DocumentCode
1020970
Title
ISEE-C Solar Wind Plasma Experiment
Author
Bame, S.J. ; Asbridge, J.R. ; Felthauser, H.E. ; Glore, J.P. ; Hawk, H.L. ; Chavez, J.
Author_Institution
University of California, Los Alamos Scientiflc Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545
Volume
16
Issue
3
fYear
1978
fDate
7/1/1978 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
160
Lastpage
162
Abstract
Two 135° spherical section electrostatic analyzers furnish electron and ion measurements of the solar wind on ISEE-C. Each of these instruments utilizes a divided secondary emitter system to intercept the analyzed particles. Secondary electrons selected from all of the emitters simultaneously provide fast two-dimensional measurements of the particle fluxes integrated over polar angle; at a slower rate secondary electrons are successively selected from individual emitters to provide three-dimensional measurements. Speed of the ion measurements is increased by a factor of two by using an active proton peak tracking system to reduce the total range of energy per charge which has to be covered.
Keywords
Charge measurement; Current measurement; Electron emission; Electrostatic analysis; Electrostatic measurements; Energy measurement; Instruments; Particle measurements; Plasma measurements; Velocity measurement;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Geoscience Electronics, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9413
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/TGE.1978.294538
Filename
4071909
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