Full-sun

Ultraviolet Rocket
SpecTrometer
(FURST)
Calibration
NPP Research Update
Genevieve Vigil
Advisor: Amy Winebarger
 Hi-C 2.1 Launch
Sounding Rocket
Missions
• Experimental
payloads
• ~5 minutes of data
• Testing platform for
novel instruments
Hi-C 2.1 Image of Active Region CLASPII Stitched Images
• Important science from two pointings
can be done from
such launches!

Vigil et al, in prep

 Hi-C
MAGIXs

CLASP 2 FURST
 Full-sun UV Rocket SpecTrometer (FURST)
• First high quality UV sun-as-
star spectra
• Hubble Analog data - cannot
reconstruct from current data
• Put the Sun’s UV activity in
stellar context
• Other applications
• magnetic heating processes in
chromosphere and corona
from spectral line profiles
• the physics of comets
• Jovian and Saturnian satellites
FURST proposal, Kankelborg et al. 2017
FURST instrument overview
• Collapses light from the extended Solar source with a cylindrical feed optic
• A curved grating focuses and diffracts light
• Full-disk spectra captured on camera on Rowland circle
• 7 channels to cover full spectra range with high resolution
Cylindrical
optic
1D line
at focus

Cylindrical optic focusing

ambient light into 1D line
FURST proposal, Kankelborg et al. 2017
Calibration Goals
• Achieve absolute calibration comparable to
Hubble
• Radiometric ~5%
• Wavelength +/- 3 km/s
• Ambitious goals, requires good reference
• Space Telescope Imaging Spectrometer uses
white dwarf models
• Synchrotron radiation at NIST SURFIII
• Instrument design decisions made this option less
practical
• Build portable calibration infrastructure at
MSFC which can approach these calibration
targets and monitor FURST before and after
launch
 Simulated Spectral Irradiance performance of Cal System

Calibration Plan
• Calibration system
• Excited Platinum source with
hundreds of spectral lines
• Calibrated detectors
• Account for all variables
• Vacuum
• Contamination FUR
ST
• Lamp output
Calib
• Optical system throughput ratio
n sy
stem
• Alignment
• Detector sensitivity
• Flexibility for adapting to future Mechanical Model of FURST integrated with
instrument testing needs calibration system
Ongoing and Future work
MAGIXS Slitjaw simulated image

• MAGIXS
• CLASP3
• High resolution Coronal Imager (Hi-C)
MAGIXS slitjaw optical design Vigil et al. submitted 2020
Flare campaign
• Cubesat mission based on COSIE-C

CoQi Preliminary optical design COSIE-C simulated image

Hi-C Flare
HI-C Flare proposal, Winebarger et al. 2019
Questions
Hi-C 2.1 Launch