On Tethered Satellite System Current Enhancement
Abstract
Improvements of investigations on the Tethered Satellite System (TSS)-1R electron current enhancement due to magnetic limited collections are reported. 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.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- December 2023
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.2312.10575
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2312.10575
- Bibcode:
- 2023arXiv231210575C
- Keywords:
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- Physics - Space Physics
- E-Print:
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