ISEE-C HKH high energy cosmic rays.
Abstract
The paper describes the ISEE-C multidetector cosmic ray telescope experiment. The HKH particle identifier sensor array is designed to identify the charge and mass of incident cosmic ray nuclei from H-1 to Ni-64 over the energy range of approximately 20 to 500 MeV/nucleon. Particle identification is based on the multiple energy loss technique. The scientific aspects of the experiment are briefly reviewed and consideration is given to the flight hardware, including sensors, event encoding, buffer memory, redundancy and commandability, and packaging.
- Publication:
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IEEE Transactions on Geoscience Electronics
- Pub Date:
- July 1978
- DOI:
- 10.1109/TGE.1978.294539
- Bibcode:
- 1978ITGE...16..163G
- Keywords:
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- Cosmic Rays;
- High Energy Interactions;
- International Sun Earth Explorer 3;
- Particle Telescopes;
- Spaceborne Telescopes;
- Abundance;
- Buffer Storage;
- Coding;
- Energetic Particles;
- Radiation Counters;
- Redundancy;
- Silicon Radiation Detectors;
- Space Instrumentation