Plasma-wave instrument on the AMPTE/IRM (active magnetospheric particle-tracing explorers/ion release module) spacecraft. Final report for 1 December 1981-31 August 1987

Technical Report · Wed Jan 27 04:00:00 EST 1988

OSTI ID:6967479

Anderson, R R; Gurnett, D A

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 the distant magnetosphere in order to study the transport of energization of magnetospheric particles, and to investigate the instabilities and wave-particle interactions associated with the releases and subsequent evolution of the injected clouds, and (2) to carry out large releases of barium in the solar wind with the objective of producing artificial comets and studying the interaction of the injected plasma clouds with the solar wind.

• Research Organization: Iowa Univ., Iowa City (USA). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
• OSTI ID: 6967479
• Report Number(s): AD-A-191216/1/XAB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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640201* -- Atmospheric Physics-- Auroral
Ionospheric
& Magetospheric Phenomena
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
ALKALI METALS
ALKALINE EARTH METALS
BARIUM
CHARGED PARTICLES
CLOUDS
COMETS
DOCUMENT TYPES
EARTH ATMOSPHERE
EARTH MAGNETOSPHERE
ELEMENTS
FLUIDS
GASES
INTERACTIONS
IONIZED GASES
IONS
LITHIUM
METALS
MONITORING
PLASMA WAVES
PROGRESS REPORT
SOLAR ACTIVITY
SOLAR WIND