Recent Advance in the Solar Wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) Mission
doi: 10.11728/cjss2022.04.yg08
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Abstract: The SMILE (Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer) mission is a joint space science mission between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), aiming to understand the interaction of the solar wind with the Earth’s magnetosphere in a global manner. The mission was adopted by CAS in November 2016 and by ESA in March 2019 with a target launch date in the year 2024–2025. We report the recent progress of SMILE mission by May, 2022.
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Figure 2. Instrument simulations of the X-ray photon counts. (a) X-ray image inside field of view of SXI. (b) SXI photon counts image corresponding to (a) without sky background. (c) SXI image after adding the constant sky background. (d) The X-ray maximum intensity of MHD and SXI photon counts images, and their best match curves by using TFA
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