A radiation belt monitor for the High Energy Transient Experiment Satellite

Details A radiation belt monitor for the High Energy Transient Experiment Satellite A radiation belt monitor for the High Energy Transient Experiment Satellite

Mar 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993exa.....4...59l&link_type=abstract

Experimental Astronomy (ISSN 0922-6435), vol. 4, no. 1, p. 59-75

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Astronomical Satellites, Control Systems Design, Experiment Design, High Energy Interactions, Monitors, Off-On Control, Proton Damage, Radiation Belts, Radiation Detectors, Satellite Instruments, Spaceborne Experiments, Diodes, Electrons, Linear Accelerators, P-I-N Junctions, Photons, Protons

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A Radiation Belt Monitor (RBM) sensitive to protons and electrons with energy approximately greater than 0.5 MeV has been designed for the High Energy Transient Experiment (HETE) satellite in order to: first, control the on-off configuration of the experiments (i.e. those susceptible to proton damage); and second, to indicate the presence of proton and/or electron events that could masquerade as legitimate high energy photon events. One of the two RBM channels has an enhanced sensitivity to electrons. Each channel of the RBM, based on a PIN silicon diode, requires a typical power of 6 milliwatts. Tests have been performed with protons with energies from approximately 0.1 to 2.5 MeV (generated by a Cockcroft-Walton linear accelerator via the d(d,p)t reaction), and with electrons with energies up to 1 MeV (from a 1.0 microcurie Bi-207 source).

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