Freiburg 2008 – scientific programme

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EP: Fachverband Extraterrestrische Physik

EP 4: The Sun and Heliosphere - Poster Session

EP 4.22: Poster

Monday, March 3, 2008, 17:30–19:00, Vorraum KGI-Aula

RAD/MSL calibration results — •Onno Kortmann, Eckart Böhm, Stephan Böttcher, Sönke Burmeister, César Martin, and Robert F. Wimmer-Schweingruber — Institut für Experimentelle und Angewandte Physik, University of Kiel, Leibnizstraße 11, D-24098 Kiel, Germany

RAD, the radiation assessment detector on NASA´s Mars Science Laboratory rover mission is designed to detect a wide range of different particle species at energies up to 100 MeV/nuc.

Validation of the instrument design as well as calibration has been done with a prototype unit of the RAD sensor head. We present calibration results as well as comparisons with first data taken with flight units during laboratory testing.