title: Invited Article: First flight in space of a wide-field-of-view soft x-ray imager using lobster-eye optics: Instrument description and initial flight results.
abstract: We describe the development, launch into space, and initial results from a prototype wide field-of-view soft X-ray imager that employs lobster-eye optics and targets heliophysics, planetary, and astrophysics science. The sheath transport observer for the redistribution of mass is the first instrument using this type of optics launched into space and provides proof-of-concept for future flight instruments capable of imaging structures such as the terrestrial cusp, the entire dayside magnetosheath from outside the magnetosphere, comets, the Moon, and the solar wind interaction with planetary bodies like Venus and Mars [Kuntz et al., Astrophys. J. (in press)].
authors.affiliation: NASA/Goddard Spaceflight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA.
authors.forename: Michael R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Collier
authors.affiliation: NASA/Goddard Spaceflight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA.
authors.forename: F Scott
authors.initials: FS
authors.lastname: Porter
authors.affiliation: NASA/Goddard Spaceflight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA.
authors.forename: David G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Sibeck
authors.affiliation: The Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Jenny A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Carter
authors.affiliation: NASA/Goddard Spaceflight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA.
authors.forename: Meng P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Chiao
authors.affiliation: NASA/Goddard Spaceflight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA.
authors.forename: Dennis J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Chornay
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas, 1251 Wescoe Hall Dr., Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA.
authors.forename: Thomas E
authors.initials: TE
authors.lastname: Cravens
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida 33124, USA.
authors.forename: Massimiliano
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Galeazzi
authors.affiliation: NASA/Goddard Spaceflight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA.
authors.forename: John W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Keller
authors.affiliation: CNRS/INSU, LATMOS-IPSL, Université Versailles St-Quentin, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, 11 Boulevard d'Alembert, 78280 Guyancourt, France.
authors.forename: Dimitra
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Koutroumpa
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Siena College, Loudonville, New York 12211, USA.
authors.forename: Joseph
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kujawski
authors.affiliation: The Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA.
authors.forename: Kip
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kuntz
authors.affiliation: The Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Andy M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Read
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas, 1251 Wescoe Hall Dr., Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA.
authors.forename: Ina P
authors.initials: IP
authors.lastname: Robertson
authors.affiliation: The Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Steve
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sembay
authors.affiliation: NASA/Goddard Spaceflight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA.
authors.forename: Steven L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Snowden
authors.affiliation: NASA/Goddard Spaceflight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA.
authors.forename: Nicholas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Thomas
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida 33124, USA.
authors.forename: Youaraj
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Uprety
authors.affiliation: Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
authors.forename: Brian M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Walsh