Controlled experiment in the ionosphere with a rocket-borne plasma gun |
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| Authors: | Nobuki Kawashima Susumu Sasaki Osamu Kaneko Akira Yamori Ryo Okamura Shoichi Okamura |
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| Institution: | Institute of Space and Aeronautical Science, University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan |
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| Abstract: | A controlled active experiment was performed by a plasma gun on-board a rocket to study the plasma stream across the magnetic field in space. A mother and daughter system was employed. An 8 kV 0.8 μF (25 J) capacitor bank on the daughter rocket was discharged every 12 s and about 1016 ion and electron pairs were ejected. A plasma signal was detected on the electron temperature probe. The propagation speed of the plasma stream is estimated to be 106 cm/s, considerably lower than that obtained in the prelaunch test. The amplitude of the plasma signal decays as the inverse square of the mutual distance between the mother and daughter rockets and this decay is much slower than the free streaming. The importance of the geomagnetic field on the plasma propagation in space is discussed. |
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