Onboard radiometric photography of EXCEDE SPECTRAL's ejected-electron beam
Abstract
The details of a wide-angle camera system used in the EXCEDE SPECTRAL experiment to determine spatial distributions of energy deposition are discussed, along with the camera calibrating and film data reduction procedures. The measured column emission rate distributions within a few tens of meters from the rocket between 123 and 83 km are presented and compared wit the predictions of an independent particle transport model. Spatial distributions of emission can be assessed with the aid of unfolds from the radiometrically calibrated photographs.
- Publication:
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Artificial Particle Beams in Space Plasma Studies
- Pub Date:
- October 1982
- Bibcode:
- 1982apbs.proc..217K
- Keywords:
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- Beam Injection;
- Cameras;
- Electron Beams;
- Onboard Equipment;
- Radiometric Correction;
- Satellite-Borne Photography;
- Calibrating;
- Photographic Equipment;
- Plasma Diagnostics;
- Spatial Distribution;
- Spacecraft Instrumentation