Berg, R.
, Tarrio, C.
, Eparvier, F.
and Jones, A.
(2023),
Oxidation caused by water outgassed from the thermal blanket on the SDO spacecraft, Solar Physics, [online], https://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-023-02148-z, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=935771
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Oxidation caused by water outgassed from the thermal blanket on the SDO spacecraft
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, , FRANCIS EPARVIER, ANDREW JONES
Abstract
The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is a sun-observing spacecraft that includes two spectrometers that use aluminum membranes to filter solar radiation. The transmission of those filters degraded by a factor of 5 during the first five years after launch. Previously, we showed that that degradation was comparable to that induced in the laboratory by UV synchrotron radiation on similar aluminum filters. Here, we show that a physics-based model fit to the results of our synchrotron exposures can quantitatively describe the SDO degradation if the water vapor pressure pH2O on the SDO is allowed to be a free parameter. The fitted value of pH2O for both spectrometers, approximately 10-8 mbar, is consistent with the flux of outgassed water estimated for the thermal blankets on SDO.Citation
Solar Physics
Volume
298
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Journals
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Keywords
water outgassing, aluminum oxidation, ultraviolet, Solar Dynamics Observatory, extreme ultraviolet, EUV
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Created June 23, 2023, Updated April 12, 2024