Current flow through high-voltage sheaths observed by the TEMAG experiment during TSS-1R

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 425-428

  Mariani, F ^a   Candidi, M ^b   Orsini, S ^b   Terenzi, R ^b   Agresti, R ^b   Musmann, G ^c   Rahm, M ^c   Acuna M ^d   Panetta, P ^d   Ness, N F ^e   Neubauer, F ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRODYNAMICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; IONOSPHERE; PLASMA SHEATHS; SATELLITES; SENSORS; SPACE RESEARCH; WAVE PLASMA INTERACTIONS;

MAGNETIC SIGNATURES; TEMAG OUTBOARD SENSORS; TETHERED SATELLITE SYSTEMS (TSS); TOROIDAL CURRENT;

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; PLASMA SHEATHS;

ELECTRODYNAMIC INTERACTION; FIELD COMPONENTS; HIGH-VOLTAGE SHEATH; IONOSPHERE SYSTEM; MAGNETIC SIGNATURES; PHYSICAL INTERPRETATION; SENSOR ASSEMBLIES; TOROIDAL CURRENTS;

EID: 3743113762     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL03045     Document Type: Article

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