Payload charging events in the mesosphere and their impact on Langmuir type electric probes
Three sounding rockets were launched from Andøya Rocket Range in the ECOMA campaign in December 2010. The aim was to study the evolution of meteoric smoke particles during a major meteor shower. Of the various instruments onboard the rocket payload, this paper presents the data from a multi-Needle L...
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ftdlr:oai:elib.dlr.de:81628 2023-05-15T13:25:39+02:00 Payload charging events in the mesosphere and their impact on Langmuir type electric probes Bekkeng, T.-A. Barjatya, A. Hoppe, U.-P. Pedersen, A. Moen, J. I. Friedrich, M. Rapp, M. 2013 application/pdf http://elib.dlr.de/81628/ http://elib.dlr.de/81628/1/angeo-31-187-2013.pdf http://www.ann-geophys.net/31/187/2013/ en eng Copernicus Publications http://elib.dlr.de/81628/1/angeo-31-187-2013.pdf Bekkeng, T.-A. und Barjatya, A. und Hoppe, U.-P. und Pedersen, A. und Moen, J. I. und Friedrich, M. und Rapp, M. (2013) Payload charging events in the mesosphere and their impact on Langmuir type electric probes. Annales Geophysicae, 31, Seiten 187-196. Copernicus Publications. DOI:10.5194/angeo-31-187-2013 ISSN 0992-7689 Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre Zeitschriftenbeitrag PeerReviewed 2013 ftdlr https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-31-187-2013 2018-03-11T23:51:00Z Three sounding rockets were launched from Andøya Rocket Range in the ECOMA campaign in December 2010. The aim was to study the evolution of meteoric smoke particles during a major meteor shower. Of the various instruments onboard the rocket payload, this paper presents the data from a multi-Needle Langmuir Probe (m-NLP) and a charged dust detector. The payload floating potential, as observed using the m-NLP instrument, shows charging events on two of the three flights. These charging events cannot be explained using a simple charging model, and have implications towards the use of fixed bias Langmuir probes on sounding rockets investigating mesospheric altitudes. We show that for a reliable use of a single fixed bias Langmuir probe as a high spatial resolution relative density measurement, each payload should also carry an additional instrument to measure payload floating potential, and an instrument that is immune to spacecraft charging and measures absolute plasma density. Other Non-Article Part of Journal/Newspaper Andøya German Aerospace Center: elib - DLR electronic library Andøya ENVELOPE(13.982,13.982,68.185,68.185) Langmuir ENVELOPE(-67.150,-67.150,-66.967,-66.967) Annales Geophysicae 31 2 187 196 |
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Three sounding rockets were launched from Andøya Rocket Range in the ECOMA campaign in December 2010. The aim was to study the evolution of meteoric smoke particles during a major meteor shower. Of the various instruments onboard the rocket payload, this paper presents the data from a multi-Needle Langmuir Probe (m-NLP) and a charged dust detector. The payload floating potential, as observed using the m-NLP instrument, shows charging events on two of the three flights. These charging events cannot be explained using a simple charging model, and have implications towards the use of fixed bias Langmuir probes on sounding rockets investigating mesospheric altitudes. We show that for a reliable use of a single fixed bias Langmuir probe as a high spatial resolution relative density measurement, each payload should also carry an additional instrument to measure payload floating potential, and an instrument that is immune to spacecraft charging and measures absolute plasma density. |
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Bekkeng, T.-A. Barjatya, A. Hoppe, U.-P. Pedersen, A. Moen, J. I. Friedrich, M. Rapp, M. |
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Bekkeng, T.-A. Barjatya, A. Hoppe, U.-P. Pedersen, A. Moen, J. I. Friedrich, M. Rapp, M. |
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Payload charging events in the mesosphere and their impact on Langmuir type electric probes |
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Payload charging events in the mesosphere and their impact on Langmuir type electric probes |
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Payload charging events in the mesosphere and their impact on Langmuir type electric probes |
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Payload charging events in the mesosphere and their impact on Langmuir type electric probes |
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payload charging events in the mesosphere and their impact on langmuir type electric probes |
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http://elib.dlr.de/81628/1/angeo-31-187-2013.pdf Bekkeng, T.-A. und Barjatya, A. und Hoppe, U.-P. und Pedersen, A. und Moen, J. I. und Friedrich, M. und Rapp, M. (2013) Payload charging events in the mesosphere and their impact on Langmuir type electric probes. Annales Geophysicae, 31, Seiten 187-196. Copernicus Publications. DOI:10.5194/angeo-31-187-2013 ISSN 0992-7689 |
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