Comparison of Ray-Tracing and Reverse Monte-Carlo Methods: Application to GEO orbit
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Benacquista, Remi; Pourrouquet, Pierre; Varotsou, Athina; Mangeret, Renaud; Barillot, Catherine; Santin, Giovanni; Evans, Hugh
- Source
- 2019 19th European Conference on Radiation and Its Effects on Components and Systems (RADECS) Radiation and Its Effects on Components and Systems (RADECS), 2019 19th European Conference on. :1-5 Sep, 2019
- Subject
- Aerospace
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Nuclear Engineering
Photonics and Electrooptics
Robotics and Control Systems
Signal Processing and Analysis
Space vehicles
Geometry
Monte Carlo methods
Satellites
Europe
Ray tracing
Orbits
FASTRAD
Radiation effects
Ray-Tracing
Reverse Monte-Carlo
Total Ionizing Dose
- Language
- ISSN
- 1609-0438
Ray-Tracing and Reverse Monte-Carlo are the two most widely used methods to estimate the dose at component level for space applications. The Ray-Tracing method is fast but presents intrinsic limitations while the Reverse Monte-Carlo method is more precise but more time consuming. In the frame of the ESA GTREFF project, a statistical comparison between these two methods has been performed, based on realistic satellite models for GEO orbit and using FASTRAD®. Results are presented and analyzed.