The Soft X-ray Imager (SXI) on the SMILE Mission
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14310%2F25%3A00143383" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14310/25:00143383 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-025-01241-y" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-025-01241-y</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11214-025-01241-y" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11214-025-01241-y</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Soft X-ray Imager (SXI) on the SMILE Mission
Original language description
The Soft X-ray Imager (SXI) is a compact X-ray telescope with a wide 15.5^{circ } times 26.5^{circ } field-of-view (FOV) and is part of the scientific payload of the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) mission. SMILE is a joint science mission between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and is due for launch in 2026. SXI is capable of viewing large portions of Earth’s magnetosphere from the vantage point of the SMILE orbit. SXI is designed to detect the soft X-rays from the Solar Wind Charge eXchange (SWCX) process produced when heavy ions of solar wind origin interact with neutral particles in Earth’s exosphere. SWCX provides a mechanism for boundary detection within the magnetosphere, such as the position of Earth’s magnetopause, because the solar wind heavy ions essentially do not enter regions of closed magnetic field lines. The sensitivity of the SXI is such that it can potentially track movements of the magnetopause on timescales of a few minutes and the orbit of SMILE will enable such movements to be tracked for segments lasting many hours. The SXI has a large grasp (FOV times effective area) and a CCD-based detector system with an energy resolution comparable to contemporary X-ray astrophysics missions. SXI will, therefore, acquire high precision spectra capable of discriminating the composition of many of the solar wind heavy ions within the regions of interest. SXI is led by the University of Leicester (UL) in the United Kingdom (UK) with collaborating organisations on hardware, software and science support within the UK, Europe, China and the United States.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10308 - Astronomy (including astrophysics,space science)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS
ISSN
0038-6308
e-ISSN
1572-9672
Volume of the periodical
221
Issue of the periodical within the volume
8
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
65
Pages from-to
1-65
UT code for WoS article
001617412300001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105022177943