Mass spectrometer calibration of high ve
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G. Jyoti; Satish C. Gupta; Thomas J. Ahrens; Dmitri Kossakovski; J.L. Beauchamp
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Article
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1999
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Elsevier Science
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English
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We are calibrating the time of flight mass spectrometer of the Cosmic Dust Analyzer (CDA) instrument aboard the Cassini spacecraft. The CDA measures the flux of particles in the 10 -15 to 10 -9 g range at intersection velocities of up to 100 km/s. Of special interest are the chemical composition of