Publications by authors named "S Busk"
Rev Sci Instrum
December 2024
Article Synopsis
- The Lunar Environment heliospheric X-ray Imager (LEXI) is designed to capture x-ray images from solar wind interactions in Earth's magnetosheath, helping researchers understand energy transfer into Earth's magnetosphere.
- As part of a lunar lander mission landing in Mare Crisium, LEXI features a unique array of 48 neodymium magnets to protect against interference from charged particles while minimizing stray magnetic fields.
- A Runge-Kutta-based simulation model shows that LEXI's deflector array and other particle suppression methods effectively limit proton and electron contamination, ensuring the success of its imaging capabilities and offering insights for similar instruments.
Article Synopsis
- The Lunar Environment heliospheric X-ray Imager (LEXI) is a soft X-ray telescope designed for studying how solar wind interacts with the Earth’s magnetosphere as part of the Blue Ghost 1 mission, which includes 10 payloads on the lunar surface.
- LEXI focuses on capturing soft X-rays emitted during solar wind interactions, to observe the position and shape of the magnetopause over time.
- Using lobster-eye optics, LEXI has a wide 9.1-degree field of view, allowing it to image magnetic reconnection phenomena in detail.
