Jahn, J.-M.,
Co-Authors: G. D. Reeves, H. D. Voss, M. Walt, J. Mobilia, J. B. Blake, and M. G. Henderson,
Title: Survey of the Source/loss-cone Energetic Particle Spectrometer (SEPS) database,
Reference: AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 8-12 December, 1997.
Reference Type: Contributed Talk
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Abstract:
The CEPPAD Source/loss-cone Energetic Particle Spectrometer (SEPS) on the NASA Polar satellite uses solid-state detector arrays to provide images of energetic protons and electrons in 16 energy intervals. The instrument provides $1.5\deg$ angular resolution over maximum field-of-views of $48\deg \times 24\deg$ for electrons and $\22\deg \times 22\deg$ for ions, respectively. The location of SEPS on the despun platform of the satellite allows to control the instrument look direction and thus to map particle fluxes near the magnetic-field aligned source and loss cone regions. In this paper we present a survey of the existing SEPS measurement database. The study focuses on a description of typical SEPS imaging results for the magnetospheric regions traversed by Polar. Various magnetospheric conditions will be taken into account. In addition to a general survey of the database we will present measurements during periods of interesting magnetospheric phenomena such as polar energetic particle events.
