Effect of the Magnetic Field on Current Balance Between Two Conductors in Space

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Nov 1998

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Proceedings of the 6th Spacecraft Charging Conference. November 2-6, 1998. AFRL Science Center, Hanscom AFB, MA, USA., p.169-172

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Effects of the magnetic field on the interaction between two spherical conductors in a space plasma is studied. A semi-analytic model is developed and used to investigate the mechanisms by which the flux of ambient electrons and photoelectrons "guided" along the magnetic field lines may strongly affect the current balance between two conductors. Only the particular situation when the system is used as a Langmuir probe to determine the plasma density is studied in more details. The conditions under which the parasitic photo-electron current overcome the ambient plasma current are determined. A critical parameter for this is the temperature of the ambient plasma.

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