A. Yu. Shestakov

Space Research Institute · Department of Space Plasma Physics

The work is dedicated to solving the problem of miniaturization of plasma instruments, in particular, the development of a miniature ion analyzer for small spacecraft. The described instrument can be used as part of a prognostic and diagnostic complex designed to monitor the conditions in the solar wind and detect critical events. The target parame...

The characteristics of a hardware–software facility for laboratory adjustments and calibrations of plasma energy–mass spectrometers, which are created within the framework of Russian and international space missions, are presented. The principle of operation of the ARIES-L instrument is described and the results of functional tests of instruments t...

The Interhelioprobe mission aims to investigate the inner heliosphere and the Sun from close distances (up to 0.3 AU) and from out of the ecliptic plane (up to 30°). In this paper we present the relevance of the mission and its main scientific objectives, describe the scientific payload, ballistic scenario and orbits of the spacecraft. Possibilitie...

Increasing the temporal resolution and instant coverage of velocity space of space plasma measurements is one of the key issues for experimentalists. Today the top-hat plasma analyzer appears to be the favorite solution due to its relative simplicity and the possibility to extend its application by adding a mass-analysis section and an electrostati...

We analyze an event in front of the bow shock observed by Cluster spacecraft on 22.02.2006. This event has many attributes of Hot Flow Anomaly at early stage of development including strong upstream beam and disturbed magnetic profile with increased magnetic field at one or two sides as observed by 4 Cluster spacecraft. The angle between the magnet...

Five hot flow anomalies (HFA) recorded by the Tail Probe of the INTERBALL satellite in 1996 are analyzed in present work. For the five chosen events the authors determined the characteristics of current sheets whose interaction with the bow shock front led to formation of an HFA, as well as the directions of external electric fields and the directi...

This paper presents the testing results of the neutral particles converter device "Aries-L" for the "Luna-Resurs" project of the Space Research Institute (RAS).

This paper presents the concept of Lunar regolith surface layer composition analysis using solar wind bombardment and registration of the sputtered and knocked out atoms converted into ions with solid-state converters and subsequent registration of ions by high-aperture electrostatic analyzer. Monte Carlo binary collision approximation code is used...

The work is dedicated to investigation of Hot Flow Anomaly (HFA), formed at the front of Earth’s bows hock. Using Interball-Tail data we estimated orientation of the current sheet that was a cause of the anomaly. From the ion energy-time spectrogram we divided the anomaly into several regions. The motional electric fields near the HFA were estimate...

Hot Flow Anomaly observed on Interball-Tail on 03.14.1996 is investigated. The normal to the interplanetary current sheet interacting with bow shock was determined in assumption of tangential discontinuity. Calculated motional electric field was directed towards current sheet. The bow shock before HFA arrival to the spacecraft was quasi-perpendicul...