Study of cosmic rays and light flashes on board space station MIR: The SilEye experiment

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 2075-2079

  Bidoli, V ^d   Casolino, M ^d   De Pascale, M P ^d   Furano, G ^d   Morselli, A ^d   Narici, L ^d   Picozza, P ^d   Reali, E ^d   Sparvoli, R ^d   Galper, A M ^d   Ozerov, Yu V ^d   Popov, A V ^d   Vaviloy, N R ^d   Alexandrov, A P ^a   Avdeev, S V ^a   Baturin, Yu ^a   Budarin, Yu ^a   Padalko, G ^a   Shabelnikov, V G ^a   Barbellini, G ^d   Bonvicini, W ^d   Vacchi, A ^d   Zampa, N ^d   Bartalucci, S ^d   Mazzenga, G ^d   Ricci, M ^d   Adriani, O ^d   Spillantini, P ^d   Boezio, M ^b   Carlson, P ^b   Fuglesang, C ^b   Castellini, G ^c   Sannita, W G ^d   more..

^a S P KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA   (Russian Federation)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTON; SILICON;

ARTICLE; COSMIC RADIATION; DARK ADAPTATION; FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; LONG DURATION; MANNED; MIR PROJECT; PHOTOSTIMULATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SPACE FLIGHT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VISION;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; LONG DURATION; MANNED; MIR PROJECT;

COSMIC RADIATION; DARK ADAPTATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LIGHT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROTONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; SILICON; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACECRAFT; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033656378     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1177(99)01017-0     Document Type: Article

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