Solar & Stellar X-Ray Group

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Introduction

The Solar & Stellar X-Ray Group (SSXG) was founded in 1975 by Dr. Giuseppe (Pippo) Vaiana to continue the research effort he began at American Science and Engineering (AS&E) that led to the first high-resolution X-ray images of the Sun from sounding rockets and later from the S-054 telescope on Skylab. In 1978, with the launch of the Einstein Observatory, the theme of a Solar-Stellar Connection was developed. Beginning in 1988, a series of sounding rocket flights led to the development of the multilayer method for high resolution x-ray imaging using the NIXT payload. This program led to the TRACE satellite in 1998, and more recently to the XRT on Hinode and to the AIA on SDO (see below for more details and links).

The SSXG is part of the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Instrumentation Projects

Current and past instrumentation projects include:

XRT (X-Ray Telescope) and the Latest Image
Hinode Mission Web Page (in Japan)
AIA (Atmospheric Imaging Assembly) on the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)
TRACE (Transition Region and Coronal Explorer): See the LMSAL page.
Hi-C (High Resolution Coronal Imager sounding rocket)
TXI (Tunable X-Ray Imager Rocket program)

Group Members

Here are some of the current members of the SSXG, circa August 2006.
Front row, left to right: Leon Golub, Peter Smith, Steve Saar, Yingna Su, and Monica Bobra.
Back row, left to right: Jamie McCaughey, Ed DeLuca, Trish Jibben, Jonathan Cirtain, Jay Bookbinder, Kathy Reeves,
Mark Weber, Loraine Lundquist, Jimmy Qian, Julia Sandell, and Dan Munger. (2006-Aug-10)

You may see other pictures of our group here .

SSXG Members

(2007-September-10)

Jay Bookbinder
Jonathan Cirtain
Ed DeLuca
Samaiyah Farid
Leon Golub
Justin Kasper
Doug Kline
Loraine Lundquist
Kathy Reeves
Steve Saar
Peter Smith
Mark Weber

Visitors and Interns