CEPPAD - Comprehensive energetic particle and pitch angle distribution experiment on POLAR

  • J. B. Blake*
  • , J. F. Fennell
  • , L. M. Friesen
  • , B. M. Johnson
  • , W. A. Kolasinski
  • , D. J. Mabry
  • , J. V. Osborn
  • , S. H. Penzin
  • , E. R. Schnauss
  • , H. E. Spence
  • , D. N. Baker
  • , R. Belian
  • , T. A. Fritz
  • , W. Ford
  • , B. Laubscher
  • , R. Stiglich
  • , R. A. Baraze
  • , M. F. Hilsenrath
  • , W. L. Imhof
  • , J. R. Kilner
  • J. Mobilia, D. H. Voss, A. Korth, M. Güll, K. Fisher, M. Grande, D. Hall
*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The CEPPAD Experiment consists of four sensors for investigating energetic particle phenomena on the POLAR mission. These sensors provide 3-D proton and electron angular distributions in the energy range of 20 keV to 1 MeV, energetic proton and electron measurements extending to energies greater than 10 MEV, high angular and time resolution measurements in the loss-cone, and data on energetic neutral particles. All sensors operate in conjunction with special on-board data processing units which control sensor data acquisition modes while performing in-flight data processing, data compression, and telemetry formatting. Presented here is a CEPPAD system overview together with descriptions of the individual sensors, the in-flight data processing, and examples of sensor calibration data.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)531-562
Number of pages32
JournalSpace Science Reviews
Volume71
Issue number1-4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Feb 1995

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