Chapter 5: Inflight Performance

  

Figure 5.1 Variation of the background excess over the values in Table 5.8 with latitude for all the main rate channels. The shaded area indicates the range of latitudes over which the low-speed solar wind disappeared.

 

 

 

Figure 5.2 Preliminary attempts to fit a latitude-dependent background level to the P7, P2, and DE2 channels. The fits are of the form background rate = c - a × 10-5 (90 - |L|)2 with the parameters a and c as given on the plots. The arrows to the right of the plots indicate the approximate change of background level across the plot.

 

 

 

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