A wide-beam continuous solar simulator for simulating the solar flux at the orbit of Mercury

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Thomas, N ^a   Beck, T ^a   Chakraborty, S ^a   Gerber, M ^a   Graf, S ^a   Piazza, D ^a   Roethlisberger, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

optical wavelengths; space simulation; sunlight

Indexed keywords

INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; MERCURY (METAL); SOLAR RADIATION; SPACE FLIGHT;

COLLIMATED BEAMS; FLUX DISTRIBUTIONS; OPTICAL WAVELENGTH; SOLAR IRRADIANCES; SOLAR SIMULATOR; SPACE SIMULATIONS; SPACECRAFT MISSIONS; SUNLIGHT;

ORBITS;

EID: 79956137305     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: 13616501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/22/6/065903     Document Type: Conference Paper

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