热离子质谱分析仪的研制及定标

热离子质谱分析是空间等离子体探测的核心技术之一.热离子质谱分析仪采用了半球形静电分析器结合基于碳膜的飞行时间系统方案，是目前应用最广泛、最成熟的空间热离子质谱分析技术.热离子质谱分析仪解决了三项关键技术，即5mV高分辨扫描高压，10~20nm超薄碳膜处理以及30kV超高加速电压.分析仪原理样机在瑞士伯尔尼大学完成了定标试验，实现指标参数如下:能量范围为0.499eV~29.94keV，能量分辨率为10.5%；能够实现离子成分H+，He+，O+的分辨；视场范围为360°×8.4°，角度分辨率为22.5°×8.4°.基于热离子质谱分析仪的研制基础，可以进一步开发出更高质谱分辨、更大探测视场以及小型化的等离子体探测载荷.      

自主火星探测高集成离子与中性粒子分析仪

小型化、高集成化是深空探测载荷发展的主要趋势。在我国自主火星探测计划中,设计了一种高集成化的火星离子与中性粒子分析仪。采用从传感器到电子学进行最大限度共用的设计思路,在一台仪器中实现对离子和能量中性原子进行能量、方向和成分的探测,大大降低了仪器对卫星平台的资源需求。仪器采取静电分析进行离子的方向和能量测量、采取飞行时间方法进行离子成分的测量。中性原子采用电离板电离成带电离子,后端的能量测量和成分测量与离子相同。鉴定件样机已经完成了初步的测试定标,结果表明其满足设计要求。     

质谱计在行星系统与小天体探测中的应用

质谱计多次应用于行星系统和小天体的大气层与土壤吸附气体或挥发组分及其同位素含量探索,是太阳系行星系统和小天体探测计划中的首选载荷之一。大气和土壤元素及其同位素组分探测对资源勘探、行星系统的宜居性、天体演化、起源及其重要事件的精准时间坐标研究等具有重要意义。质谱计已多次成功应用于火星、土星系、木星系、彗星等探测任务中开展大气环境探测。质谱计的探测对象主要包括太阳系行星、行星卫星如月球、木星伽利略卫星、土卫,以及地外小行星和彗星。四极杆质谱计在当前的深空空间环境探测活动中应用最为广泛。利用四极杆质谱计除可用于探测稀薄天体大气与土壤析出气体外,如增加抽真空能力的前端设计,则具备探测稠密大气成分的能力。中科院空间中心研发的星载质谱计已多次成功应用于地球行星大气成分和密度探测。     

Advanced techniques for plasma composition and dynamics measurements

Magnetic and RF mass spectrometers have been used routinely in ionospheric research, while traditional ionospheric, magnetospheric, and interplanetary plasma measurements have been made with several types of electrostatic analyzers. Proper interpretation of these data is possible if the spectral peaks are well defined, although ambiguities between fast, light ions and slow, heavy ions cannot always be satisfactorily resolved. Recent and planned experiments involve the study of plasmas which are sufficiently energetic that the spectral peaks overlap. Furthermore, these studies of ionosphere/magnetosphere coupling and of the interaction of the solar wind with the atmospheres of Venus and comets require unambiguous identification of the ion masses with simultaneous mapping of the three-dimensional velocity distribution function of each ion species. This challenge has been partially met by several new types of instruments; the two most common types involve either (1) sequential electrostatic and magnetic analyses or (2) sequential electrostatic and time-of-flight analyses. Some new instruments have also incorporated measurements of total kinetic energy, electric charge, or secondary emission coefficients as diagnostic tools. This paper reviews these recent advances and points out areas where further development is expected and needed.     

