Rocket observations of propagating waves in the night time equatorial F-region over Brazil

A Brazilian SONDA III rocket carrying plasma diagnostic experiments was launched from the Brazilian rocket launching stations in Alcântara (2.31°S, 44.4°W Geog. Lat.) to measure the height profiles of electron density, electron temperature and the ambient electric field. High frequency capacitance probe was used to measure the height profile of the electron density and the Langmuir probe was used to measure the electron density and the spatial structures of plasma irregularities. An electric field double probe was used to measure the electric field fluctuations associated with the F-region plasma irregularities. Spectral analysis of the fluctuations in electron density and electric field indicated the presence of propagating waves in the night time F-region over a large height range. The electron temperatures estimated from the LP data showed abnormally high values in the base of the F-region during the upleg of the rocket and practically normal values in the same height region during the downleg. A brief study of the characteristic features of the spectra of electron density and electric field fluctuations and the associated electron temperature variations are presented and discussed here.     

表面介质阻挡放电对扩散火焰燃烧特性的影响

针对表面介质阻挡放电（SDBD）在激发等离子体时具有显著的气动效应和化学活化效应，为分析表面介质阻挡放电对空气/甲烷同轴剪切扩散燃烧的助燃效果，实验使用高频交流电源，基于等离子体诱导射流逆向激励对火焰施加控制。根据获取的射流流场纹影图像、火焰图像和CH*自发辐射，研究了等离子体对不同燃烧条件下火焰燃烧特性的影响。结果表明:受等离子体气动激励作用，火焰上游细长剪切层的空气/甲烷掺混得到增强，从而扩大了剪切层燃烧宽度，同时燃烧释热速率会明显提高，这主要与等离子体活化效应有关，并且该效应显著增强了位于喷嘴出口火焰基的燃烧强度。在空气流量较低时，等离子体气动激励可有效增大火焰下游湍流度和射流角，使火焰高度降低、宽度增大，且作用效果随放电电压提高逐渐增强。      

激光推进技术中激光与工质相互作用

基于激光推进的工作特点,对激光推进中激光与工质的相互作用进行了研究.分析了激光对工质的击穿过程,得到了击穿阈值的计算方法,计算了激光对空气和氢气的击穿阈值;对工质中激光的逆韧致吸收过程进行了研究,推导了逆韧致吸收系数的计算公式.以氢气和氩气为工质进行了算例计算,计算结果可对国外文献提到的试验中出现的等离子体"漂白"和等离子体不稳定现象进行合理的解释.      

霍尔推力器分割高偏压电极等离子体放电特性

霍尔推力器通道等离子体与壁面有很强的相互作用,为了降低壁面腐蚀,提高在轨寿命, 针对推力器全通道放电过程建立二维物理模型,采用粒子模拟方法（Particle In Cell）,数值研究了电离区壁面分割高于阳极偏压的低发射石墨电极对推力器放电特性的影响,讨论了放电通道电势、离子数密度、电子温度、电离速率及比冲的变化规律。结果表明：在电离区不同位置分割高偏压电极对等离子体放电特性影响明显,电极位置在电离区前端时,电极偏压高于阳极电压60V时通道内放电等离子体参数几乎不变。而电极位置在电离区末端,电极偏压高于阳极电压18V时就会导致加速区轴向扩张,离子聚焦效果强,电子温度显著升高,电子与壁面相互作用减弱,羽流发散角减小。由此推力器比冲提升约12%,寿命延长,性能提高。     

火工品电参数测试技术研究

介绍了火工品电参数测试方法,搭建了火工品电参数测试系统。设计了火工品电容放电式点火电路,阐述了电容充放电原理和充放电电路的参数计算方法,实现了点火回路电流的测试。采用“四线”制测试方法实现对火工品桥路直流阻值瞬态变化特性的测试,通过点火回路电压值的变化进行了火工品桥丝熔断时间的测试,证明了采用本测试系统进行火工品电参数测试的可靠性和正确性,为火工品电参数测试的研究提供了有效的测试方法。     

Space observations of comets during solar flares: A possible explanation for comet brightness outbursts

Problems connected with mechanisms for comet brightness outbursts as well as for gamma-ray bursts remain open. Meantime, calculations show that irradiation of a certain class of comet nuclei, having high specific electric resistance, by intense fluxes of energetic protons and positively charged ions with kinetic energies more than 1 MeV/nucleon, ejected from the Sun during strong solar flares, can produce a macroscopic high-voltage electric double layer with positive charge in the subsurface zone of the nucleus, during irradiation times of the order of 10–100 h at heliocentric distances around 1–10 AU. The maximum electric energy accumulated in such layer will be restricted by the electric discharge potential of the layer material. For comet nuclei with typical radii of the order of 1–10 km the accumulated energy of such natural electric capacitor is comparable to the energy of large comet outbursts that are estimated on the basis of ground based optical observations. The impulse gamma and X-ray radiation together with optical burst from the comet nucleus during solar flares, anticipated due to high-voltage electric discharge, may serve as an indicator of realization of the processes above considered. Multi-wavelength observations of comets and pseudo-asteroids of cometary origin, having brightness correlation with solar activity, using ground based optical telescopes as well as space gamma and X-ray observatories, during strong solar flares, are very interesting for the physics of comets as well as for high energy astrophysics.     

