(working title)
Full title (probable) “The Coronas-I ReSIK Solar flare spectrometer: pre-launch calibration and in-flight performance”. Alternatively: “Pre-launch calibration and in-flight performance of the Coronas-I ReSIK solar flare spectrometer”
Matthew Whyndham, Bob Bentley, Carl Foley
Janusz Sylwester, Mirek Kowalinski, Marek? Szymon Gburek? Barbara? Irek???
Jim Lang , Charlie Brown
Ken Phillips
What is ReSIK? Comparison with Yohkoh BCS.
Operation of the proportional counter and the position encoding system. Qualities of the pulse height distribution, and consequences for the windowing system.
The objectives of the paper.
Reference to idea about component and system calibrations. Description of the calibration activities, both at system level and for individual components.
Summary of the scope of the calibration activities and representative data set samples.
Statements about the performance of the instrument based on analysis of the calibration data.
Basic instrument performance metrics based on simple data sets, such as a sample PHA, a sample spectrum and so on.
Response of the instrument to flares, including light curves, spectra and PHA data. Comparison of ReSIK light curves with for example GOES data of the same events.
Optimisation of the observation windows, given the detailed PHA information.
Estimates of the sensitivity of the system for various orders of reflection, and hence the entire waveband.
Fluorescence effects arising from the crystals and other structures in the detector field of view.
Dynamic effects such as count rate induced temporary gain depression and/or image distortions.
Interaction of the instrument with radiation belt passages.
Existence of anomalies and peculiar features in the data. Candidates for the origin of these, with particular reference to astrophysically or geophysically interesting phenomenon of such as galactic sources or the polar aurorae.
Observational constraints and configuration issues arising from on-board data storage capacity, frequency of ground station passes and telemetry data rate.
Extent to which the existing data can be utilised for observational studies. Deficiencies in the present calibration.
What else needs to be done in order to complete our understanding of the above effects, including:
Further subsystem analysis work, integration of analysis results to form system calibration, further in-flight calibration processes.
Location of existing data archives, and development plans for same.
Analysis software status and plans.