1. In-flight performances of SilEye-2 Experiment and cosmic ray abundances inside space station Mir
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Avdeev, S., Bidoli, V., Bonvicini, W., Boezio, M., Carlson, P., Casolino, M., Castellini, G., De Grandis, E., De Pascale, M. P., Fuglesang, C., Furano, G., Galper, A., Khodarovich, A., Korotkov, M., Mazzenga, G., Morselli, A., Narici, L., Papini, P., Picozza, P., Popov, A., Reali, E., Ricci, M., Sparvoli, R., Spillantini, P., Vacchi, A., Vavilov, N., and Zampa, N.
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Astrophysics - Abstract
Cosmic ray measurements performed with the instrument SilEye-2 on Mir space station are presented. SilEye-2 is a silicon detector telescope for the study of the causes of Light Flashes perception by astronauts. As a stand-alone device, it monitors in the short and long term the radiation composition inside Mir. The cosmic ray detector consists of an array of 6 active silicon strip detectors which allow nuclear identification of cosmic rays up to Iron. The device was operational for more than 1000 hours in the years 1998-2000, measuring also several Solar Particle Events. In this work we present the in-flight performance of the instrument and nuclear abundance data from Boron to Silicon above ~150 MeV/n inside Mir., Comment: 18 pages, 8 figures
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- 2001