Measurement of Low-energy Cosmic-Ray Electron and Positron Spectra at 1 au with the AESOP-Lite Spectrometer

• Main Authors: Mechbal, Sarah, Mangeard, Pierre-Simon, Clem, John M, Evenson, Paul A, Johnson, Robert P, Lucas, Brian, Roth, James
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2020
• Subjects: CRs; CR detectors; Heliosphere; Solar wind; High altitude balloons; astro-ph.HE; astro-ph.IM; astro-ph.SR; physics.ins-det; physics.space-ph; Astronomical and Space Sciences; Atomic; Molecular; Nuclear; Particle and Plasma Physics; Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural); Astronomy & Astrophysics; Canada; Ellesmere Island; Esrange
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8zv384dh

We report on a new measurement of the cosmic ray (CR) electron and positron spectra in the energy range of 20 MeV -- 1 GeV. The data were taken during the first flight of the balloon-borne spectrometer AESOP-Lite (Anti Electron Sub Orbital Payload), which was flown from Esrange, Sweden, to Ellesmere...