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The LION instrument on SOHO and its scientific objectives

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Annales Geophysicae

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A technical description is presented of the lowenergy ion and electron (LION) instrument on the SOHO spacecraft and its scientific goals are discussed. LION forms part of the comprehensive suprathermal and energetic particle analyzer (COSTEP), which is, in turn, a subset of the COSTEP/ERNE particle analyser collaboration (CEPAC).

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  1. Experimental Physics Department, St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, Ireland

    S. M. P. McKenna-Lawlor & I. Elendt

  2. Space Technology Ireland, St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, Ireland

    S. M. P. McKenna-Lawlor & P. Rusznyak

  3. Institut für Reine und Angewandte Kernphysik, Universitat Kiel, Germany

    H. Kunow & R. Müller-Mellin

  4. Max Planck Institut für Aeronomie, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany

    M. Witte

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McKenna-Lawlor, S.M.P., Elendt, I., Rusznyak, P. et al. The LION instrument on SOHO and its scientific objectives. Annales Geophysicae 15, 1–4 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00585-997-0001-x

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