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The Plasma and Suprathermal Ion Composition (PLASTIC) Investigation on the STEREO Observatories |
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| Authors: | A. B. Galvin L. M. Kistler M. A. Popecki C. J. Farrugia K. D. C. Simunac L. Ellis E. Möbius M. A. Lee M. Boehm J. Carroll A. Crawshaw M. Conti P. Demaine S. Ellis J. A. Gaidos J. Googins M. Granoff A. Gustafson D. Heirtzler B. King U. Knauss J. Levasseur S. Longworth K. Singer S. Turco P. Vachon M. Vosbury M. Widholm L. M. Blush R. Karrer P. Bochsler H. Daoudi A. Etter J. Fischer J. Jost A. Opitz M. Sigrist P. Wurz B. Klecker M. Ertl E. Seidenschwang R. F. Wimmer-Schweingruber M. Koeten B. Thompson D. Steinfeld |
| Affiliation: | 1. Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space, University of New Hampshire, SSC Morse Hall, Durham, NH, 03824, USA 2. Department of Physics, University of New Hampshire, SSC Morse Hall, Durham, NH, 03824, USA 3. Physikalisches Institut, University of Bern, Sidlerstrasse 5, 3012, Bern, Switzerland 4. Max-Planck-Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik, Postfach 1312, 85741, Garching, Germany 5. Extraterrestrial Physics, Institute for Experimental and Applied Physics, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Leibnizstr. 11, 24098, Kiel, Germany 6. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, 20771, USA 7. Orbital Sciences Corporation, 7500 Greenway Center Drive, Suite 700, Greenbelt, MD, 20770, USA |
| Abstract: | The Plasma and Suprathermal Ion Composition (PLASTIC) investigation provides the in situ solar wind and low energy heliospheric ion measurements for the NASA Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory Mission, which consists of two spacecraft (STEREO-A, STEREO-B). PLASTIC-A and PLASTIC-B are identical. Each PLASTIC is a time-of-flight/energy mass spectrometer designed to determine the elemental composition, ionic charge states, and bulk flow parameters of major solar wind ions in the mass range from hydrogen to iron. PLASTIC has nearly complete angular coverage in the ecliptic plane and an energy range from ～0.3 to 80 keV/e, from which the distribution functions of suprathermal ions, including those ions created in pick-up and local shock acceleration processes, are also provided. |
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