The time-of-flight spectrometer SULEICA for ions of the energy range 5-270 keV/charge on AMPTE IRM
Abstract
The suprathermal energy ionic charge analyzer on AMPTE IRM is an instrument to determine the ionic-charge state and mass composition of all major ions from H through Fe for energies of the suprathermal plasma (approximately 5 up to approximately 270 keV/charge) by the use of electrostatic deflection, time-of-flight measurement, and energy analysis in solid-state detectors. With its acceptance fan of 40 x 10 deg the instrument scans a field of 360 by 40 deg in the satellite spin plane. The data contain counting-rate information for the evaluation of absolute particle fluxes, live pulse-height events, and matrix rates for selected ions from on-board processing with a microprocessor.
- Publication:
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IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
- Pub Date:
- May 1985
- DOI:
- 10.1109/TGRS.1985.289527
- Bibcode:
- 1985ITGRS..23..274M
- Keywords:
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- Ion Charge;
- Magnetospheric Ion Density;
- Plasma Composition;
- Satellite-Borne Instruments;
- Solar Wind;
- Time Of Flight Spectrometers;
- Boundary Layers;
- Energetic Particles;
- Equipment Specifications;
- High Temperature Plasmas;
- Mass Spectrometers;
- Onboard Data Processing;
- Particle Acceleration;
- Transport Properties