小型磁偏转质谱计性能实验研究

自主研发了小型磁偏转质谱计，并对其质量范围、分辨本领、灵敏度和最小可检分压力四个主要性能指标进行了实验测试和比对。结果表明，该质谱计的质量范围为（1~143）amu，相对N₂的分辨本领为1400，灵敏度为4.2×10^-5 A/Pa，最小可检分压力为9.5×10^-7 Pa。该测试和比对结果为磁偏转质谱计进一步的优化设计和性能提高奠定了重要基础。     

Instrumentation and data systems for high-time resolution study of space plasma shocks

This paper deals with the principal methods of achieving high-time resolution measurements for the study of fine structure of shocks and other discontinuities in space plasmas. In the measurements of ion energy spectra, we have obtained the time resolution about 1s.In the Soviet-Czechoslovak INTERSHOCK project we will obtain temporal resolution better than 0.1s in the measurement of the main plasma parameters. This will be obtained with the multichannel energy spectrometer and the on-board data acquisition and processing system triggered by the shock signature. This system controls the data sampling rate from some scientific instruments and switches on a high-sampling rate near the shock. The method implies detecting a shock by means of on-board processing of magnetic field and plasma parameters. The algorithm for this detection uses both parameters separately as well as in combinations.     

Bodies in flowing plasmas: Laboratory studies

A brief review of early laboratory investigations of bodies in flowing, rarefied plasmas is given together with a discussion of more recent parametric studies carried out at NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), which include the effects of the ion acoustic Mach number and the normalized test body potential. Good agreement is found between the experimental results and theoretical calculations which omit ion thermal motion. The relation between laboratory investigations and the results of satellite-borne measurements is addressed. This relationship has led to an appreciation for the benefits of applying the methods and techniques of laboratory plasma physics to investigations in space, where several limitations inherent to the laboratory can be circumvented. These types of investigations, conducted in Earth orbit, can enhance our understanding of space plasma physics and have direct application to certain types of solar system phenomena.     

Propagation of cosmic ray nuclei above 50 GeV/amu

It is now well-known that the relative abundance of secondary cosmic ray nuclei which are produced by spallation in interstellar space depends on energies. The mechanism responsible for this energy dependence are not well understood because of the scarcity of data on the cosmic ray composition at energy above 50 GeV/amu. The University of Chicago experiment on the Spacelab-2 flown by the Space Shuttle in 1985 is aimed at the measurement of the elemental composition in this unexplored energy regime. Our latest results on the energy dependence of the secondary to primary abundance ratio using the pairs of elements B,C and N,O, are discussed.     

大型卫星总体装配的测试及校准技术

针对大型卫星在总体装配生产过程中需要对其密封性能、仪器的安装精度、质量特性性能指标进行准确测试的要求,研制了单点、总漏率四极质谱和氦质谱测试系统及相应的标定装置,实现了大型卫星电推进系统密封性能的准确测试和实时比对校准;研制了基于三坐标转换机的大载荷质心、转动惯量集成质量特性测试系统和直接比对校准转子,单次安装测出所有轴向的质量特性参数;研制经纬仪、激光跟踪仪联合高精度角度和位置安装精度测量系统,研制基准转换器,实现测量坐标系的转化和测量精度的实时校准。完成了数个大型卫星总装过程的专业测试工作,保证了大型卫星的总装过程装配质量。     

静电传感器测量固体颗粒质量流量实验研究

航空发动机气路和排放尾气中固体颗粒物的监测有助于提高相关设备故障的识别和预警能力。采用3种不同形式的静电传感器测量方形管道中固体颗粒质量流量,并对其测量准确度进行了对比分析。3种静电传感器在4种输送气流速度和4种固体颗粒质量流量组合成的16种工况下测量了稀相固体颗粒的静电信号,并利用静电信号强度和固体颗粒速度进行了全工况固体颗粒质量流量标定。实验结果表明:方环形静电电极的平均测量偏差最大,侵入式条状静电电极阵列在质量流量较低时的测量偏差最小,非侵入式条状静电电极阵列在质量流量较高时的测量偏差最小。      

电磁监测试验卫星离子漂移计定标实验研究

离子漂移计用于探测离子垂直轨道方向的漂移速度.离子漂移计的定标实验包括电子学定标和等离子体环境定标.通过对自行研制的电磁监测试验卫星离子漂移计的电子学定标方法研究，测试得到离子漂移计的噪声、电流测量范围、增益和修正系数以及温漂等电子学定标参数.测试结果表明，离子漂移计的电子学性能优于设计要求，满足科学探测需求.此外，借助于意大利INAF-IAPS等离子体测试实验设备模拟电离层等离子体环境，对离子漂移计的等离子体环境定标问题进行了分析研究.等离子体环境下的测试结果表明，该离子漂移计在特征点处测量结果满足仪器指标要求，能够正确探测离子横向速度，且其相对精度满足设计要求.      

