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The Two Wide-angle Imaging Neutral-atom Spectrometers (TWINS) NASA Mission-of-Opportunity 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
D. J. McComas F. Allegrini J. Baldonado B. Blake P. C. Brandt J. Burch J. Clemmons W. Crain D. Delapp R. DeMajistre D. Everett H. Fahr L. Friesen H. Funsten J. Goldstein M. Gruntman R. Harbaugh R. Harper H. Henkel C. Holmlund G. Lay D. Mabry D. Mitchell U. Nass C. Pollock S. Pope M. Reno S. Ritzau E. Roelof E. Scime M. Sivjee R. Skoug T. S. Sotirelis M. Thomsen C. Urdiales P. Valek K. Viherkanto S. Weidner T. Ylikorpi M. Young J. Zoennchen 《Space Science Reviews》2009,142(1-4):157-231
Two Wide-angle Imaging Neutral-atom Spectrometers (TWINS) is a NASA Explorer Mission-of-Opportunity to stereoscopically image the Earth’s magnetosphere for the first time. TWINS extends our understanding of magnetospheric structure and processes by providing simultaneous Energetic Neutral Atom (ENA) imaging from two widely separated locations. TWINS observes ENAs from 1–100 keV with high angular (~4°×4°) and time (~1-minute) resolution. The TWINS Ly-α monitor measures the geocoronal hydrogen density to aid in ENA analysis while environmental sensors provide contemporaneous measurements of the local charged particle environments. By imaging ENAs with identical instruments from two widely spaced, high-altitude, high-inclination spacecraft, TWINS enables three-dimensional visualization of the large-scale structures and dynamics within the magnetosphere for the first time. This “instrument paper” documents the TWINS design, construction, calibration, and initial results. Finally, the appendix of this paper describes and documents the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) instrument calibration facility; this facility was used for all TWINS instrument-level calibrations. 相似文献
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Nordholt Jane E. Wiens Roger C. Abeyta Rudy A. Baldonado Juan R. Burnett Donald S. Casey Patrick Everett Daniel T. Kroesche Joseph Lockhart Walter L. MacNeal Paul McComas David J. Mietz Donald E. Moses Ronald W. Neugebauer Marcia Poths Jane Reisenfeld Daniel B. Storms Steven A. Urdiales Carlos 《Space Science Reviews》2003,105(3-4):561-599
The primary goal of the Genesis Mission is to collect solar wind ions and, from their analysis, establish key isotopic ratios
that will help constrain models of solar nebula formation and evolution. The ratios of primary interest include 17O/16O and 18O/16O to ±0.1%, 15N/14N to ±1%, and the Li, Be, and B elemental and isotopic abundances. The required accuracies in N and O ratios cannot be achieved
without concentrating the solar wind and implanting it into low-background target materials that are returned to Earth for
analysis. The Genesis Concentrator is designed to concentrate the heavy ion flux from the solar wind by an average factor
of at least 20 and implant it into a target of ultra-pure, well-characterized materials. High-transparency grids held at high
voltages are used near the aperture to reject >90% of the protons, avoiding damage to the target. Another set of grids and
applied voltages are used to accelerate and focus the remaining ions to implant into the target. The design uses an energy-independent
parabolic ion mirror to focus ions onto a 6.2 cm diameter target of materials selected to contain levels of O and other elements
of interest established and documented to be below 10% of the levels expected from the concentrated solar wind. To optimize
the concentration of the ions, voltages are constantly adjusted based on real-time solar wind speed and temperature measurements
from the Genesis ion monitor. Construction of the Concentrator required new developments in ion optics; materials; and instrument
testing and handling.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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