The Magnetic Electron Ion Spectrometer (MagEIS) Instruments Aboard the Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) Spacecraft

By J. Bernard Blake, P. Carranza, Seth G. Claudepierre, J. Clemmons, W. Crain, Y. Dotan, J. Fennell, F. Fuentes, R. Galvan, J. George and 17 more. Space Science Reviews, 2013

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This paper describes the Magnetic Electron Ion Spectrometer (MagEIS) instruments aboard the RBSP spacecraft from an instrumentation and engineering point of view. There are four magnetic spectrometers aboard each of the two spacecraft, one low-energy unit (20–240 keV), two medium-energy units (80–1200 keV), and a high-energy unit (800–4800 keV). The high unit also contains a proton telescope (55 keV–20 MeV). The magnetic spectrometers focus electrons within a selected energy pass band upon a focal plane of several silicon detectors where pulse-height analysis is used to determine if the energy of the incident electron is appropriate for the electron momentum selected by the magnet. Thus each event is a two-parameter analysis, an approach leading to a greatly reduced background. The physics of these instruments are described in detail followed by the engineering implementation. The data outputs are described, and examples of the calibration results and early flight data presented.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Molecular Biology

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2. Wen Li
3. Nigel P. Meredith
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5. Y. Shprits
6. M. Hudson
7. D. N. Baker
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In Molecular Biology

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Citations in the corpus

• Earth's Van Allen Radiation Belts: From Discovery to the Van Allen Probes Era (2019, methodology): “A comparison with measurements from the Magnetic Electron‐Ion Spectrometer (MagEIS) on Van Allen Probes (Blake et al., 2013; Spence et al., 2013) using DLL from MHD‐test particle simulations is shown in Figure 6 for two CME shock‐driven storms (Li & Hudson, 2019).”
• Particle Dynamics in the Earth's Radiation Belts: Review of Current Research and Open Questions (2020, methodology): “…enhancement of tens of kiloelectron volt electrons was observed before the initial enhancement of hundreds of kiloelectron volt electrons for five intense storm periods observed with the the Magnetic Electron Ion Spectrometer (MagEIS) instrument on board the Van Allen Probes (Blake et al., 2013).”
• Science Goals and Overview of the Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) Energetic Particle, Composition, and Thermal Plasma (ECT) Suite on NASA’s Van Allen Probes Mission (2013, methodology): “These instruments are described respectively in detail in complementary publications of this same special issue (Funsten et al. 2013; Blake et al. 2013; and Baker et al. 2012).”