Cassini MIMI Investigation at Fundamental Technologies
Numerical Computation of Energy-Dependent Geometric Factors of E and F Electron Detectors of CASSINI/MIMI/LEMMS
Technical Report by Xiaodong Hong and Thomas P. Armstrong, May 10, 1997
Appendix D Program Explanation and Source Code
References
[1] Y. Wu, C. Mckee, and T. P. Armstrong, Galileo EPD Technical Report 86-01, University of Kansas, 1986.
[2} M. McCaig, Permanent Magnets in Theory and Practice, John Wiley and Sons, New York-Toronto, pp. 188-189, 1977.
[3] X. Hong, Effect of Backscattered Electrons on the Geometric Factors of the LEMS30 Telescope, Masters Thesis, Univ. of Kansas, 1995.
[4] J. Buckley, Geometric Factor Study for the Deflected Electrons of HISCALE, the Heliosphere Instrument for Spectrum, Composition and Anisotropy at Low Energies, Masters Thesis, Univ. of Kansas, 1993.
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