Gamma radiation background measurements from Spacelab 2
- 1 January 1989
- proceedings article
- Published by AIP Publishing in AIP Conference Proceedings
- Vol. 186 (1) , 225-231
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.38181
Abstract
A Nuclear Radiation Monitor incorporating a NaI(Tl) scintillation detector was flown as part of the verification flight instrumentation on the Spacelab 2 mission, July 29–August 6, 1985. γ‐ray spectra were measured with better than 20 s resolution throughout most of the mission in the energy range 0.1 to 30 MeV. Knowledge of the decay characteristics and the geomagnetic dependence of the counting rates enable measurement of the various components of the Spacelab γ‐ray background: prompt secondary radiation, Earth albedo, and delayed induced radioactivity. We summarize herein the present status of the data analysis and present relevant examples of typical background behavior.Keywords
This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: