Sentences with phrase «particle radiation damage»
We simulate a CCD readout with CTI such as that caused by charged particle radiation damage.
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The space environment poses significant risks to both humans and satellites due to harmful radiation from galactic cosmic rays and solar energetic particles that can easily penetrate typical shielding and damage electronics.
The detector developed at UNH, known as DoSEN, short for Dose Spectra from Energetic Particles and Neutrons, measures and calculates the absorbed dose in matter and tissue resulting from the exposure to indirect and direct ionizing radiation, which can change cells at the atomic level and lead to irreparable damage.
Within our solar system, the sun's wind of charged particles and radiation forms a bubble called the heliosphere, which repels cosmic rays that can affect Earth's weather, eat away at the ozone layer and damage DNA.
If the particle travels fast enough, its impact appears to create electromagnetic radiation (in the form of radio waves) that can damage or even disable the craft's electronic systems.
Radiation, or radiation therapy, uses high - energy particles or waves to destroy or damage cancer cells.