The MeDDEA hard X-ray spectrometer onboard NASAs PADRE CubeSat operates four flight-spare detectors from the Solar Orbiter/STIX instrument. This paper aims to evaluate the accuracy of the MeDDEA calibration and to demonstrate that MeDDEA data are ready for scientific exploitation. Using the first joint observations bet...
M. Stiefel, S. Krucker, O. Limousin et al.· 0 citations
To capture the brightest and most rapidly evolving phases of solar flares, the Major Flare Solar Orbiter Observing Plan (SOOP) employs a dedicated short-exposure mode for the High Resolution Imager ( of the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI), providing high-cadence, high spatial-resolution extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) imagi...
Laura A. Hayes, H. Collier, S. Krucker et al.· Astronomy & Astrophysics· 0 citations
X-ray emission in solar flares is produced by both multi-thermal plasma and accelerated electrons. Classical imaging approaches reconstruct X-ray intensity maps which contain contributions from multiple spectral components (e.g., hot, superhot, and non-thermal), and do not allow retrieving the morphology of the differe...
A. Guidetti, M. Stiefel, P. Massa et al.· 0 citations
Solar flares are explosive events that release X-rays from hot plasma and accelerated electrons. The STIX instrument on the Solar Orbiter provides imaging spectroscopy of solar X-ray emissions from 4 to 150 keV. To interpret the STIX data accurately, understanding the instrument's response is crucial. Given the complex...
Hualin Xiao, O. Limousin, E. Dickson et al.· 0 citations
The Spectrometer/Telescope for Imaging X-rays (STIX) on board Solar Orbiter provides imaging information on the X-ray sources in solar flares by modulating the emitted radiation with pairs of grids made of stacked tungsten layers. Optical measurements of the grids were taken on the ground and utilized to derive an init...
P. Massa, A. Volpara, M. Stiefel et al.· Solar Physics· 0 citations
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