Impedance and Voltage Power Spectra of a Monopole Antenna in a Warm Plasma—Derivation and Application to CubeSats
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Univ Arizona, Lunar & Planetary LabIssue Date
2020-03-20
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Maj, R., Cairns, I. H., & Martinović, M. M. (2020). Impedance and voltage power spectra of a monopole antenna in a warm plasma—derivation and application to CubeSats. Radio Science, 55(4), 1-21.Journal
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The impedance for a monopole antenna in a warm plasma is derived and compared with the cases for wire dipole and double-sphere antennas. This derivation produces a new expression for the monopole antenna response function, F-m1(x), which is very similar to the double-sphere antenna response function. The monopole, wire dipole, and double-sphere response functions are compared by modeling an antenna in Earth's ionospheric plasma (i.e., electrostatic and collisionless) and predicting the antenna capacitance and voltage power spectra for quasi-thermal noise (QTN) and shot noise. Specifically, we assume the antennas are part of a CubeSat, which has spurred this research as most interplanetary craft carry a dipole or more complicated antenna designs on board (Imbriale, 2006, ; Imbriale, Gatti et al., 2006, ). The monopole antenna current distribution is assumed to be a half-triangular current distribution (considering only the positive half of the triangular distribution), which follows that of prior authors (Balmain, 1965, ; Kuehl, 1966, ; Couturier et al., 1981, ) and simplifies comparison. The predictions for the shot noise and capacitance presented problems, as the integral over wave number space or k space did not converge for large values of k. The derived expression therefore remains a current problem in these situations, and no alternative has been found in the existing literature, necessitating future work to determine a more general expression. In this paper we bring the problem of an appropriate analytic monopole antenna response function to the attention of the community and outline a number of tests that can be used to verify any future expression.Note
6 month embargo; first published online 20 March 2020ISSN
0048-6604EISSN
1944-799XVersion
Final published versionae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1029/2019rs006956