Charged Article Acceleration Mechanisms in Space Plasmas -- Double Layers

这笔赠款用于继续进行中的实验室 各种双电层的实验测量 特性. 这些调查的重点将继续下去 为了更好地理解未磁化的“阶梯”双 层，具有轴向磁场的双层，斜双层 层和壁双层护套。 这些研究 这一点很重要，因为卫星和地面数据提供了 加速极光的结构的不完整图片 电子。

This grant is for continuation of ongoing laboratory experimental measurements of a variety of double layer properties. The emphasis of these investigations will continue to be to better understand unmagnetized "stairstep" double layers, double layers with axial magnetic fields, oblique double layers, and wall double layer-sheaths. These studies are important because satellite and earth based data provide an incomplete picture of the structures which accelerate auroral electrons.