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Plasma heating, electric fields and plasma flow by electron beam ionospheric injectionThe electric fields and the floating potentials of a Plasma Diagnostics Payload (PDP) located near a powerful electron beam injected from a large sounding rocket into the auroral zone ionosphere have been studied. As the PDP drifted away from the beam laterally, it surveyed a region of hot plasma extending nearly to 60 m radius. Large polarization electric fields transverse to B were imbedded in this hot plasma, which displayed large ELF wave variations and also an average pattern which has led to a model of the plasma flow about the negative line potential of the beam resembling a hydrodynamic vortex in a uniform flow field. Most of the present results are derived from the ECHO 6 sounding rocket mission.
Document ID
19900031715
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Winckler, J. R.
(Minnesota Univ. Minneapolis, MN, United States)
Erickson, K. N.
(Minnesota, University Minneapolis, United States)
Date Acquired
August 14, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1990
Publication Information
Publication: Advances in Space Research
Volume: 10
Issue: 7 19
ISSN: 0273-1177
Subject Category
Geophysics
Accession Number
90A18770
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NSG-5088
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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