Calibration of RADMON radiation monitor onboard Aalto-1 CubeSat

Oleynik, Philipp; Vainio, Rami; Punkkinen, Arttu; Dudnik, Oleksiy; Gieseler, Jan; Hedman, Hannu Pekka; Hietala, Heli; Hæggström, Edward; Niemelä, Petri; Peltonen, Juhani; Praks, Jaan; Punkkinen, Risto; Säntti, Tero; Valtonen, Eino

Aaltodoc
→
6b Artikkelit / Articles from Research information portal
→
[article-cris] Sähkötekniikan korkeakoulu / ELEC
→
View Item

Calibration of RADMON radiation monitor onboard Aalto-1 CubeSat

Altmetrics



Title:	Calibration of RADMON radiation monitor onboard Aalto-1 CubeSat
Author(s):	Oleynik, Philipp ; Vainio, Rami ; Punkkinen, Arttu ; Dudnik, Oleksiy ; Gieseler, Jan ; Hedman, Hannu Pekka ; Hietala, Heli ; Hæggström, Edward ; Niemelä, Petri ; Peltonen, Juhani ; Praks, Jaan ; Punkkinen, Risto ; Säntti, Tero ; Valtonen, Eino
Date:	2019-12-02
Language:	en
Department:	University of Turku NASU - Institute of Radio Astronomy University of Helsinki Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering
Series:	Advances in Space Research
ISSN:	0273-1177
DOI-number:	10.1016/j.asr.2019.11.020
Subject:	Aerospace Engineering, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Space and Planetary Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences(all), 115 Astronomy and space science
Keywords:	CubeSats, Electron precipitation, Radiation belts, Solar energetic particles, Aerospace Engineering, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Space and Planetary Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences(all), 115 Astronomy and space science
» Show full item record
This publication is imported from Aalto University Research information portal: https://research.aalto.fi > View this publication in Research information portal > Other link related to publication (Research information portal) > Other link related to publication (Research information portal)
Citation: Oleynik , P , Vainio , R , Punkkinen , A , Dudnik , O , Gieseler , J , Hedman , H P , Hietala , H , Hæggström , E , Niemelä , P , Peltonen , J , Praks , J , Punkkinen , R , Säntti , T & Valtonen , E 2019 , ' Calibration of RADMON radiation monitor onboard Aalto-1 CubeSat ' , Advances in Space Research . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2019.11.020
Abstract: RADMON is a small radiation monitor designed and assembled by students of University of Turku and 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 ΔE-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.

Permanent link to this item: http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:aalto-202001021270 Email this Export to RefWorks QR Code Print BibTex Tweet