Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Langer, W. D.
• Cohen, S. A.
• Manos, D. M.
• Motley, R. W.
• Ono, M.
• Paul, S. F.
• Roberts, D.
• Selberg, H.

Titel

Detection of surface glow related to spacecraft glow phenomena

Ist Teil von

• Geophysical research letters, 1986-04, Vol.13 (4), p.377-380

Ort / Verlag

Legacy CDMS: Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

1986

Quelle

Wiley-Blackwell Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• A source of low energy neutral atoms and molecules has been developed by using a biased limiter to scrape off and reflect neutralized ions from a toroidal plasma. Beams of nitrogen and nitrogen-oxygen mixtures with energies of 1 to 15 eV and fluxes greater than about 10 to the 14 per centimeter per second were directed onto target surfaces consisting of Z-302 and Z-306 paints. With the nitrogen beams, a glow due to beam-surface interactions was successfully detected. In addition, a volume glow effect due to beam-gas interactions was observed which may play a role in spacecraft glow.