JAXA's Engineering Degital Innovation Center, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)(JEDI)
Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)(ISAS)
Kobe University
Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)(ISAS)
A three-dimensional electrostatic full Particle-In-Cell code has been developed to analyze spacecraft-plasma interactions quantitatively. We adopted the code to evaluate the correlation between the floating potential of a spacecraft and the photoelectron current in the magnetospheric plasma environment by comparing the computation results and the observation ones by the GEOTAIL spacecraft. The numerical model of the velocity distribution function of the photoelectron described as double Maxwellian was proposed to consider the correlation and the space charge effect of the photoelectron that affects to the current collection onto a spacecraft was also discussed.
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