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Advanced diagnostics for impact-flash spectroscopy on light-gas guns

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SAND2007-0835. Sandia National Laboratories, (March 2007)

Abstract

This s tudy is b est ch arac teriz ed as new te chnology deve lopmen t for i mpl emen ting new senso rs to inve stig ate t he opt ical ch arac teri sti cs of a r apidly e xpanding deb ris c loud resu lt ing fro m hypervelo city im pact r egim es of 7 t o 11 km/ s. Our gas gun s const itu te a uniqu e tes t bed th at m atch ope rat ional condi tions re levant to hyperve loci ty i mpac t encoun tered in s pace engage ments . We have demons tra ted the use of (1) ter ahert z sen sors , (2 ) s il icon d iodes for vis ible reg ime s, (3) germ anium and InGaAs sensor s for the near in frared regi mes , and (4 ) t he Sand ia l igh tning d etec tors which a re s im ila r t o th e s il icon d iodes descr ibed in 2 . The comb inat ion a nd co mple menta ry use of al l t hese te chniques has the st rong po tent ial of “the rma lly” chara cter izing the ti me ­dependen t behav ior o f t he r adia ting debri s c loud. Comple ment ary spec troscop ic me asure ments p rovide t empe rature e st ima tes of t he i mpac t genera ted debr is by fi tt ing it s spec trum to a b lackbody radi ation func tion . Thi s debr is is ti me ­dependent as it s t ranspo rt/ expansion behavio r i s ch anging with t im e. The r apid expans ion behavior of the debris “cools” the cloud rapidly, changing its thermal temperature characteristics with time. A variety of sensors that span over a wide spectrum, varying from visible regime to THz frequencies, now gives us the potential to cover the impact over a broader temporal regime starting from high­ pressures (Mbar) high­ temperatures (eV) to low pressures (mbar) low temperatures (less than room temperature) as the debris expands and cools.

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