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EP: Fachverband Extraterrestrische Physik

EP 4: Poster Session

EP 4.21: Poster

Dienstag, 26. Februar 2013, 11:15–12:45, Poster OG

The Current Status of Development of the Electron and Proton Telescope for Solar Orbiter — •Jan Steinhagen, Shri Kulkarni, Sebastian Boden, Cesar Martin-Garcia, Stephan Böttcher, Björn Schuster, Lars Seimetz, and Robert Wimmer-Schweingruber — IEAP, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

ESA's Solar Orbiter mission, scheduled for launch in January 2017, will study how the sun creates the inner heliosphere. Therefore, the spacecraft will perform in situ and remote sensing measurements of the sun on a high inclination orbit with a perihelion of about 60 solar radii, making it possible to observe the poles of the sun from nearby. The Energetic Particle Detector suite on-board of Solar Orbiter will measure particles of a wide energy range and from multiple directions. One of the important sensors of the EPD suite is the Electron and Proton Telescope. It consists of two antiparallel telescopes with two silicon detectors respectively and is designed to detect electrons between 20 - 400 keV and protons from 20 keV to 7 MeV. EPT relies on a magnet/foil technique to discriminate between electrons and protons. Its design is driven by mass allocation, the thermal environment, power consumption and electronic noise; especially the magnet system must guarantee stray fields low enough to be compliant with the Solar Orbiter EMC requirements. Here, we present the current status of the Structural/Thermal Model and Engineering Model assembly as well as the integration and testing of the prototype.