Satellite ATON: remote sensing of solar and thermospheric EUV radiations

Gerhard Schmidtke; E. Neske; Helmut Becker-Ross; Stefan Florek; H. Fahr; M. Roemer; N. Jakowski; D. Klaehn; Y. D. Kotov; Gerhard Kraemer; M. Paetzold; Norbert Manfred Pailer; K. Pflug

doi:10.1117/12.186609

14 September 1994 Satellite ATON: remote sensing of solar and thermospheric EUV radiations

Gerhard Schmidtke, E. Neske, Helmut Becker-Ross, Stefan Florek, H. Fahr, M. Roemer, N. Jakowski, D. Klaehn, Y. D. Kotov, Gerhard Kraemer, M. Paetzold, Norbert Manfred Pailer, K. Pflug

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Proceedings Volume 2282, Ultraviolet Technology V; (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.186609
Event: SPIE's 1994 International Symposium on Optics, Imaging, and Instrumentation, 1994, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

Long-term radiometric accuracy is a fundamental requirement for future measurement of solar and terrestrial atmospheric EUV emissions from space. Since remote sensing of EUV radiation will become an important measuring technique to explore the thermosphere, new methods have to be established to trace calibration changes of EUV instrumentation, too. With the proposed satellite ATON (Egyptian god of the sun) the solar energy input and other important thermospheric/ionospheric parameters (O₂, O, O⁺, N₂, N⁺, NO, H, He, N_e, T_n, X-rays, solar EUV energy, polar energies) shall be measured based on absolute in-flight calibration of solar and airglow instrumentation. The model payload consists of (1) auto-calibrating solar EUV spectrometers, (2) airglow-solar spectrometer, (3) airglow spectrometer (high spectral resolution), (4) EUV photometers (high data statistics), (5) radio beacon experiment and (6) photocathode arrangement (the latter to detect short-lived solar phenomena of aeronomic interest). The basic measuring concept and instrumental details are presented.

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Gerhard Schmidtke, E. Neske, Helmut Becker-Ross, Stefan Florek, H. Fahr, M. Roemer, N. Jakowski, D. Klaehn, Y. D. Kotov, Gerhard Kraemer, M. Paetzold, Norbert Manfred Pailer, and K. Pflug "Satellite ATON: remote sensing of solar and thermospheric EUV radiations", Proc. SPIE 2282, Ultraviolet Technology V, (14 September 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.186609

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