EXPLORER 31 TOTAL CURRENT MONITOR EXPERIMENTS

被引：7

作者：

MAIER, EJR

机构：

[1] Laboratory for Space Sciences, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.

来源：

PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE | 1969年 / 57卷 / 06期

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D O I：

10.1109/PROC.1969.7156

中图分类号：

TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];

学科分类号：

0808 ; 0809 ;

摘要：

Measurements have been made of the suprathermal electron flux by means of retarding potential analyzers on Explorer XXXI. Samples of various types of data are presented and some of the analysis procedures are discussed. Detailed analyses of particle flux measurements obtained in the energy range 7 eV to 200 eV are presented for the data from three spacecraft transits of the polar region. The integral flux and derived differential velocity distributions yield the result that in the polar trough region there is an enhanced energy density of the suprathermal particles with a value comparable to that of the ambient thermal plasma. At lower latitudes, the pressure of suprathermal particles is significantly less than that of the thermal plasma. Copyright © 1969 by The Inshtute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

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