Spectrometers
The Time-of-flight Energy Angle Mass Spectrograph (TEAMS) instrument on the Fast Auroral SnapshoT Explorer (FAST) is a high sensitivity, mass-resolving ion spectrometer with an instantaneous 360 x 8 deg field of view. It is designed to measure the full 3-dimensional distribution function of the major ion species (including H+, He+, He++, O+, O2+ and NO+) during each half-spin period (2.5 s) of the spacecraft. Its energy range is between 1.2 and 12000 eV/charge and thus covers the core of all important plasma distributions in the auroral acceleration region. The detector consists of a "top hat" toroidal electrostatic analyzer followed by a time-of-flight analysis system and resolves 16 x 22.5 deg azimuthal angle bins." For more information, see: http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/fast/scienceprod/papers/klumpar/Klumpar.pdf and http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/fast/inst.html Group: Instrument_Details Entry_ID: TEAMS Group: Instrument_Identification Instrument_Category: Solar/Space Observing Instruments Instrument_Class: Particle Detectors Short_Name: TEAMS Long_Name: Time of Flight Energy Angle Mass Spectrometer End_Group Group: Associated_Platforms Short_Name: FAST End_Group Online_Resource: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=1996-049A&ex=2 Online_Resource: http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/fast/scienceprod/papers/klumpar/Klumpar.pdf Sample_Image: http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/fast/graphics/teams.gif Group: Instrument_Logistics Instrument_Start_Date: 1996-08-21 Instrument_Owner: University of California, Berkeley Instrument_Owner: Lockheed Instrument_Owner: University of New Hampshire End_Group End_Group
TEAMS