NASA NTRS · 19860000119
High-Flux Atomic-Oxygen Source
Abstract
Beams of pure ground-state oxygen atoms produced. Accelerated electrons strike beam of O2 gas in dissociative-attachment region, producing O- ions. O- ions accelerated to desired final energy and pass through photodetachment region to form 0(3P) atoms. These pass between electric field plates to remove O- and e and strike target. Designed specifically to study degradation of materials and spacecraft glow phenomena in low Earth orbits, used to study gas-phase collision phenomena involving energetic oxygen atoms.
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Chutjian, A., Orient, O.. 1986-05-01. High-Flux Atomic-Oxygen Source. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19860000119
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