High-level spacecraft charging in the low-altitude polar auroral environment

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Nov 1985

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Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 90, Nov. 1, 1985, p. 11,009-11,023.

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Auroral Zones, Polar Regions, Space Plasmas, Spacecraft Charging, Dmsp Satellites, Electron Distribution, High Energy Electrons, Ion Density (Concentration), Plasma Density, Spacecraft Instruments

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Regions of intense keV electron precipitation, such as inverted-V structures, at times colocate with ionospheric plasma depletion regions in the high-latitude polar ionosphere. When Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) F6 and F7 satellites, at 840 km, enter these regions in darkness, ion signatures of high spacecraft-to-ambient plasma potential differences (several hundred volts negative) are observed with the new SSJ/4 ion detectors. A systematic survey of charging events and the environment in which they occur was made using the DMSP F6 and F7 precipitating ion and electron detectors, the SSIE thermal plasma probes, and the SSM (F7 only) vector magnetometer. The charging events of November 26, 1983, are analyzed in detail since they occurred on both satellites. Critical levels of number flux and average energy for the precipitating electrons, and the threshold density of the thermal ionospheric ions are defined for different levels of spacecraft charging.

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