极光场线上上行氧离子(O+)束驱动的静电离子迥旋波和离子声波不稳定性

本文研究了由背景热电子、背景冷质子(H+)和强各向异性氧离子(O+)束组成的模型等离子体中静电O+迴旋波和离子声波不稳定性.结果表明,低频(|ω|<σ_p,σ_p表示质子迴旋频率)静电O+迴旋波和离子声波可以由极光场线上上行O+束来激发.上行O+束可能是极光场线上低频静电不稳定性一个重要的自由能源.      

Electron beam experiments in Japanese satellites and rockets

Electron beam experiments in space that have been done and planned in Japan are reviewed. 200eV, 1mA electron beam is emitted from a satellite and several types of wave excitation such as UHF and ω_ce have been observed. The satellite potential and the energy spectrum of returning electrons are measured by Langmuir probes and electrostatic energy analyser. In rocket experiments of K-10-11, K-10-12, K-9M-57, K-9M-58, K-9M-61 and K-9M-66, several types of electron guns were used whose power ranges from 1mW to 1KW. The rocket potential was measured by Langmuir probes and floating probes and optical line emission measurement and wave measurements were also done. The rocket potential was not so high as expected from the balance with ionospheric plasma but strongly affected by the plasma production by the emitted electron beam and return electrons.     

Ion-acoustic waves in unmagnetized collisionless weakly relativistic plasma of warm-ion and isothermal-electron using time-fractional KdV equation

Collisionless unmagnetized plasma consisting of a mixture of warm ion-fluid and isothermal-electron is considered, assuming that the ion flow velocity has a weak relativistic effect. The reductive perturbation method has been employed to derive the Korteweg–de Vries (KdV) equation for small – but finite-amplitude electrostatic ion-acoustic waves in this plasma. The semi-inverse method and Agrawal’s method lead to the Euler–Lagrange equation that leads to the time fractional KdV equation. The variational-iteration method given by He is used to solve the derived time fractional KdV equation. The calculations show that the fractional order may play the same rule of higher order dissipation in KdV equation to modulate the soliton wave amplitude in the plasma system. The results of the present investigation may be applicable to some plasma environments, such as space-plasmas, laser-plasma interaction, plasma sheet boundary layer of the earth’s magnetosphere, solar atmosphere and interplanetary space.     

A European probe to comet Halley

A European probe to comet Halley is proposed. The probe's model payload consists of 8 scientific instruments, viz. neutral, ion and dust impact mass spectrometers, magnetometer, medium energy ion and electron analyzer, camera, dust impact detectors and plasma wave experiment. Fly-by of the comet Halley nucleus will take place on November 28th, 1985, at about 500 km miss distance. The main spacecraft serves as relay link to transmit the observed data to Earth. As probe, a modified ISEE 2 design is proposed. Because of the cometary dust hazard expected in the coma a heavy dust shield (27 kg) is required, consisting of a thin front sheet and a 3 layer rear sheet. The probe is spin-stabilized (12 rpm), has no active attitude and orbit control capability and uses battery power only to provide about 1000 Wh for a measuring phase. A despun antenna transmits up to 20 kbit/s, in X-band. The total probe mass is estimated at 250 kg. The 3 model development programme should start in mid 1981 with Phase B.     

