Abstract As a follow-up to the chemical release experiment Trigger in 1977, the TOR rocket was launched from Esrange on 24 October 1984. A large amplitude electric field pulse of 250 mV/m was detected shortly after the explosion. The central part of the pulse was found to be clearly correlated with an intense layer of swept up ambient particles behind a propagating shockfront. The field was directed towards the centre of the expanding ionized cloud, which is indicative of a polarisation electric field source. An expression for this radial polarisation field is derived and found to result in an excellent agreement with observations.


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    Title :

    A model for transient electric fields associated with chemical release experiments by rockets


    Contributors:
    Marklund, G. (author) / Brenning, N. (author) / Holmgren, G. (author) / Haerendel, G. (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1988-01-01


    Size :

    8 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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