Affiliation:
1. Desert Research Institute University of Nevada System Reno, Nevada 89507
Abstract
A proposal by Schumacher and Boswell for the generation of an electron ring in the magnetosphere, and subsequent collective ion acceleration, by a rocket- or satelliteborne electron gun is unfeasible, because it ignores the electric field by the charged-up gun.
Subject
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,General Physics and Astronomy,Mathematical Physics