Plasma characteristics determined by the Freja electric field instrument

The Spin-Plane Double Probe Electric Field Instrument for MMS

The Spin-plane double probe instrument (SDP) is part of the FIELDS instrument suite of the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission (MMS). Together with the Axial double probe instrument (ADP) and the Electron Drift Instrument (EDI), SDP will measure the 3-D electric field with an accuracy of 0.5 mV/m over the frequency range from DC to 100 kHz. SDP consists of 4 biased spherical probes extended on 60...

On the source of plasma density and electric field perturbations in PMSE and PMWE regions

تشکیل ابرهای مسسفری در فصل تابستان و در ارتفاع ۸۰ تا ۹۰ کیلومتری از سطح زمین در نواحی قطبی دارای اهمیت بسیار زیادی می باشند. ارتباط مستقیم بین افزایش مشاهده این ابرها و پدیده گرم شدن کره زمین از دلایل اصلی اهمیت مطالعه این ناحیه می باشد. طبق تحقیقات انجام شده افزایش گازهای گلخانه ای باعث کاهش دما در این ناحیه از جو می شود. از طرف دیگر افزایش گاز متان و فرایند تجزیه آن توسط نور خورشید نیز باعث ا...

MEFISTO – An electric field instrument for BepiColombo/MMO

MEFISTO, together with the companion instrument WPT, are planning the first-ever in situ measurements of the electric field in the magnetosphere of planet Mercury. The instruments have been selected by JAXA for inclusion in the BepiColombo/MMO payload, as part of the Plasma Wave Investigation coordinated by Kyoto University. The magnetosphere of Mercury was discovered by Mariner 10 in 1974 and ...

Electric-field-induced phase transitions in bent-core mesogens determined by x-ray diffraction.

The changes in the x-ray diffraction diagram induced by an electric field have been studied in four bent-core liquid crystals. Two of the compounds present columnar B1 phases and the other two show dark conglomerate (DC) structures. In the B1 materials the electric field gives rise to switchable phases whose diffraction pattern is that of the smectic C polar (SmCP) phase. In the DC structures t...

Measurement of the Plasma Radial Electric Field by the Motional Stark Effect Diagnostic on JET Plasmas