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A radiation belt monitor for the High Energy Transient Experiment SatelliteA Radiation Belt Monitor (RBM) sensitive to protons and electrons with energy approximately greater than 0.5 MeV has been designed for the High Energy Transient Experiment (HETE) satellite in order to: first, control the on-off configuration of the experiments (i.e. those susceptible to proton damage); and second, to indicate the presence of proton and/or electron events that could masquerade as legitimate high energy photon events. One of the two RBM channels has an enhanced sensitivity to electrons. Each channel of the RBM, based on a PIN silicon diode, requires a typical power of 6 milliwatts. Tests have been performed with protons with energies from approximately 0.1 to 2.5 MeV (generated by a Cockcroft-Walton linear accelerator via the d(d,p)t reaction), and with electrons with energies up to 1 MeV (from a 1.0 microcurie Bi-207 source).
Document ID
19950034064
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
External Source(s)
Authors
Lo, D. H.
(MIT Plasma Fusion Center Cambridge, MA, United States)
Wenzel, K. W.
(MIT Plasma Fusion Center Cambridge, MA, United States)
Petrasso, R. D.
(MIT Plasma Fusion Center Cambridge, MA, United States)
Prigozhin, G. Y.
(MIT Center for Space Research, Cambridge, MA United States)
Doty, J.
(MIT Center for Space Research, Cambridge, MA United States)
Ricker, G.
(MIT Center for Space Research, Cambridge, MA United States)
Date Acquired
August 16, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1993
Publication Information
Publication: Experimental Astronomy
Volume: 4
Issue: 1
ISSN: 0922-6435
Subject Category
Astronomy
Accession Number
95A65663
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NASW-4690
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other

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