The Time-of-Flight Spectrometer SULEICA for Ions of the Energy Range 5-270 keV/Charge on AMPTE IRM

Author

Mobius, E. ; Gloeckler, G. ; Hovestadt, D. ; Ipavich, F.M. ; Klecker, B. ; Scholer, M. ; Arbinger, H. ; Hofner, H. ; Kunneth, E. ; Laeverenz, P. ; Luhn, A. ; Tums, E.O. ; Waldleben, H.

Author_Institution

Max-Planck-Institute fÃ¿r Physik und Astrophysik, Institut fÃ¿r extraterrestrische Physik, 8046 Garching, 3ermany

Issue

3

fYear

1985

fDate

5/1/1985 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

274

Lastpage

279

Abstract

The Suprathermal Energy Ionic Charge Analyzer (SULEICA) on AMPTE IRM is an instrument to determine the ionic charge state and mass composition of all major ions from H through Fe for energies of the suprathermal plasma (Â¿5 up to Â¿270 keV/charge) by the use of electrostatic deflection, time-of-flight measurement, and energy analysis in solid-state detectors. With its acceptance fan of 400Â° X 10Â° the instrument scans a field of 360Â° by 40Â° in the satellite spin plane. The data contain counting rate information for the evaluation of absolute particle fluxes, live pulse-height events, and matrix rates for selected ions from on-board processing with a microprocessor.

Keywords

Charge measurement; Current measurement; Electrostatic analysis; Electrostatic measurements; Energy measurement; Instruments; Iron; Plasma measurements; Solid state circuits; Spectroscopy;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0196-2892

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TGRS.1985.289527

Filename

4072291