Yield function of the DOSimetry TELescope count and dose rates aboard the International Space Station

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A. S. Caprotti M. Bruedern S. Burmeister B. Heber K. Herbst
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Abstract

The Earth is constantly hit by energetic particles originating from galactic sources. The flux of these particles is altered by the magnetized solar wind in the heliosphere and the Earth's magnetic field. For this reason, the ability of a particle to approach a spacecraft in LEO depends on its energy and the position of the spacecraft within the Earth' magnetosphere. Moreover, there are some areas (radiation belts) where the particles are trapped for a long time, and therefore the flux of energetic particles is particularly high. Occasionally, SEP contribute to the energetic particle flux too. DOSTEL is one of the instruments aboard the \ac{ISS} that monitors the radiation field within the European module Columbus. Because being installed inside the \ac{ISS}, particles produced by the interaction between the "primary" radiation and the ISS materials are also measured. To describe the observations in such a complex radiation field, we follow the method by Caballero-Lopez and Moraal (2012) in order to compute the so-called yield function using precise measurements of the proton and Helium energy spectra obtained by AMS and the systematic variation of the DOSTEL measurements within the Earth's magnetosphere

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