Interaction of an electron beam with the ionospheric plasma in the Elektron-1 active experiment
Abstract
Experimental results are presented on the interaction of a 0.5 A, 6-8 keV electron beam with the ionospheric plasma. The experiment, which was carried out on the MR-12 rocket in October 1989 in the Volgograd area, studied plasma parameters in the vicinity of the rocket. It is found that the electron beam injection results in heating of plasma electrons with an energy of 75 eV and a density of about 10,000 per cu cm. Hot electrons seem to cause beam-plasma discharge and formation of plasma with a density of about 10 exp 6 per cu cm. During beam injection the rocket potential is not greater than +50 V.
- Publication:
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Fizika Plazmy
- Pub Date:
- May 1992
- Bibcode:
- 1992FizPl..18..595B
- Keywords:
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- Beam Injection;
- Earth Ionosphere;
- Electron Beams;
- Hot Electrons;
- Plasma-Particle Interactions;
- Space Plasmas;
- Auroras;
- Plasma Heating;
- Radio Observation;
- Rocket Sounding;
- Geophysics