1207.5597 (Benoît Horeau et al.)

Impacts of The Radiation Environment At L2 On Bolometers Onboard The Herschel Space Observatory    [PDF]

Benoît Horeau, Olivier Boulade, Arnaud Claret, Helmut Feuchtgruber, Koryo Okumura, Pasquale Panuzzo, Andrea Papageorgiou, Vincent Revéret, Louis Rodriguez, Marc Sauvage

We present the effects of cosmic rays on the detectors onboard the Herschel satellite. We describe in particular the glitches observed on the two types of cryogenic far- infrared bolometer inside the two instruments PACS and SPIRE. The glitch rates are also reported since the launch together with the SREM radiation monitors aboard Herschel and Planck spacecrafts. Both have been injected around the Lagrangian point L2 on May 2009. This allows probing the radiation environment around this orbit. The impacts on the observation are finally summarized.

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