The IBEX background monitor

The IBEX Background Monitor (IBaM) provides a small and lightweight method for independently measuring IBEX’s high-energy proton background by integrating the flux of >~14 keV protons over a ~7° conical FOV. The IBaM is part of the IBEX-Hi sensor and has a co-aligned look direction. This paper de...

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Main Authors: Crew, Geoffrey B., Allegrini, F., Demkee, D., Funsten, H. O., McComas, David J., Randol, B., Rodriguez, B., Schwadron, N. A., Valek, P., Weidner, S.
Other Authors: MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Springer Netherlands 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65846