A novel rocket-borne ion mass spectrometer with large mass range: instrument description and first-flight results

• Main Authors: Stude, Joan, Aufmhoff, Heinfried, Schlager, Hans, Rapp, Markus, Arnold, Frank, Strelnikov, Boris
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Katlenburg-Lindau : European Geosciences Union 2021
• Subjects: instrumentation; long range transport; mass spectrometry; measurement method; Hesperis; 550; Andøya; Arctic; Arctic Island; Norway
• Online Access: https://oa.tib.eu/renate/handle/123456789/8245; https://doi.org/10.34657/7283

We present a novel rocket-borne ion mass spectrometer named ROMARA (ROcket-borne MAss spectrometer for Research in the Atmosphere) for measuring atmospheric positive and negative ions (atomic, molecular and cluster ions) and positively and negatively charged meteor smoke particles. Our ROMARA instru...