Study of the radiation environment on MIR space station with SILEYE-2 experiment

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 135-140

  Casolino, M ^a   Bidoli, V ^a   De Grandis, E ^a   De Pascale, M P ^a   Furano, G ^a   Morselli, A ^a   Narici, L ^a   Picozza, P ^a   Reali, E ^a   Sparvoli, R ^a   Galper, A ^b   Korotkov, M ^b   Ozerov, Y ^b   Popov, A ^b   Mazzenga, G ^c   Ricci, M ^c   Castellini, G ^d   Avdeev, S ^e   Boezio, M ^f   Bonvicini, W ^e   Vacchi, A ^e   Zampa, N ^e   Spillantini, P ^g   Carlson, P ^h   Fuglesang, C ⁱ   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH NUCLEAR UNIVERSITY MEPHI   (Russian Federation)

^c INFN LABORATORI NAZIONALI DI FRASCATI   (Italy)

^d CNR   (Italy)

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

^f SEZIONE DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

^g INFN SEZIONE DI FIRENZE   (Italy)

^h ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

ⁱ ESA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; COSMIC RAYS; DETECTORS; MONITORING; RADIATION; SILICON; SPACE STATIONS; TELESCOPES;

COSMONAUTS;

SPACE RESEARCH;

SPACE;

EID: 12244271050     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1177(02)00880-3     Document Type: Article

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