ISEE-1 and ISEE-2 Fast Plasma Experiment and the ISEE-1 Solar Wind Experiment

Author

Bame, S.J. ; Asbridge, J.R. ; Felthauser, H.E. ; Glore, J.P. ; Paschmann, G. ; Hemmerich, P. ; Lehmann, K. ; Rosenbauer, H.

Author_Institution

Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, University of California, Los Alamos, NM 87545

Volume

16

Issue

3

fYear

1978

fDate

7/1/1978 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

216

Lastpage

220

Abstract

Identical fast plasma experiment (FPE) systems were placed on the ISEE-1 and ISEE-2 spacecraft. The FPE consists of three high efficiency 90Â° spherical section electrostatic analyzers using large secondary emitters and discrete dynode multipliers to detect analyzed particles. Two of them, viewing in opposite directions, produce complete 2D velocity distribution measurements of both protons and electrons every spacecraft revolution. A third FPE analyzer with a divided emitter measures 3D distributions at a slower rate. ISEE-1 also carries a solar-wind experiment (SWE) to measure solar-wind ions with high resolution. The SWE is composed of two 150Â° spherical section analyzers using the same set of plates. The two acceptance fans are tilted with respect to each other so that 3D characteristics of the ion distributions can be derived.

Keywords

Electrons; Electrostatic analysis; Electrostatic measurements; Laboratories; Magnetosphere; Plasma measurements; Plasma properties; Space vehicles; Subcontracting; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Geoscience Electronics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9413

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TGE.1978.294550

Filename

4071921