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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Published in:Annales Geophysicae
Main Authors: T. A. Bekkeng, A. Barjatya, U.-P. Hoppe, A. Pedersen, J. I. Moen, M. Friedrich, M. Rapp
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Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2013
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spelling ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:d67d2d46330642c28eee4ad6ac7c29c0 2023-05-15T13:25:39+02:00 Payload charging events in the mesosphere and their impact on Langmuir type electric probes T. A. Bekkeng A. Barjatya U.-P. Hoppe A. Pedersen J. I. Moen M. Friedrich M. Rapp 2013-02-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-31-187-2013 https://doaj.org/article/d67d2d46330642c28eee4ad6ac7c29c0 EN eng Copernicus Publications https://www.ann-geophys.net/31/187/2013/angeo-31-187-2013.pdf https://doaj.org/toc/0992-7689 https://doaj.org/toc/1432-0576 doi:10.5194/angeo-31-187-2013 0992-7689 1432-0576 https://doaj.org/article/d67d2d46330642c28eee4ad6ac7c29c0 Annales Geophysicae, Vol 31, Pp 187-196 (2013) Science Q Physics QC1-999 Geophysics. Cosmic physics QC801-809 article 2013 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-31-187-2013 2022-12-31T02:04:52Z 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. Article in Journal/Newspaper Andøya Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles 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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Payload charging events in the mesosphere and their impact on Langmuir type electric probes
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description 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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author T. A. Bekkeng
A. Barjatya
U.-P. Hoppe
A. Pedersen
J. I. Moen
M. Friedrich
M. Rapp
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A. Barjatya
U.-P. Hoppe
A. Pedersen
J. I. Moen
M. Friedrich
M. Rapp
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title Payload charging events in the mesosphere and their impact on Langmuir type electric probes
title_short Payload charging events in the mesosphere and their impact on Langmuir type electric probes
title_full Payload charging events in the mesosphere and their impact on Langmuir type electric probes
title_fullStr Payload charging events in the mesosphere and their impact on Langmuir type electric probes
title_full_unstemmed Payload charging events in the mesosphere and their impact on Langmuir type electric probes
title_sort payload charging events in the mesosphere and their impact on langmuir type electric probes
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