Data Analysis of the Floating Potential Measurement Unit aboard the International Space Station
- Author:
- Swenson, Charles M.
- Published:
- April 17, 2009.
- Physical Description:
- 1 electronic document
- Additional Creators:
- Wright, Kenneth H., Jr.
Thompson, Donald C.
Barjatya, Aroh - Access Online:
- hdl.handle.net
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- Unclassified, Unlimited, Publicly available.
- Summary:
- We present data from the Floating Potential Measurement Unit (FPMU), that is deployed on the starboard (S1) truss of the International Space Station. The FPMU is a suite of instruments capable of redundant measurements of various plasma parameters. The instrument suite consists of: a Floating Potential Probe, a Wide-sweeping spherical Langmuir probe, a Narrow-sweeping cylindrical Langmuir Probe, and a Plasma Impedance Probe. This paper gives a brief overview of the instrumentation and the received data quality, and then presents the algorithm used to reduce I-V curves to plasma parameters. Several hours of data is presented from August 5th, 2006 and March 3rd, 2007. The FPMU derived plasma density and temperatures are compared with the International Reference Ionosphere (IRI) and USU-Global Assimilation of Ionospheric Measurement (USU-GAIM) models. Our results show that the derived in-situ density matches the USU-GAIM model better than the IRI, and the derived in-situ temperatures are comparable to the average temperatures given by the IRI.
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- NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
- Note:
- Document ID: 20090025959.
M09-0412.
Review of Scientific Instruments; Volume 80; Issue 5. - Terms of Use and Reproduction:
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