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

The Energetic Particle Telescope (EPT): Data analysis methodology

1 Jul 2013, 15:30

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 Stanislav Borisov (Center for Space Radiations, Université catholique de Louvain)

Description

The Proba-V satellite was launched on the 7th May 2013 onto a sun-synchronous circular low earth orbit at 820 km altitude and 98.7 deg. inclination. The Energetic Particle Telescope (EPT) onboard Proba-V was developed to provide real-time measurements of contamination-free energy spectra of electrons (0.5 – 10 MeV), protons (9 – 300 MeV), α-particles (38 – 1200 MeV) and heavier ions (up to 300 MeV/nucleon) within the space radiation environment. This presentation reports on the EPT concept, its energy channel definition along with a more detailed description of the general performances based on the intrinsic detection efficiency functions. The calibration and functional validation methodologies will briefly be described, followed by the presentation of first results obtained from the instrument in space.