The Astromag facility

Conference · Tue Mar 20 00:00:00 EST 1990 · AIP Conference Proceedings (American Institute of Physics); (USA)

OSTI ID:6942330

Smoot, G F ^[1]

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1. Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley CA 94720 (USA)

The USA and Italy are planning to place a large superconducting magnet facility, Astromag, on the Space Station Freedom in the late 1990's. Astromag has been designed as primarily a cosmic ray astrophysics facility, but it could also be used for any investigation which can make use of a large volume, high intensity magnetic field in a microgravity or space environment. This paper describes the facility and mentions the first set of astrophysical problems to be investigated.

• OSTI ID: 6942330
• Report Number(s): CONF-8911161--
• Conference Information: Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings (American Institute of Physics); (USA) Journal Volume: 203:1
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

640101* -- Astrophysics & Cosmology-- Cosmic Radiation
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
CHARGED PARTICLES
COSMIC RAY DETECTION
DESIGN
DETECTION
ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT
ELECTROMAGNETS
EQUIPMENT
HEAVY NUCLEI
ISOTOPES
MAGNETIC FIELDS
MAGNETS
NUCLEI
RADIATION DETECTION
SPACE VEHICLES
SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES
SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETS
VEHICLES