Articles | Volume 15, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-15-1-1997
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-15-1-1997
31 Jan 1997
31 Jan 1997

The LION instrument on SOHO and its scientific objectives

S. M. P. McKenna-Lawlor, I. Elendt, P. Rusznyak, H. Kunow, R. Müller-Mellin, and M. Witte

Abstract. A technical description is presented of the low-energy 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).