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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ftleibnizopen:oai:oai.leibnizopen.de:nfVD-IYBdbrxVwz6Ls-b 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 https://doi.org/10.34657/1606 https://oa.tib.eu/renate/handle/123456789/4029 eng eng München : European Geopyhsical Union CC BY 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Annales Geophysicae, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 187-196 Ionosphere (Instruments and techniques) Space plasma physics (Numerical simulation studies Spacecraft sheaths wakes charging) 530 article Text 2013 ftleibnizopen https://doi.org/10.34657/1606 2023-03-20T00:29:14Z 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. publishedVersion Article in Journal/Newspaper Andøya LeibnizOpen (The Leibniz Association) Andøya ENVELOPE(13.982,13.982,68.185,68.185) Langmuir ENVELOPE(-67.150,-67.150,-66.967,-66.967) |
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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. publishedVersion |
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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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payload charging events in the mesosphere and their impact on langmuir type electric probes |
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München : European Geopyhsical Union |
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2013 |
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Annales Geophysicae, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 187-196 |
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