Numerical model built for the simulation of the earth magnetopause by lobster-eye-type soft X-ray imager onboard SMILE satellite
| Autor: | Yihong Guo, Zuhua Yang, Songwu Peng, T. R. Sun, Yizhong Ye, Fei Wei |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Physics
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences business.industry Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Magnetosphere X-ray optics 01 natural sciences Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics law.invention Telescope Solar wind Optics law Physics::Space Physics 0103 physical sciences Magnetopause Satellite Ionosphere business Focus (optics) 010303 astronomy & astrophysics 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Optics Express. 26:15138 |
| ISSN: | 1094-4087 |
| Popis: | Solar wind magnetosphere ionosphere link explorer (SMILE) scientific satellite is dedicated to observe solar wind-magnetosphere coupling. The key payload, soft X-ray imager (SXI), is designed to map the location, shape, and motion of dayside magnetospheric boundaries by Angel-type lobster-eye optical system. Contrast to traditional Wolter-type X-ray telescope with very narrow field-of-view, the lobster-eye-type optics has a unique capability of providing wide field of view for panoramic imaging with moderate spatial resolution in soft X-ray band. Since the lobster-eye optics focus X-ray by reflecting of the inner walls of the micro-channel array shaped in spherical surface, traditional optical design tools can't well match to the requirements of simulation for SXI. In this paper, a 3D Angel-type lobster-eye model is designed for simulation of lobster-eye optics and its capability is demonstrated for the applying scenarios including the imaging of point light source, surface light source with uniform and non-uniform intensity distribution. The simulation results are well consistent with those of theoretical estimate. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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