Calibration of RADMON radiation monitor onboard Aalto-1 CubeSat
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2020-07-01
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10
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Advances in Space Research, Volume 66, issue 1, pp. 42-51
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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.Description
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CubeSats, Electron precipitation, Radiation belts, Solar energetic particles
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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 2020, 'Calibration of RADMON radiation monitor onboard Aalto-1 CubeSat', Advances in Space Research, vol. 66, no. 1, pp. 42-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2019.11.020