On Tethered Satellite System Current Enhancement
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-17-2023
Department
Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
Abstract
Improvements of investigations on the Tethered Satellite System (TSS)-1R electron current enhancement due to magnetic limited collections are reported. New analytical expressions are obtained for the potential and temperature changes across the pre-sheath. The mathematical treatments in this work are more rigorous than one past approach. More experimental measurements collected in the ionosphere during the TSS-1R mission are adopted for validations. The relations developed in this work offer two bounding curves for these data points quite successfully; the average of these two curves is close to the curve-fitting results for the measurements; and an average of 2.95 times larger than the Parker-Murphy theory is revealed. The results indicate that including the pre-sheath analysis is important to compute the electron current enhancement due to magnetic limitations.
Publication Title
Space Physics
Recommended Citation
Cai, C.,
Cai, S.,
&
Cooke, D. L.
(2023).
On Tethered Satellite System Current Enhancement.
Space Physics.
http://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2312.10575
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