The high-energy proton fluxes in the SAA observed with REM aboard the MIR orbital station

Radiation Measurements

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 489-497

  Bühler, Paul ^a   Zehnder, A ^a   Kruglanski, M ^b   Daly, E ^c   Adams, L ^c  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b BELGIAN INSTITUTE FOR SPACE AERONOMY   (Belgium)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Low Earth Orbit; MIR space station; South Atlantic Anomaly; Space radiation environment

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; PARTICLE DETECTORS; PROTONS; SPACE STATIONS;

SPACE RADIATION ENVIRONMENT;

COSMIC RAYS;

PROTON;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRON; FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; LONG DURATION; MANNED; MICROCLIMATE; MIR PROJECT; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; SOLAR ENERGY; SOUTH AMERICA; SPACE FLIGHT; STATISTICAL MODEL; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; LONG DURATION; MANNED; MIR PROJECT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ELECTRONS; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROTONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; SOLAR ACTIVITY; SOUTH AMERICA; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACECRAFT; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

EID: 0036772036     PISSN: 13504487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4487(02)00079-3     Document Type: Article

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