2013 Radiation Belts Workshop: Comprehending, Specifying and Forecasting their Dynamics

Electron and proton discrimination in count rate data applied to SREM measurements in the radiation belts

1 Jul 2013, 16:30

30m

Island of Santorini, Greece (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santorini)

Oral Specification Models of the Radiation Belts: Radiation Environment Data Analyses/Validation Specification Models of the Radiation Belts

Speaker

Dr Sebastien Bourdarie (ONERA)

Description

The definition of regions or times when protons or electrons dominates particle measurements in the radiation belt is deduced from correlation analysis of available channels on the instrument under study. This deep analysis is applied to PROBA-1/SREM and INTEGRAL/SREM measurements in this paper but could be easily applied to any other measurements. First, in flight data will be presented as well as a data analysis dedicated to background level and saturation and glitches issues. Then, taking the advantage of having access to the instrument response functions, it is then possible to discriminate electrons and protons contribution to each individual channel from statistical analysis.