WATTIEAUX , G.

Mutual impedance experiments are a kind of plasma diagnostic techniques for the identification of the in situ plasma density and electron temperature. These plasma parameters are retrieved from mutual impedance spectra, obtained by perturbing the plasma using a set of electric emitting antennas and, simultaneously, retrieving using a set of...

Plasma diagnostic instruments are carried into space by satellites to measure in situ the properties of space plasmas. However, due to spacecraft charging, satellites perturb the surrounding plasma, that reacts by enveloping the platform and its instruments with a short scale, strongly inhomogeneous plasma region called plasma sheath. Such...

Mutual impedance experiments are in situ plasma diagnostic techniques for the identification of the plasma density and the electron temperature. Different versions of mutual impedance instruments were included in past and present space missions (e.g., Rosetta, BepiColombo, JUICE and Comet Interceptor). New versions are currently being devised...