Measurements of the time constant for steady ionization in shaped-charge barium releases

Details Measurements of the time constant for steady ionization in shaped-charge barium releases Measurements of the time constant for steady ionization in shaped-charge barium releases

May 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993jgr....98.7765h&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 98, no. A5, p. 7765-7773.

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Barium Ion Clouds, Earth Ionosphere, Earth Magnetosphere, Gas Ionization, Shaped Charges, Time Dependence, Critical Velocity, Ionization Potentials, Television Cameras

Scientific paper

Quantitative measurements of three solar illuminated shaped-charge barium releases injected at small angles to the magnetic field were made using a calibrated color television camera. Two of the releases were from 1989. The third release, a reanalysis of an event included in Hallinan's 1988 study of three 1986 releases, was included to provide continuity between the two studies. Time constants for ionization, measured during the first 25 s of each release, were found to vary considerably. The two 1989 time constants differed substantially, and both were significantly less than any of the 1986 time constants. On the basis of this variability, we conclude that the two 1989 releases showed evidence of continuous nonsolar ionization. One release showed nonsolar ionization which could not he attributed to Alfven's critical ionization velocity process, which requires a component of velocity perpendicular to the magnetic field providing a perpendicular energy greater than the ionization potential.

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