Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8055719 | Acta Astronautica | 2018 | 9 Pages |
Abstract
Deep space missions such as the planned 2025 mission to asteroids require spacecraft shields to protect electronics and humans from adverse effects caused by the space radiation environment, primarily Galactic Cosmic Rays. This paper first reviews the theory on how these rays of charged particles interact with matter, and then presents a simulation for a 500 day Mars flyby mission using a deterministic based computer code. High density polyethylene and aluminum shielding materials at a solar minimum are considered. Plots of effective dose with varying shield depth, charged particle flux, and dose in silicon and human tissue behind shielding are presented.
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Authors
Joseph Barthel, Nesrin Sarigul-Klijn,