火工品电参数测试技术研究

介绍了火工品电参数测试方法,搭建了火工品电参数测试系统。设计了火工品电容放电式点火电路,阐述了电容充放电原理和充放电电路的参数计算方法,实现了点火回路电流的测试。采用“四线”制测试方法实现对火工品桥路直流阻值瞬态变化特性的测试,通过点火回路电压值的变化进行了火工品桥丝熔断时间的测试,证明了采用本测试系统进行火工品电参数测试的可靠性和正确性,为火工品电参数测试的研究提供了有效的测试方法。     

Electron acceleration and parallel electric fields due to kinetic Alfvén waves in plasma with similar thermal and Alfvén speeds

We investigate electron acceleration due to shear Alfvén waves in a collissionless plasma for plasma parameters typical of 4–5R_E radial distance from the Earth along auroral field lines. Recent observational work has motivated this study, which explores the plasma regime where the thermal velocity of the electrons is similar to the Alfvén speed of the plasma, encouraging Landau resonance for electrons in the wave fields. We use a self-consistent kinetic simulation model to follow the evolution of the electrons as they interact with a short-duration wave pulse, which allows us to determine the parallel electric field of the shear Alfvén wave due to both electron inertia and electron pressure effects. The simulation demonstrates that electrons can be accelerated to keV energies in a modest amplitude sub-second period wave. We compare the parallel electric field obtained from the simulation with those provided by fluid approximations.     

Electric discharge in the Martian atmosphere,Paschen curves and implications for future missions

Electric discharge between two electrically charged surfaces occurs at a well-defined, gas-dependent combination of atmospheric pressure and the distance between those two surfaces, as described by Paschen’s law. The understanding of when the discharge will occur in the conditions present on Mars is essential for designing space-flight hardware that will operate on the Martian surface as well as understanding electrical discharge processes occurring in the Martian atmosphere. Here, we present experimentally measured Paschen curves for a gas mixture representative of the Martian atmosphere and compare our results to breakdown voltages of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and helium as measured with our system and from the literature. We will discuss possible implications for instrument development as well as implications for processes in the Martian atmosphere. The DC voltage at which electric discharge occurred between two stainless steel spheres was measured at pressures from 10⁻² to 100 torr in all gases. We measured a minimum voltage for discharge in the Mars ambient atmosphere of 410 ± 10 V at 0.3 torr cm. As an application, the breakdown properties of space-qualified, electrical wires to be used in the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite on the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) were studied.     

微等离子体转化二氧化碳发射光谱诊断

火星大气层的主要成分为二氧化碳,如果能够利用低温等离子体方法高效分解二氧化碳,使其转化为氧气和一氧化碳加以利用,可以大幅降低航天员生命保障相关载荷长途运输的成本,进一步提高生命保障能力.低温等离子体放电过程中会产生大量活性组分,可以在数百度温度下实现二氧化碳的高效解离,是具有很大潜力的二氧化碳解离与转化方式.设计了一种...     

The latitude-energy dispersion of precipitating ions inferred from the Intercosmos-Bulgaria-1300 satellite data

The Intercosmos-Bulgaria-1300 (ICB-1300) data are used to study the features of the 0.4–15.0 keV precipitating ion spectrum in auroral regions. The ion spectra recorded during disturbed periods exhibit monochromatic peaks at different energies, with lower energies being shifted to lower invariant latitudes. The results obtained are interpreted in terms of the hypothesis of ion acceleration in the inverted-V regions and their subsequent drift in the crossed electric and magnetic fields when moving to conjugate hemisphere.     

Spectroscopy peculiarities of thermal plasma of electric arc discharge between electrodes with Zn admixtures

Plasma of the free burning electric arc between Ag–SnO₂–ZnO composite electrodes as well as brass electrodes were investigated. The plasma temperature distributions were obtained by Boltzmann plot method involving Cu I, Ag I or Zn I spectral line emissions. The electron density distributions were obtained from the width and from absolute intensity of spectral lines. The laser absorption spectroscopy was used for measurement of copper atom concentration in plasma. Plasma equilibrium composition was calculated using two independent groups of experimental values (temperature and copper atom concentration, temperature and electron density). It was found that plasma of the free burning electric arc between brass electrodes is in local thermodynamical equilibrium. The experimental verification of the spectroscopic data of Zn I spectral lines was carried out.     

