Colloquium

3:00pm - 4:00pm, Title: REDSoX: Mission design and development for a sounding rocket-borne soft X-ray polarimeterPresenter: Sarah Trowbridge Heine, Research Scientist - MIT KAVLI InstituteHost: Fabian Kislat – Associate Professor – Physics & Astronomy Department - Space Science CenterAbstract: REDSoX (the Rocket Experiment Demonstration of a Soft X-ray Polarimeter) is a NASA-funded sounding rocket payload designed to measure polarization of X-rays in the 200-400 eV band.  This telescope u...