Electronic Resource
[S.l.]
:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Review of Scientific Instruments
62 (1991), S. 1353-1355
ISSN:
1089-7623
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
,
Electrical Engineering, Measurement and Control Technology
Notes:
We have developed a high-speed method to compress the two-dimensional angular distribution of space particles gathered by space plasma instrumentation into the pitch angle distribution, where the pitch angle is polar angle with respect to the ambient magnetic field. The pitch angle sorter can handle rates of up to 2 MHz and it is designed to accommodate high angular resolution plasma analyzers that are placed on a rotating spacecraft. This compression is achieved by relying on digitally encoded lookup tables to eliminate all arithmetic operations while applying the high symmetry of this compression to reduce the amount of digital memory.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1142498
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