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Dec 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010agufm.p51c1455r&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2010, abstract #P51C-1455
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[6250] Planetary Sciences: Solar System Objects / Moon
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The Apollo Lunar Surface Experiment Package (ALSEP) carried the Suprathermal Ion Detector Experiment (SIDE) which detected positive ions incident on the lunar surface. The detector could be sequenced through a set of fixed energies up to ~50 eV and a velocity filter could be sequenced through 20 steps to provide a measure of the charge-to-mass ratio. A modern diagnostic used on fusion energy experiments is the E-parallel-B analyzer that uses a two-dimensional array of detectors with one axis corresponding to charge-to-mass ratio and the other corresponding to momentum. Unlike the scanning instrument, the E-parallel-B analyzer is able to record the momentum and mass of each incident particle. One source of ions at the lunar surface is atoms in the lunar atmosphere that have been photoionized by solar UV, thus ion detection provides a means of determining the composition of the tenuous lunar atmosphere. We will present the design of an analyzer with a microchannel plate that is optimized for the ion energies and masses expected at the lunar surface.
Collette A.
Horanyi Mihaly
Munsat T.
Robertson S. H.
Sternovsky Zoltan
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