Plasma probing by active wave experiments on the Viking satellite

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Aug 1987

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987angeo...5..181d&link_type=abstract

(European Geophysical Society, Symposium on Auroral Dynamics, Kiel, West Germany, Aug. 21-30, 1986) Annales Geophysicae, Series

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Plasma Probes, Satellite Sounding, Space Plasmas, Viking Spacecraft, Earth Magnetosphere, High Temperature Plasmas, Plasma Density, Plasma Temperature, Plasmapause, Polar Caps

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The results of two active wave experiments (a resonance sounder and a mutual impedance device) on the Viking satellite concerning the density and temperature of the plasma in the outer plasmasphere and the polar cap are discussed. The high-altitude polar satellite experiments measure electron density when Ne is less than 3/cu cm and temperature, for Maxwellian populations, when Te (eV) is less than 0.15 Ne. The data have application to the study of the polar and auroral regions as a source of thermal plasma, and to the study of outer plasmasphere phenomena such as plasmasphere refilling or oxygen torus formation.

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