Investigation of the operation of a d.c. electric field detector

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Nov 1970

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Planetary and Space Science, Volume 18, Issue 11, p. 1551-1561.

Physics

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Double Langmuir probe detector systems have been flown successfully on three rockets in the past two years to measure quasi-static and a.c. electric fields in the auroral zone ionosphere. Diagnostic tests and redundancy features associated with these experiments are investigated to show that the instruments performed as expected theoretically and that d.c. electric fields with typical magnitudes of 20-40 mV/m have been measured with 10-20 per cent accuracy. Uncertainties of the measurement that are considered include sheath potential and sheath resistance effects, photoemission, energetic particle currents, wake effects, asymmetries from the presence of the booms and the rocket body, contact potentials, and the subtraction of ν × B from the rocket data to obtain electric fields in an Earth-fixed frame of reference.

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