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Energetic Particle Contamination in STIX During Solar Orbiter's Passage Through Earth's Radiation Belts and an Interplanetary Shock

Krucker, Säm; Dresing, Nina; Xiao, Hualin +8 more

The Spectrometer/Telescope for Imaging X-rays (STIX) is a hard X-ray imaging spectrometer on board the ESA and NASA heliospheric mission Solar Orbiter. STIX has been operational for three years and has observed X-ray emission from ~35,000 solar flares. Throughout its lifetime, Solar Orbiter has been frequently struck by a high flux of energetic pa…