Neutral solar wind experiment.
Abstract
The instrumentation and procedures for a proposed space experiment to study the interactions of neutral particles in the solar-wind plasma are discussed. The high-energy atoms in question are to be detected via the effects of neutral-particle interaction with surfaces, producing secondary electron emission; the significant EUV background noise is taken into account by applying a coincidence technique based on ultrathin foils and time-of-flight measurements by microchannel-plate detectors. The experiment is planned as part of the Relict-2 mission (scheduled launch 1993), in which the spacecraft will perform two revolutions about the L2 collinear libration point of the earth-sun system.
- Publication:
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Physics of the Outer Heliosphere
- Pub Date:
- 1990
- Bibcode:
- 1990phoh.coll..355G
- Keywords:
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- Interstellar Matter;
- Neutral Gases;
- Plasma Interactions;
- Solar Wind;
- Background Radiation;
- Charge Exchange;
- Electron Emission;
- Extreme Ultraviolet Radiation;
- Hydrogen;
- Spaceborne Experiments;
- Astrophysics;
- Solar Wind: Interstellar Matter;
- Solar Wind: Heliosphere