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HiCal 2: An instrument designed for calibration of the ANITA experiment and for Antarctic surface reflectivity measurements

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2019
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Prohira, S.
Ratzlaff, K.
Stockham, J.
Stockham, M.
Novikov, A.
Besson, D. Z.
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Организационные подразделения
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Институт ядерной физики и технологий
Цель ИЯФиТ и стратегия развития - создание и развитие научно-образовательного центра мирового уровня в области ядерной физики и технологий, радиационного материаловедения, физики элементарных частиц, астрофизики и космофизики.
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© 2018 The NASA supported High-Altitude Calibration (HiCal)-2 instrument flew as a companion balloon to the ANITA-4 experiment in December 2016. Based on a high-voltage (HV) discharge pulser producing radio-frequency (RF) calibration pulses, HiCal-2 comprised two payloads, which flew for a combined 18 days, covering 1.5 revolutions of the Antarctic continent. ANITA-4 captured over 10,000 pulses from HiCal-2, both direct and reflected from the surface, at distances varying from 100–700 km, providing a large dataset for surface reflectivity measurements. Herein we present details on the design, construction and performance of HiCal-2.
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HiCal 2: An instrument designed for calibration of the ANITA experiment and for Antarctic surface reflectivity measurements / Prohira, S. [et al.] // Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. - 2019. - 918. - P. 60-66. - 10.1016/j.nima.2018.11.092
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