The Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrometer (MaGIXS) is a sounding rocket mission that completed a successful flight from the White Sands Missile Range on July 30, 2021. MaGIXS captured spatially resolved soft X-ray spectra from portions of two solar active regions during its roughly 5-minute flight. The instrument was originally designed as a grazing incidence slit spectrograph but flew in a slit-less configuration that produced overlapping spectroheliograms. For the second flight, MaGIXS-2, the instrument has been reconfigured to a more simplified optical layout that reuses the Wolter-I telescope and blazed varied-line space reflective grating. The field stop at the telescope focal plane and the finite conjugate spectrometer mirror pair have been removed – the telescope now directly feeds the grating. Additionally, an identical but new 2k x 1k CCD camera has been built for this flight. The MaGIXS-2 data product will again be overlapping spectroheliograms of at least one solar active region, but with improved resolution, a larger field of view and increased effective area. Here we present the updated instrument layout, the expected performance, the integration and calibration approach, and proposed future improvements, including the implementation of additional complimentary spectral diagnostics.


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    Title :

    An Overview of MaGIXS-2: The second flight of the Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrometer


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    SPIE Optics & Photonics ; 2023 ; San Diego, CA, US


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    Miscellaneous


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    English




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