Plasma wave instrument on the AMPTE/IRM (Active Magnetospheric Particle Tracing Explorers/Ion Release Module) spacecraft. Annual letter report, 1 December 1984-30 November 1985

Technical Report · Sat Nov 30 04:00:00 EST 1985

OSTI ID:6055197

The primary purposes of the Active Magnetospheric Particle Tracing Explorers (AMPTE) program were (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 and dusk 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 could be made.

• Research Organization: Iowa Univ., Iowa City (USA). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
• OSTI ID: 6055197
• Report Number(s): AD-A-163048/2/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
CLOUDS
COMETS
CONVECTION
DIAMAGNETISM
DIFFUSION
EARTH ATMOSPHERE
EARTH MAGNETOSPHERE
ENERGY TRANSFER
HEAT TRANSFER
INTERACTIONS
ION EXCHANGE
IONIZATION
IONS
LITHIUM IONS
MAGNETISM
MAGNETOSHEATH
MASS TRANSFER
MOMENTUM TRANSFER
MONITORING
PARTICLES
PLASMA WAVES
SOLAR ACTIVITY
SOLAR WIND
SPECTRA
VISIBLE SPECTRA