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A new basic effect in retarding potential analyzers
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Sanmartín Losada, Juan Ramón and López-Rebollal, Óscar (2000). A new basic effect in retarding potential analyzers. "Physics of Plasmas", v. 7 (n. 11); pp. 4699-4706. ISSN 1070-664X.
Description
| Title: | A new basic effect in retarding potential analyzers |
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| Item Type: | Article |
| Título de Revista/Publicación: | Physics of Plasmas |
| Date: | 2000 |
| ISSN: | 1070-664X |
| Volume: | 7 |
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| Faculty: | E.T.S.I. Aeronáuticos (UPM) |
| Department: | Física Aplicada a la Ingeniería Aeronáutica [hasta 2014] |
| Creative Commons Licenses: | Recognition - No derivative works - Non commercial |
Abstract
The Retarding Potential Analyzer (RPA) is the standard instrument for in situ measurement of ion temperature and other ionospheric parameters. The fraction of incoming ions rejected by a RPA produces perturbations that reach well ahead of a thin Debye sheath, a feature common to all collisionless, hypersonic flows past ion-rejecting bodies. This phenomenon is here found to result in a correction to Whipple’s classical law for the current characteristic of an ideal RPA sheath thin; inverse ram ion Mach number M-1, and ram angle of RPA aperture u, small or moderately small.
More information
| Item ID: | 21653 |
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| DC Identifier: | https://oa.upm.es/21653/ |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:oa.upm.es:21653 |
| Deposited by: | Biblioteca ETSI Aeronauticos |
| Deposited on: | 20 Nov 2013 10:16 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Apr 2016 12:22 |
