title: A method for estimating the bremsstrahlung dose into spacecraft from incident electrons.
abstract: An approximate procedure is proposed for finding the dose from radiation belt electron-induced bremsstrahlung inside spacecraft. A good agreement (to within 10%) with the direct three-dimensional Monte-Carlo calculation is attained when the spacecraft material is homogenized. If a homogeneous slab of material is used to estimate absorbed dose inside a spacecraft, the resultant estimate proves to be up to five times as low as the result obtained using a randomly inhomogeneous distribution of spacecraft material for an electron spectrum in a geosynchronous orbit.
authors.affiliation: Research Center of Spacecraft Radiation Safety, Moscow, Russia.
authors.forename: V M
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Sakcharov
mesh_terms: D004583:Electrons; D005118:Extraterrestrial Environment; D005720:Gamma Rays; D020450:Heavy Ions; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009010:Monte Carlo Method; D011522:Protons; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D012984:Software; D013026:Space Flight; D018531:Spacecraft
chemical_list: D011522:Protons