First results from the energetic particle instrument on the OEDIPUS-C sounding rocket
| Autor: | Michael Paul Gough, H.G. James, D.A. Hardy |
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| Rok vydání: | 1998 |
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Physics
Atmospheric Science Range (particle radiation) Sounding rocket business.product_category Meteorology Transmitter Aerospace Engineering Astronomy and Astrophysics Electron Computational physics Depth sounding Geophysics Rocket Space and Planetary Science Harmonic General Earth and Planetary Sciences Ionosphere business |
| Zdroj: | Advances in Space Research. 21:705-708 |
| ISSN: | 0273-1177 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/s0273-1177(97)01008-9 |
| Popis: | The Canadian / US OEDIPUS-C rocket was flown form the Poker Flat Rocket Range November 6th 1995 as a mother-son sounding rocket. It was designed to study auroral ionospheric plasma physics using active wave sounding and prove tether technology. The payload separated into two sections reaching a separation of 1200m along the Earth's magnetic field. One section included a frequency stepped HF transmitter and the other included a synchronised HF receiver. Both sections included Energetic Particle Instruments, EPI, stepped in energy synchronously with the transmitter steps. On-board EPI particle processing in both payloads provided direct measurements of electron heating, wave-particle interactions via particle correlators, and a high resolution measurement of wave induced particle heating via transmitter synchronised fast sampling. Strong electron heating was observed at times when the HF transmitter frequency was equal to a harmonic of the electron gyrofrequency, f ce , or equal to the upper hybrid frequency, f uh . |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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