Active Magnetospheric Particle Tracing Explorers (AMPTE). Annual letter report, 1 December 1983-30 November 1984

Technical Report · Thu Feb 07 04:00:00 EST 1985

OSTI ID:5903094

Anderson, R R

The primary purposes of the Active Magnetospheric Particle Tracing Explorers (AMPTE) program are (1) to carry out the release and monitoring of lithium and barium ions in the solar wind and within the distant magnetosphere in order to study the access of solar wind ions to the magnetosphere, the convective-diffusive transport and energization of magnetospheric particles, and the instabilities and wave-particle interactions associated with the releases and the subsequent evolution of the injected clouds, and (2) to generate massive releases of barium in the dawn magnetosheath in order to create visible artificial comets in the flowing solar wind plasma within which studies of diamagnetic effects, ionization, momentum exchange, ion transport, and visible phenomena can be made. Complete descriptions of the three spacecraft involved in the AMPTE program, the Charge Composition Explorer (CCE), the Ion Release Module (IRM), and the United Kingdom Subsatellite (UKS) and the experiments on the spacecraft will be included in the May 1985 issue of IEEE Transacations on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. The AMPTE program is a collaborative effort involving the United States, the Federal Republic of Germany, and the United Kingdom.

• Research Organization: Iowa Univ., Iowa City (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5903094
• Report Number(s): AD-A-151072/6/XAB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

640203* -- Atmospheric Physics-- Magnetospheric Phenomena-- (-1987)
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
BARIUM IONS
CHARGED PARTICLES
CHARGED-PARTICLE TRANSPORT
COMETS
EARTH ATMOSPHERE
ION MOBILITY
IONIZATION
IONS
LITHIUM IONS
MAGNETOSPHERE
MOBILITY
PARTICLE MOBILITY
PLASMA WAVES
RADIATION TRANSPORT
SOLAR ACTIVITY
SOLAR WIND