Carbonaceous materials in cometary environments: the case of the 3-4 micrometers bands.

We present in this paper a simulation of cometary spectra between 3 and 4 micrometers performed by using the optical properties of various carbon-based materials measured at different temperatures in the range 300-520 K. In our computations we have used new laboratory data obtained for hydrogenated amorphous carbon (HAC) grains and three kinds of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). All these materials show significant features in the near IR region; however, only the synthetic spectra obtained from HAC grains show a satisfactory agreement with the profile of the cometary bands.     

Spectroscopic data and Stark broadening of Cu I and Ag I spectral lines: Selection and analysis

Optical emission and linear laser absorption spectroscopy techniques were used in investigation of plasma with copper and silver admixture. The method of selection of spectral lines and spectroscopic data with the aim of diagnostics of multicomponent air plasma with two metal vapors admixture was developed. Energy level populations behavior on the Boltzmann plot were used for Cu I and Ag I spectroscopic data selection. In this way the selection of spectroscopic data for some of Cu I and Ag I lines was realized. Stark broadening parameters of Cu I and Ag I were examined. Experimentally obtained temperature and electron density radial distributions were used in the calculation of plasma composition in the assumption of local thermodynamic equilibrium. Linear laser absorption spectroscopy was used to examine the state of plasma.     

立方体式考夫曼离子推力器极靴结构设计

考夫曼离子推力器因具有高比冲、高效率、长寿命等特点,是应用于航天器电推进类型之一。过去研究主要集中在轴对称柱状结构考夫曼离子推力器,然而对于未来模块化立方体卫星,立方体构型推力器非常适合多推力器的组合、多推力器羽流集中中和,结构紧密并且减少航天器附件。为此,基于自主设计的立方体式考夫曼离子推力器,采用三维数值仿真方法对推力器放电室进行了计算分析,获取了不同阴极极靴内径下推力器放电室磁场分布,对比研究了不同极靴构型下放电室电子密度分布和电子温度分布。结果发现,增大阴极极靴内径使得磁场分布均匀性变差,放电室内壁电子温度升高,电子损耗增大,放电室出口离子密度降低。因此,对于本立方体考夫曼离子推力器,长宽高为15mm×12.5mm×15mm的阴极极靴构型最佳,既可保持较低的壁面电子温度,又有利推力器出口的离子均匀性。     

烧蚀型脉冲等离子体推力器能量分配机理

脉冲等离子体推力器（以下简称PPT）效率低下的缺点一直为使用者所诟病,但过去对其能量分配机理的研究十分匮乏,难以为高效率PPT的设计提供参考。针对这一现状,本研究以平板式烧蚀型PPT为对象,对推力器在4种不同放电能量（能量比1：2：3：4）下工作的电压、电流和脉冲烧蚀质量进行测量,并根据测量结果估算PPT的元冲量、比冲、效率等推进性能。此外,本研究还建立了能估算PPT推进剂利用率的数值模型,并用该模型分析实验研究结果。研究结果表明,能量利用率和推进剂利用率低下同时导致PPT推力器效率低下,随着放电能量的增加,PPT的能量利用率和推力器效率上升,分别从5.07%和2.88%逐渐提高至16.46%和5.23%,但推进剂利用率反而降低,由56.8%逐渐降低至31.8%。     

雷暴云准静电场和夜间低电离层的电离

用点电荷模型计算雷暴云突然放电后形成的准静电后形成的准静电场随高度的分布，以E/N（E的电场大小，N为大气密度）为输入参量，在一定条件下，对Boltzmann方程数值求解，计算电离层电子数密度的扰动。计算结果表明，在约70-90km之间，在约放电后的10ms内，准静电场大于中性大气的击穿电场，将引起大气的雪崩电离，从而引起夜间低电离层电子密度的显著增加，但这种电子密度的增加是暂的，在很短的时期内就恢复到平静时的水平，恢复时间随高度的变化而不同。     

瞬态空气等离子体场的全息术研究

采用双波长双脉冲激光全息术,对有激波存在下的空气放电现象进行了研究。建立了双波长电弧折射率场方程,推导出冲击波区的压强同折射率之间的关系式,得出电弧场的压强分布.曲线及等离子体区的温度分布和电子、离子、原子、分子等粒子的数密度分布。     

LHT40低功率霍尔推力器放电特性试验

为了获得300 W级混合励磁模式低功率霍尔推力器的放电特性,采用一套高精度激光微推力测量装置和集成离子流诊断装置获得推力器不同工况下推力、比冲、效率、束流发散角和质量利用效率的变化特性.试验结果表明,推力器的推力、比冲、阳极效率在200～300 V存在一个最大值;放电电流、放电电压呈现无阻尼谐波振荡特性,其一阶频率大约...