An Improved Electron Pre-Sheath Model for TSS-1R Current Enhancement Computations

Autor: Chunpei Cai
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Aerospace, Vol 4, Iss 1, p 16 (2017)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2226-4310
DOI: 10.3390/aerospace4010016
Popis: This report presents improvements of investigations on the Tethered Satellite System (TSS)-1R electron current enhancement due to magnetic limited collections. New analytical expressions are obtained for the potential and temperature changes across the pre-sheath. The mathematical treatments in this work are more rigorous than one past approach. More experimental measurements collected in the ionosphere during the TSS-1R mission are adopted for validations. The relations developed in this work offer two bounding curves for these data points quite successfully; the average of these two curves is close to the curve-fitting results for the measurements; and an average of 2.95 times larger than the Parker-Murphy theory is revealed. The results indicate that including the pre-sheath analysis is important to compute the electron current enhancement due to magnetic limitations.
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