A reassessment of Galileo radiation exposures in the Jupiter magnetosphere
1 The Boeing Company, NASA Systems, Houston, TX 77058, USA
2 Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
* Corresponding author: bigshot{at}houston.rr.com
Earlier particle experiments in the 1970s on Pioneer-10 and –11 and Voyager-1 and -2 provided Jupiter flyby particle data, which were used by Divine and Garrett to develop the first Jupiter trapped radiation environment model. This model was used to establish a baseline radiation effects design limit for the Galileo onboard electronics. Recently, Garrett et al. have developed an updated Galileo Interim Radiation Environment (GIRE) model based on Galileo electron data. In this paper, we have used the GIRE model to reassess the computed radiation exposures and dose effects for Galileo. The 34-orbit ‘as flown’ Galileo trajectory data and the updated GIRE model were used to compute the electron and proton spectra for each of the 34 orbits. The total ionisation doses of electrons and protons have been computed based on a parametric shielding configuration, and these results are compared with previously published results.