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Instrumentation for particle and high-energy photon measurements in space must provide high levels of performance while meeting the severe constraints imposed by flight. Direct measurements are required spanning over 13 decades in energy and covering species ranging from photons to the heaviest nuclei in the periodic table. Indirect measurements increase the energy range by another five decades. Many of the detection techniques used are shared with accelerator instruments and other ground-based applications, but the implementation is often unique to space. This chapter sets the context for the required measurements and reviews representative instruments for direct measurements of photons and particles from 100 eV to 1015 eV and indirect measurements to over 1020 eV.
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Mitchell, J.W., Hams, T. (2021). Astrophysics and Space Instrumentation. In: Fleck, I., Titov, M., Grupen, C., Buvat, I. (eds) Handbook of Particle Detection and Imaging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93785-4_23
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