Abstract Output current of silicon solar cells of Akebono satellite orbiting in the inner magnetosphere decreased from 13A in 1989 to about 7A in 2009, due to accumulated damage by energetic particles. A fair correlation between the monthly decrease rate of solar cell output current and trapped proton flux was found between 1989 and 1992, indicating that trapped energetic protons are responsible for the solar cell degradation. Simple variation from month to month was dominated by a fluctuation with one-year period and the correlation was not discernible after 1993. On the other hand, during orbiting the earth, another kind of decrease of output current emerged at low altitude above the sub-solar point, i.e., in the midst of sunlit condition. The decrease was larger in later years. The fact indicates more prominent temperature effect in the later years because of progress of the degradation. By removing data affected by the orbit condition above, variation from the same month in the previous year shows a clear oscillation due to orbit precession correlated with trapped energetic proton flux up to 1996. The amplitude of the annual variation oscillation tends to be larger than that expected from a degradation model based on energetic proton distribution of the NASA’s AP8 model. The larger oscillation amplitude suggests that the proton radiation belt was more sharply localized than given by the AP8 model throughout the early half of 1990s.


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    Titel :

    On the spatial extent of the proton radiation belt from solar cell output variation of the Akebono satellite


    Beteiligte:
    Miyake, W. (Autor:in) / Miyoshi, Y. (Autor:in) / Matsuoka, A. (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Advances in Space Research ; 53 , 11 ; 1603-1609


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2014-03-01


    Format / Umfang :

    7 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch


    Schlagwörter :


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