Informace o projektu
SPACE - Soft Proton Athena Contamination Exploration Experiment
(SPACE)
- Kód projektu
- MUNI/IGA/1307/2020
- Období řešení
- 1/2021 - 12/2021
- Investor / Programový rámec / typ projektu
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Masarykova univerzita
- Interní grantová agentura MU
- Fakulta / Pracoviště MU
- Přírodovědecká fakulta
The upcoming ESA mission, Athena, will suffer the same (soft) proton contamination as seen in the current generation of X-ray telescopes, which has caused 40% of observing time loss. It is hypothesized that soft proton contamination originates from solar wind and space weather effects, although the physical processes that trigger this background are still poorly understood. Using contaminated X-ray and archived solar wind data, I will develop a soft proton background model to reduce time loss.