Device detecting neutral solar wind and laboratory tests.
Abstract
The GAS-2 was designed to detect neutral atoms of the solar wind with typical energies of about 1 keV. The coincidence technique separates fast atoms from the intense flux of photons from the Sun. The energy of detected hydrogen atoms is estimated using the time-of-flight method. The device was built for the RELIKT-2 spacecraft and was laboratory tested.
- Publication:
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Instrum. Exp. Tech
- Pub Date:
- December 1995
- Bibcode:
- 1995IExT...38..755K
- Keywords:
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- Solar Wind: Space Instrumentation;
- Solar Wind: Particles