Effects of small-scale plasma disturbance on the IKB-1300 spacecraft potential |
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Authors: | VM Balebanov GL Gdalevich VF Gubsky EM Dubinin VI Lazarev NS Nikolaeva IM Podgorny MV Teltzov L Bankov A Bochev S Chapkanov Z Dachev R Koleva I Kutiev KB Serafimov G Stanev D Teodosiev |
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Institution: | Space Research Institute, U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, Profsojuznaya str., 84/32 Moscow 117810, U.S.S.R.;Central Laboratory for Space Research, BAN, Moscovska 6, Sofia, Bulgaria |
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Abstract: | The potential of the Intercosmos-Bulgaria-1300 (IKB-1300) satellite launched to a circular orbit at an altitude ~900 km was measured with several instruments. Care was taken to equalize the potential along the satellite surface. The satellite was placed inside the conducting screen and the solar cells had a metal coating. The satellite potential slightly varied along the trajectory and in the typical case it was “?2”B that corresponds to 5 kTe/e. While the satellite crossed the auroral zone small-scale fluctuations of plasma and field parameters, known as shocks, were recorded. In this region a sharp decrease of the satellite negative potential is often observed. In this case the potential variations well correlate with the increasing flux of energetic electrons. The observed variations can be explained by secondary electron emission from the satellite surface. |
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