Instrumental and observational requirements for space-based imaging of magnetospheric emissions

Details Instrumental and observational requirements for space-based imaging of magnetospheric emissions Instrumental and observational requirements for space-based imaging of magnetospheric emissions

Jun 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992spie.1744...13r&link_type=abstract

Proc. SPIE Vol. 1744, p. 13-18, Instrumentation for Magnetospheric Imagery, Supriya Chakrabarti; Ed.

Physics

Optics

Scientific paper

Simulated images of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) emissions form energetic outflowing ions have been constructed to study techniques for remotely sensing the dynamic behavior of hot plasmas in the near-Earth environment. These calculations include realistic assumptions about the energetic ion outflow from high latitudes and take into account the effects of cold plasmaspheric and ionospheric ions. The energetic ion outflow is determined from a statistical study based on five years of measurements from the Energetic Ion Composition Spectrometer on Dynamics Explorer 1. The simulated images change significantly with viewing geometry and certain spacecraft locations are clearly favorable for observing emissions from energetic ions. For example, for a near equatorial orbit, viewing locations greater than 9 Earth radii are required to observe outflowing ions above the cold plasmaspheric background. We will discuss other important considerations for magnetospheric imaging including the sensitivity requirements of the detector. In particular, we consider the performance of multi-layer optics for EUV wavelengths.

Affiliated with

Also associated with

No associations

Rating

Instrumental and observational requirements for space-based imaging of magnetospheric emissions does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this scientific paper.

If you have personal experience with Instrumental and observational requirements for space-based imaging of magnetospheric emissions, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Instrumental and observational requirements for space-based imaging of magnetospheric emissions will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

Comments { 0 }

Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-1524544