Calibration of RADMON Radiation Monitor Onboard Aalto-1 CubeSat
Philipp Oleynik (1), Rami Vainio (1), Arttu Punkkinen (1), Oleksiy Dudnik (3), Jan Gieseler (1), Hannu-Pekka Hedman (2), Heli Hietala (1), Edward Hæggström (5), Petri Niemelä (4), Juhani Peltonen (1), Jaan Praks (4), Risto Punkkinen (2), Tero Säntti (2), Eino Valtonen (1) ((1) Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Turku, (2) Department of Future Technologies of the University of Turku, (3) Institute of Radio Astronomy National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, (4) School of Electrical Engineering of Aalto University, (5) Department of Physics of the University of Helsinki)
(Submitted on 18 Nov 2019)
RADMON is a small radiation monitor designed and assembled by students of the University of Turku and the University of Helsinki. It is flown on-board Aalto-1, a 3-unit CubeSat in low Earth orbit at about 500 km altitude. The detector unit of the instrument consists of two detectors, a Si solid-state detector and a CsI(Tl) scintillator, and utilizes the \textDelta{E}-E technique to determine the total energy and species of each particle hitting the detector. We present the results of the on-ground and in-flight calibration campaigns of the instrument, as well as the characterization of its response through extensive simulations within the Geant4 framework. The overall energy calibration margin achieved is about 5\%. The full instrument response to protons and electrons is presented and the issue of proton contamination of the electron channels is quantified and discussed.
Comments: 27 pages, 9 figures
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
Cite as: arXiv:1911.07550 [astro-ph.IM] (or arXiv:1911.07550v1 [astro-ph.IM] for this version)
Submission history
From: Philipp Oleynik [view email]
[v1] Mon, 18 Nov 2019 11:25:52 UTC (4,017 KB)
