Whitepaper #065 in the Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) 2024-2033. Main topics: basic research. Additional topics: solar physics; space-based missions/projects.
by Steven Christe, Meriem Alaoui, Joel Allred, Marina Battaglia, Wayne Baumgartner, J. C. Buitrago-Casas, Bin Chen, Thomas Chen, Brian Dennis, James Drake, Lindsay Glesener, Iain Hannah, Hugh Hudson, Andrew Inglis, Jack Ireland, James Klimchuk, Adam Kowalski, Säm Krucker, Anna Maria Massone, Sophie Musset, Michele Piana, Daniel Ryan, Albert Shih, Astrid Veronig, Nicole Vilmer, Alexander Warmuth, Stephen White, Amir Caspi, and Laura A. Hayes
Published onJul 31, 2023
The Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager (FOXSI)
FOXSI is a hard X-ray mission that detects emission from high in the tenuous corona, where previous instruments have been blinded by nearby bright features, It will fully characterize the accelerated electrons and hottest plasmas as they evolve in energy, space, and time to solve the mystery of how impulsive energy release leads to solar eruptions, the primary drivers of space weather at Earth.
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