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The '''Spectrometer Telescope for Imaging X-rays''' ('''STIX''') is one of the 10 instruments that are part of the scientific payload for the [[ESA]] [[Solar Orbiter]] mission launched in 2020.
 
The STIX instrument is an X-ray imaging spectrometer, whose purpose is to study the extremely hot solar plasma and the high-energy electrons accelerated during a solar flare. It can detect X-rays from 4 to 150 keV and exploits an indirect imaging technique based on the [[moiré effect]], to produce images with few arcsec angular resolution in any given energy range.

The instrument has been developed by an international collaboration led by the [[University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland]].

== External links ==
* [https://pub023.cs.technik.fhnw.ch STIX Data Center]
* [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168900213006505# The spectrometer/telescope for imaging X-rays on board the ESA Solar Orbiter spacecraft]
* [http://sci.esa.int/solar-orbiter/ ESA Solar Orbiter]

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