Calibration facility for solar wind plasma instrumentation

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Feb 2001

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Review of Scientific Instruments, Volume 72, Issue 2, pp. 1354-1360 (2001).

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Solar Instruments, Solar Wind Plasma, Sources Of Solar Wind, Charged-Particle Beam Sources And Detectors, Laboratory Studies Of Space- And Astrophysical-Plasma Processes

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Space-borne analysis of the composition of the solar wind offers the unique possibility of direct measurement of material originating from the sun. For development, testing, and calibration of solar wind particle instrumentation, particle beams of highly charged ions for all elements from hydrogen up to iron are needed. Although sources for these ions have been available for some time, the special demands of space instrumentation made it necessary to build a dedicated facility. We built an electron-cyclotron-resonance ion source operating at 2.45 GHz. The ion source is installed on a high voltage platform allowing for postacceleration potentials of up to 100 kV. Ions are produced from elements in gaseous and solid phase; the latter from vapor emitted from a high temperature furnace closely attached to the ion source.

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