.

Correspondence

Taro Sakao (sakao@solar.isas.ac.jp), ISAS/JAXA

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