Recent results from the imagery of Juno’s Stellar Reference Unit

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Heidi Becker ◽  
James Alexander ◽  
Sushil Atreya ◽  
Scott Bolton ◽  
Martin Brennan ◽  
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<p>The Juno Mission has recast its spacecraft engineering star camera as a visible wavelength science imager. Developed and primarily used to support onboard attitude determination, Juno’s Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) has been put to use as an in situ high energy particle detector for profiling Jupiter’s radiation belts and as a low light sensitive camera for exploring multiple phenomena and features of the Jovian system. Juno’s unprecedented polar orbit and closest approach of ~4000 km have yielded high resolution SRU imagery of Jupiter’s lightning and aurorae from as little as 50,000 km from the 1 bar level and unique Jovian dust ring and satellite images. We will present recent SRU results and discuss the implications for Jupiter’s atmosphere that stem from the SRU lightning observations.</p>

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Author(s):  
Wojtek Hajdas ◽  
Radoslaw Marcinkowski ◽  
Hualin Xiao ◽  
Ronny Kramert

<p>The LGR High Energy Particle Spectrometer HEPS for the ESA Lagrange mission belongs to the satellite in-situ instrument suite. The satellite will be placed at the Lagrange point L5 for space weather measurements and real-time observations and alerts. The HEPS instrument with its six detector subsystems will enable the detecting of electrons, protons, and heavy ions at high flux conditions during Solar Energetic Particle Events. The electron and proton detection systems rely on standard telescope techniques covering energy ranges from 100 keV to 15 MeV and 3 MeV to 1 GeV respectively. Two sets of telescopes will be installed facing opposite directions along the Parker spiral. Additional detector with a wide angular range will enable measurements of angular distributions of particles traveling towards the satellite from the Sun. The HEPS heavy-ion telescope HIT represents a new design utilizing a set of scintillators and SiPM light converters. HIT electronics is equipped with a dedicated radiation-tolerant ASIC optimized for low power use and fast signal detections. The first model of HIT was developed and verified for spectroscopic measurements and ion identification. We report on test measurements as well as Monte Carlo simulations of the whole instrument. Results will be discussed and implications on the final design of the instrument provided.</p>


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