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SUMMARY:eSpace Seminar - Solar Flare X-ray Observations with a Cubesat\, b
 y Säm Krucker
DTSTART:20240222T171500
DTEND:20240222T181500
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Säm Krucker\nUniversity of Applied Sciences Northwestern Swit
 zerland (FHNW)\nUniversity of California at Berkeley\nThe X-ray imaging sp
 ectrometer STIX onboard ESA’s flagship mission Solar Orbiter was designe
 d and build with a Swiss lead at the University of Applied Sciences Northw
 estern Switzerland (FHNW). STIX is now in its fourth year of operation and
  has recorded so far over 45’000 solar flares. The STIX detectors design
 ed by CEA\, France\, work extremely reliably with all 32 detectors still w
 orking nominally showing only minimal degradation due to radiation damage.
  We still have over 50 STIX flight spare detectors available\, and four of
  those will fly on a NASA cubesat mission called PADRE lead by UC Berkeley
  (PI J.C. Martinez-Oliveros). In this talk\, Säm Krucker will introduce t
 he science of solar flares and the STIX instrument and then show how STIX 
 X-ray detectors are used in the PADRE cubsat mission.\n\nSäm Krucker's ma
 in scientific interests are in problems of plasma astrophysics\, especiall
 y solar and heliospheric physics\, from an observational and experimental 
 point of view. He has a strong background in space hardware and I have bee
 n the PI of NASA’s Small Explorer mission RHESSI and NASA’s sounding r
 ocket program FOXSI. He is currently the lead of the hard X-ray imaging sp
 ectrometer STIX onboard ESA’s Solar Orbiter mission.  \n\n 
LOCATION:https://epfl.zoom.us/j/63246393366
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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