分区式线型阱设计及其离子囚禁性能分析

基于分区式线型阱的汞离子微波钟已在国际上首次实现了空间在轨飞行验证，为今后深空探测技术领域实现单向导航奠定了基础。设计了一种基于“四极阱+十二极阱”的分区式线型离子阱，主要采用离子数密度分布模型，数值分析了轴向和径向的势阱结构特征，研究了该离子阱的离子囚禁性能，给出了囚禁离子的设计参数，估算了该离子阱应用于汞离子微波钟的二阶多普勒频移大小。论证了四极阱中实现光抽运与荧光探测，十二极阱中实现离子与微波相互作用及自由演化稳定存储功能的可行性。该项工作对于高性能离子囚禁钟和质谱仪的设计具有一定借鉴意义。     

电离层综合探测器数据采集处理单元设计研究

电离层综合探测器(CDI)是一种面向快速响应航天器平台、用于原位综合探测电离层等离子体及未完全电离中性气体的新概念空间环境探测仪器, 实现了对常规平板朗缪尔探针、阻滞势分析器和离子阱质量分析器的小型化、一体化设计与集成. 本文基于USB2.0接口和FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array)技术, 选用高集成度的COTS (Commercial-Off-The-Shelf)器件, 对CDI多通道数据采集处理单元的系统方案和硬件设计进行研究, 并对FPGA的逻辑资源利用情况和Fusion器件内部ADC采样以及FIFO (First Input First Output)读写时序进行了仿真和分析.      

Positive ion composition and electron density in a combined auroral and NLC event

The positive ion composition and electron density were measured in the lower ionosphere above Kiruna in salvo A of CAMP (Cold Arctic Mesopause Project). The CAMP/P (S37/P) payload carrying a magnetic ion spectrometer, positive ion and electron probes, and propagation experiments was launched on 3 August 1982 2332 UT during extended Noctilucent Clouds (NLC) and auroral activities over Kiruna. The measured electron density was 5×10³cm^?3 at 80 km and 2.5×10⁵cm^?3 at 90 km. The increase of ion and electron densities in the D- and E-region during twilight was caused by precipitating auroral particles. The height distribution of the positive ions measured by the mass spectrometer in the mass range 19–280 amu is different from a winter flight with similar auroral conditions. Below 85.5 km proton hydrates H⁺(H₂O)₃ ? H⁺(H₂O)₈ were the dominant ions. The heaviest proton hydrates H⁺(H₂O)₇ and H⁺(H₂O)₈ were most abundant at 82–85.5 km, the altitude of visible NLC. Above 85.5 km O₂⁺ and NO⁺ became dominant. A small metal ion layer was observed between 90.5–93 km with a maximum ion density of 10% of the total positive ion density at 91 km altitude. The metal ion density disappeared within about a km below 90.5 km.     

High resolution measurements of nightside ion troughs at venus: Evidence of electrodynamic perturbations

The Bennett rf ion mass spectrometer (OIMS) on the Pioneer Venus Orbiter was particularly designed to provide variable temporal resolution for measurements of thermal ion composition and density. An Explore-Adapt mode is used to obtain priority for measurement of most prominent ion species, and in a 2/16 configuration, the two dominant ions within the available range of 16 species are selectively sampled at the highest rate of 0.2 sec/sample. The high resolution measurements are combined with independent observations from the magnetic field (OMAG), neutral mass spectrometer (ONMS), and electron temperature (OETP) experiments to investigate sharply structured troughs in the low altitude nightside ion concentrations. The results indicate a close correlation between the structure in the ion distributions and the structured configuration of the magnetic field which is draped about the planet. In the regions of the ion depletions, sharp fluctuations in electron temperature and anomalous increases in the density of neutral gases indicate that the ion depletion may be associated either with dynamic perturbation in the ion and neutral flows, and/or local joule heating. The configuration of the ion flow/magnetic field draping and consequent electric fields for these events must be analyzed in detail to understand the relationships.     

Direct measurement of the composition and spectra of cosmic rays above 1 TeV/amu from Jacee

Direct measurements on cosmic ray protons through iron above about 1 TeV/amu have been performed in a series of balloon-borne experiments with emulsion chambers. The measured energy spectra of protons and helium are power laws with exponents of 2.77 ± 0.09 and 2.72 ± 0.11 in the energy range 5 to 500 TeV and 2 to 50 TeV/amu, respectively. The proton spectrum shows no evidence of the steepening near 2 TeV which was reported by other experiments. Helium has a slightly higher intensity compared to extrapolations from lower energy measurements. The heavier elements, carbon to sulfur, show a small tendency for intensity enhancement in the relative abundance above 10 TeV/amu.