[Crater-team] Link to paper - requires a subscription :-(
Mark D Looper
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Wed Jan 9 15:03:50 EST 2019
Is it not also a matter of shielding, in that the LEO SAA spectrum is falling with energy and thus is comparatively easy to shield against, whereas the interplanetary GCR spectrum rises up to very deeply penetrating energies? What were the assumptions in the paper(s) warning about interplanetary radiation exposure? The plot you sent is for detectors relatively open to space, right?
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From: Crater-team <crater-team-bounces at lists.sr.unh.edu> on behalf of "Zeitlin, Cary J (JSC-SD2)[WYLE LABORATORIES, INC.]" <cary.j.zeitlin at nasa.gov>
Date: Wednesday, January 9, 2019 at 9:51 AM
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Subject: Re: [Crater-team] Link to paper - requires a subscription :-(
Good point! Nuance is completely lost in these things.
OTOH, the exposure isn’t all that different in LEO, as I’ve been learning since we started getting ISS-RAD data. The geomagnetic field is protective, but in terms of dose, the SAA passes more or less undo the protection. So the difference is mostly that the LEO spectrum is more populated at low-LET than deep space, which is an even greater degree of nuance. ☺
From: Harlan Spence <spence at guero.sr.unh.edu>
Date: Wednesday, January 9, 2019 at 11:44 AM
To: "Zeitlin, Cary J (JSC-SD2)[WYLE LABORATORIES, INC.]" <cary.j.zeitlin at nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: [Crater-team] Link to paper - requires a subscription :-(
Hi Cary,
One issue is that the press picked up on this and said that all the prior studies showing that space radiation is a problem is now called into question. So there’s a bit of damage control for those who didn’t understand the nuances between LEO and deep space exposure.
= Harlan
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On Jan 9, 2019, at 2:37 PM, Zeitlin, Cary J (JSC-SD2)[WYLE LABORATORIES, INC.] <cary.j.zeitlin at nasa.gov<mailto:cary.j.zeitlin at nasa.gov>> wrote:
Thanks for the links – I’m glad they did this, even with all the caveats about sample size, etc.
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Subject: [Crater-team] Link to paper - requires a subscription :-(
https://oem.bmj.com/content/early/2018/12/04/oemed-2018-105304
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