An artificial comet experiment

Details An artificial comet experiment An artificial comet experiment

Apr 1982

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1982ncgb.conf..181h&link_type=abstract

IN: Workshop on the Need for Coordinated Ground-Based Observations of Halley's Comet, Paris, France, April 29, 30, 1982, Proceed

Physics

Comets, Ion Injection, Mission Planning, Plasma Interaction Experiment, Solar Wind, Barium, Earth Magnetosphere, International Cooperation, Lithium, Plasma Diagnostics, Satellite Orbits

Scientific paper

The joint U.S., West German and British Active Magnentospheric Particle Tracer Explorers experiment (AMPTE) employs detectors from three different satellites and will involve the injection of plasma into the solar wind. The experimental situation is analogous to that of a comet in that expanding neutral gases (barium and lithium) will interact with the solar wind while they are being ionized. Such cometary coma plasma interaction processes as the trapping of magnetic filed, the stretching of field lines, and the erosion and acceleration of cometary plasma, are expected to occur and to be visible through both remote imaging and in situ plasma diagnostics carried by the three AMPTE satellites.

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