NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) : Nuclear pdf

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) : Nuclear

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The passage of debris from a high altitude ( 400 km) nuclear burst over the ionospheric plasma is found to be capable of exciting large amplitude whistler waves which can act to structure a collisionless shock. This instability will occur in the loss cone exits of the nuclear debris bubble, and the accelerated ambient ions will freestream along the magnetic field lines into the magnetosphere. Using Starfish-like parameters and accounting for plasma diffusion and thermalization of the propagating plasma mass, it is found that synchronous orbit plasma fluxes of high temperature electrons (near 10 keV) will be significantly greater than those encountered during magnetospheric substorms. These fluxes will last for sufficiently long periods of time so as to charge immersed bodies to high potentials and arc discharges to take place

• Creator/s: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS
• Date: 2/24/1977
• Year: 1977
• Book Topics/Themes: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), CHARGING, EARTH MAGNETOSPHERE, NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS, SPACECRAFT, BUBBLES, INJECTION, MAGNETIC FIELDS, MAGNETIC STORMS, PLASMAS (PHYSICS), Pavel, A. L., Cipolla, J. A., Silevitch, M. B., Golden, K. I

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