Colorado Student Space Weather Experiment: Differential Flux Measurements of Energetic Particles in a Highly Inclined Low Earth Orbit

Author(s):  
X. Li ◽  
S. Palo ◽  
R. Kohnert ◽  
D. Gerhardt ◽  
L. Blum ◽  
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Space Weather ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (11) ◽  
pp. 1806-1816 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Bruinsma ◽  
E. Sutton ◽  
S. C. Solomon ◽  
T. Fuller-Rowell ◽  
M. Fedrizzi

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. A01 ◽  
Author(s):  
Athanassios C. Katsiyannis ◽  
Marie Dominique ◽  
Viviane Pierrard ◽  
Graciela Lopez Rosson ◽  
Johan De Keyser ◽  
...  

Aims. To better understand the radiation environment in low Earth orbit (LEO), the analysis of in-situ observations of a variety of particles, at different atmospheric heights, and in a wide range of energies, is needed. Methods. We present an analysis of energetic particles, indirectly detected by the large yield radiometer (LYRA) instrument on board ESA's project for on-board autonomy 2 (PROBA2) satellite as background signal. Combining energetic particle telescope (EPT) observations with LYRA data for an overlapping period of time, we identified these particles as electrons with an energy range of 2 to 8 MeV. Results. The observed events are strongly correlated to geo-magnetic activity and appear even during modest disturbances. They are also well confined geographically within the L = 4–6 McIlwain zone, which makes it possible to identify their source. Conclusions. Although highly energetic particles are commonly perturbing data acquisition of space instruments, we show in this work that ultra-relativistic electrons with energies in the range of 2–8 MeV are detected only at high latitudes, while not present in the South Atlantic Anomaly region.


2018 ◽  
Vol 123 (11) ◽  
pp. 9574-9596 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hayley J. Allison ◽  
Richard B. Horne ◽  
Sarah A. Glauert ◽  
Giulio Del Zanna

1983 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. KATZ ◽  
D. COOKE ◽  
D. PARKS ◽  
M. MANDELL ◽  
A. RUBIN

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