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Please note: The system works autonomously and needs minimum attention. Scientific co-use by Desy Zeuthen. Data transfer once per day.

Summary

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.

Manufacturer Northwest University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
Model
Serial No. n/a
Type small scale facility

Contacts

Name Institution Role
Bernd Heber Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel (Department of Physics, Extraterrestrial Physics) Principal Investigator
polarstern dship Alfred-Wegener-Institute dship connector

Components

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

Origin Description:no xyz-position given, device located in A112

Data logging, storage and archiving

Logged parameters

Parameter Sensor Output Type Unit
amount of cosmic particles amount number

Central geographical ship's position and time standard

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.
Data volume ca 1 MB (ca 3 files) per day.

Data archiving on land

Data are archived in the institutes electronic archive and at DESY.

File format(s)

ASCII

Calibration certificates

NO

Documentation



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