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Neutron monitors are ground-based devices to measure the variation of cosmic ray intensities. The instrument is a counter designed to detect nucleonic components of cascades initiated by primary cosmic particles in the atmosphere.

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ManufacturerNorthwest University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
Model
Serial No.n/a
Typesmall scale facility
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Name Institution Role
Bernd HeberChristian-Albrechts-University Kiel (Department of Physics, Extraterrestrial Physics)Principal Investigator


Components

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The system consitis of two sensor units with corresponding AD electronics, a GPS time and position synchronization and a Laptop for data analysis and storage. The system is described in Krüger et al. (2003, 2008, 2010, see: Documentation).

Position

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Infono xyz-position given, device located in A112
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Data logging, storage and archiving

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Parameter Sensor O2ARegistry Output Type Unit
amount of cosmic particlesamountnumber

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Time synchronising is regulated via GPS.
Geographical ship's position via GPS.

Rawdata storage on board

Raw data (are stored on the laptop (/home/Muonic/Yearday_min.txt) and on the cards of each sensor unit.
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Data

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Data archiving on land

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Data are archived in the institutes electronic archive and at DESY.
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|| File format(s) | ASCII || 
|| Calibration certificates | NO ||

Documentation

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