Abstract
Electron temperature deduced from a contaminated Langmuir probe is discussed. Laboratory and rocket experiments show that electron temperature evaluation is higher than the true value when the probe has a contaminated surface. It is concluded that the high temperature of the E-region is also due to the use of such a contaminated Langmuir probe. Hysteresis phenomenon can be explained by means of the simple equivalent circuit for the contamination layer of a probe surface.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 415-427 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | Journal of geomagnetism and geoelectricity |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1972 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Environmental Science
- General Earth and Planetary Sciences
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