| Abstract |
A NASA SMEX solar mission, selected in Oct. 1997, and managed for NASA/GSFC by the Space Science Laboratory (SSL) at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB). The overall objective is to explore the basic physics of particle acceleration and energy release in solar flares. The prime observations performed are simultaneous, high resolution imaging and spectroscopy of solar flares from 3 keV X-rays to 20 MeV gamma rays with high time resolution. RHESSI (the original name was HESSI) is a collaboration between the following institutions: GSFC, UCB (PI: Robert Lin), PSI (Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland), and ETH Zürich (RHESSI Experimental Data Center - REDC).
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