Electron and ion spectrometer onboard the Nozomi spacecraft and its initial results in interplanetary space

A. Ihara*, T. Doke, Nobuyuki Hasebe, J. Kikuchi, M. N. Kobayashi, K. Maezawa, K. Nagata, T. Sakaguchi, T. Shino, T. Takashima, S. Teruhi, B. Wilken, T. Yanagimachi

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    Abstract

    The electron and ion spectrometer (EIS) is one of the fourteen instruments onboard the Nozomi spacecraft, a Mars orbiter, launched on July 4, 1998. EIS consists of two kinds of telescopes (TOF E and ΔE E telescopes) designed to measure the fluxes of electrons and ions in the energy range from ∼40 keV to a few MeV. The ΔE-E telescopes are used to measure electrons and protons, while the TOF-E telescope is mainly used to measure He, CNO-group, NeMgSi-group, and Fe-group. In this paper, (a) the objectives of this experiment, (b) the details of the instrument and (c) initial results of the observation in interplanetary space are described.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)263-278
    Number of pages16
    JournalAstroparticle Physics
    Volume17
    Issue number3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2002

    Keywords

    • ΔE-E
    • CME
    • Energetic particles
    • Interplanetary space
    • Nozomi
    • Solar flares
    • TOF-E

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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