Conference proceeding
Electric fluctuations and ion isotropy
SOLAR WIND TEN, PROCEEDINGS, Vol.679, pp.383-388
AIP Conference Proceedings
01/01/2003
DOI: 10.1063/1.1618618
Abstract
In a recent paper observations of electric field fluctuations in the range .5 to 25 Hz were reported, observations by the RPWS experiment on Cassini. We have found that the data presented in that paper are affected by broadband interference which appears to be generated in the spacecraft wake. Evidence for a wake instability will be presented. We present a new spectrum for electric fluctuations in the solar wind taken when the antennas are outside the wake. In earlier papers we have tried to understand why the solar wind behaves as a collisional plasma although collisions are very rare. Whether these electric fluctuations might replace the effects of collisions will be discussed.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Electric fluctuations and ion isotropy
- Creators
- P J KelloggM K Dougherty - Imperial College LondonR J Forsyth - Imperial College LondonD A Gurnett - University of IowaG B Hospodarsky - University of IowaW S Kurth - University of Iowa
- Contributors
- M Velli (Editor)R Bruno (Editor)F Malara (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Publication Details
- SOLAR WIND TEN, PROCEEDINGS, Vol.679, pp.383-388
- Publisher
- Amer Inst Physics
- Series
- AIP Conference Proceedings
- DOI
- 10.1063/1.1618618
- ISSN
- 0094-243X
- eISSN
- 1551-7616
- Number of pages
- 6
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2003
- Academic Unit
- Physics and Astronomy
- Record Identifier
- 9984455260902771
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