Reuven Ramaty 1937 – 2001
RHESSI people UC Berkeley (Bob Lin) NASA GSFC (Brian Dennis) Paul Scherrer Institute (Alex Zehnder) Co-Is Benz, Brown, Emslie, Enome, Hudson, Hurford, Kosugi, Ramaty, Smith, Vilmer (Aschwanden? Holman? Krucker?)
RHESSI description A NASA Small Explorer (the 6th SMEX) Spin-stabilized modulation collimator array in low Earth orbit Germanium detectors for high resolution X- ray and -ray imaging spectroscopy Launched successfully February 6, 2002 All data and software public-domain. The GUI really works.
Three RHESSI items Interplanetary connection Gamma-ray flare (July 23, 2002) Late arcade development (April 21, 2002)
Coronal connectivity via SEPs
Slide 16 Courtesy of Brian Dennis
July 23, 2002, -ray event
Krucker et al. 2003
Hurford et al Centroids of bremsstrahlung and MeV emissions
April 21, 2002 “slow LDE”
Gallagher et al., 2002