Effects produced by an artificial satellite rapidly moving in the ionosphere or in an interplanetary medium
Ya.L. Al’pert,
A.V. Gurevich a,
L.P. Pitaevskii b, c
a Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky prosp. 53, Moscow, 119991, Russian Federation
b Kapitza Institute of Physical Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Kosygina 2, Moscow, 117334, Russian Federation
c Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Trento and BDC Center, Povo, Trento, I-38050, Italy
I. Introduction 13 1. Formulation of Problem, Initial Data 13 2. Brief Summary of the Literature 16 II. Structure of Disturbed Region in the Vicinity of a Body Moving Rapidly in a Plasma 17 3. Initial Equations 17 4. Disturbances of Neutral-particle Concentration 18 5. Influence of Magnetic Field on the Ion-concentration Disturbance 21 6. Electric Field Around a Body 25 III. Scattering of Radiowaves by the "Trail" of a Body Moving Rapidly in a Plasma 29 7. Formulation of the Problem 29 8. Calculation of the Fourier Components of the Electron-concentration Disturbance 30 9. Effective Cross Section for the Scattering by the Trail of the Body 34 10. Character of the Field of the Scattered Wave at the Point of Observation 38 11. Effective Scattering Cross Section in the Absence of an External Magnetic Field 40 12. Disturbances Brought About by a Point-like Body 41 IV. Particle Flux in the Vicinity of the Body 42 13. General Remarks 42 14. Flux of Neutral Particles in the Vicinity of a Rapidly Moving Body 43 V. Conclusion 45 Cited Literature 45
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