Title :
ISEE-C Solar Wind Plasma Experiment
Author :
Bame, S.J. ; Asbridge, J.R. ; Felthauser, H.E. ; Glore, J.P. ; Hawk, H.L. ; Chavez, J.
Author_Institution :
University of California, Los Alamos Scientiflc Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545
fDate :
7/1/1978 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Two 135° spherical section electrostatic analyzers furnish electron and ion measurements of the solar wind on ISEE-C. Each of these instruments utilizes a divided secondary emitter system to intercept the analyzed particles. Secondary electrons selected from all of the emitters simultaneously provide fast two-dimensional measurements of the particle fluxes integrated over polar angle; at a slower rate secondary electrons are successively selected from individual emitters to provide three-dimensional measurements. Speed of the ion measurements is increased by a factor of two by using an active proton peak tracking system to reduce the total range of energy per charge which has to be covered.
Keywords :
Charge measurement; Current measurement; Electron emission; Electrostatic analysis; Electrostatic measurements; Energy measurement; Instruments; Particle measurements; Plasma measurements; Velocity measurement;
Journal_Title :
Geoscience Electronics, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TGE.1978.294538
