MaGIXS 2: Preparations for the Second Flight of the Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrometer

Overview

MaGIXS is a slitless soft X-ray (SXR) imaging spectrometer designed to observe solar active regions.
- The instrument produces spatially resolved SXR spectra, known as “overlappograms.” (Athiray et al. 2019 & Champey et al., 2022)

The first sounding rocket flight of the Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrometer occurred on July 30, 2021 from the White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.
- Spectrally pure images of X-ray bright points were obtained through the inversion of overlappograms, e.g. Fig. 3 (Savage et al., 2022).

MaGIXS 2 is a simplified version of the original design, less the spectrometer mirror pair.
- Eliminating the spectrometer mirror pair improves spatial resolution, increases effective area and the field of view (Table 1).
No field stop in this design, data will be an overlappogram with the same spatial and spectral plate scale.