SA51C-2410
Front-end and high-voltage electronics developments for compact, dual ion-electron thermal measurements
Friday, 18 December 2015
Poster Hall (Moscone South)
Antoine Cara1, Benoit Lavraud1, Helene Tap2, Yohann Ballot3, Claude Aoustin1, Olivier Chassela1, Alexandre Cadu1, Pierre Devoto1, Andrei Fedorov1, Jean Rouzaud1, Jean Rubiella1, Jean-Andre Sauvaud1, Henry-Claude Seran1, Olivier Bernal2, Denis Payan4 and Christian Rouzies4, (1)IRAP, Toulouse, France, (2)ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France, (3)EREMS, Flourens, France, (4)CNES, Toulouse, France
Abstract:
The Active Monitor Box of Electrostatic Risks (AMBER) is a double-head thermal electron and ion electrostatic analyzer (~0 – 30 keV) that will be launched onboard the Jason-3 spacecraft in 2015. The new generation AMBRE instrument (AMBER_NG) constitutes a significant new evolution that will be based on a single head with newly developed sub-systems to reduce all instrument resources. We will describe the main front-end and high-voltage electronics developments which are being made to perform such dual ion-electron measurements. The first purpose of AMBER_NG is the monitoring of spacecraft charging and of the plasma populations at the origin of this charging. The design is also appropriate for the study of space plasma processes in the Earth’s magnetosphere, as well as at other planets where time resolution may not prevail over mass constraints.
