Physics – Plasma Physics
Scientific paper
Oct 1998
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998georl..25.3721m&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 25, Issue 19, p. 3721-3724
Physics
Plasma Physics
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Interplanetary Physics: Interplanetary Magnetic Fields, Interplanetary Physics: Pickup Ions, Interplanetary Physics: Mhd Waves And Turbulence, Space Plasma Physics: Wave/Particle Interactions
Scientific paper
Pioneer 10 magnetic field measurements, believed to include waves associated with the pick-up of interstellar hydrogen atoms, have been further analyzed. Power spectra and waveform data reveal that the signals previously interpreted as waves are an artifact. They resulted from a very low telemetry/sampling rate, associated with the large distance of Pioneer 10 from Earth, which caused aliasing of a sinusoidal signal at the spacecraft spin frequency to a low frequency just above the proton gyrofrequency. Thus the Pioneer 10 plasma analyzer evidence for interstellar pickup ions must be considered separately from the magnetometer data: The validity of the plasma measurements is not affected by this data artifact.
Intriligator Devrie S.
Murphy Neil
Smith Edward. J.
Wolf Joyce
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