TY - JOUR
T1 - The energetic particle telescope (EPT) on board PROBA-V
T2 - Description of a new science-class instrument for particle detection in space
AU - Cyamukungu, Mathias
AU - Benck, Sylvie
AU - Borisov, Stanislav
AU - Gregoire, Ghislain
AU - Cabrera, Juan
AU - Bonnet, Jean Luc
AU - Desoete, Bart
AU - Preudrhomme, Frank
AU - Semaille, Christophe
AU - Creve, Glenn
AU - Saedeleer, Juergen De
AU - Ilsen, Stijn
AU - De Busser, Luc
AU - Pierrard, Viviane
AU - Bonnewijn, Sabrina
AU - Maes, Jeroen
AU - Ransbeeck, Emiel Van
AU - Neefs, Eddy
AU - Lemaire, Joseph
AU - Valtonen, Eino
AU - Punkkinen, Risto
AU - Anciaux, Michel
AU - Litefti, Karim
AU - Brun, Nicolas
AU - Pauwels, Dirk
AU - Quevrin, Cyril
AU - Moreau, Didier
AU - Helderweirt, Anuschka
AU - Hajdas, Wojtek
AU - Nieminen, Petteri
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2014/12/1
Y1 - 2014/12/1
N2 - This paper provides a detailed description of the Energetic Particle Telescope (EPT) accommodated on board the PROBA-V satellite launched on May 7th, 2013 on a LEO, 820 km altitude, 98.7 inclination and a 10:30-11:30 Local Time at Descending Node. The EPT is an ionizing particle spectrometer that was designed based on a new concept and the most advanced signal processing technologies: it performs in-flight electron and ion discrimination and classifies each detected particle in its corresponding physical channels from which the incident spectrum can be readily reconstructed. The detector measures electron fluxes in the energy range 0.5-20 MeV, proton fluxes in the energy range 9.5-300 MeV and He-ion fluxes between 38 and 1200 MeV. The EPT is a modular configurable instrument with customizable maximum energy, field of view angle, geometrical factor and angular resolution. Therefore, the features of the currently flying instrument may slightly differ from those described in past or future configurations. After a description of the instrument along with the data acquisition and analysis procedures, the first particle fluxes measured by the EPT will be shown and discussed. The web-site located at http://web.csr.ucl.ac.be/csr-web/probav/which daily displays measured fluxes and other related studies will also be briefly described.
AB - This paper provides a detailed description of the Energetic Particle Telescope (EPT) accommodated on board the PROBA-V satellite launched on May 7th, 2013 on a LEO, 820 km altitude, 98.7 inclination and a 10:30-11:30 Local Time at Descending Node. The EPT is an ionizing particle spectrometer that was designed based on a new concept and the most advanced signal processing technologies: it performs in-flight electron and ion discrimination and classifies each detected particle in its corresponding physical channels from which the incident spectrum can be readily reconstructed. The detector measures electron fluxes in the energy range 0.5-20 MeV, proton fluxes in the energy range 9.5-300 MeV and He-ion fluxes between 38 and 1200 MeV. The EPT is a modular configurable instrument with customizable maximum energy, field of view angle, geometrical factor and angular resolution. Therefore, the features of the currently flying instrument may slightly differ from those described in past or future configurations. After a description of the instrument along with the data acquisition and analysis procedures, the first particle fluxes measured by the EPT will be shown and discussed. The web-site located at http://web.csr.ucl.ac.be/csr-web/probav/which daily displays measured fluxes and other related studies will also be briefly described.
KW - Energetic particle detector
KW - Space radiation environment
KW - instrumentation
KW - particle spectrometer
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84919934418&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/TNS.2014.2361955
DO - 10.1109/TNS.2014.2361955
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AN - SCOPUS:84919934418
SN - 0018-9499
VL - 61
SP - 3667
EP - 3681
JO - IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
JF - IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
IS - 6
ER -