Photoelectron distribution function over the illuminated part of the Moon

Sergey I. Popel; Anatoly Golub’; Lev Zelenyi

doi:10.1140/epjd/e2014-50214-4

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Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics

Topical issue: Theory and Applications of the Vlasov Equation. Guest editors: Francesco Pegoraro, Francesco Califano, Giovanni Manfredi and Philip J. Morrison

Eur. Phys. J. D (2014) 68: 245
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2014-50214-4

Regular Article

Photoelectron distribution function over the illuminated part of the Moon^*

Sergey I. Popel¹^,2^,3^a, Anatoly Golub’¹ and Lev Zelenyi²^,3

¹ Institute for Dynamics of Geospheres, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr. 38, bldg. 1, 119334 Moscow, Russia
² Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Profsoyuznaya 84/32, 117997 Moscow, Russia
³ Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University), Institutsky per. 9, Dolgoprudnyi, 141700 Moscow region, Russia

^a e-mail: sipopel@mail.ru

Received: 15 March 2014
Received in final form: 7 June 2014
Published online: 11 September 2014

Abstract

Photoelectron distribution functions in the near-surface layer over the lunar surface are obtained on the basis of the kinetic approach. The results are shown to depend strongly on the quantum yield of lunar regolith. It is demonstrated that photoelectrons with energies of about both 1 eV and 0.1 eV should be observed in the corresponding measurements.

Contribution to the Topical Issue “Theory and Applications of the Vlasov Equation”, edited by Francesco Pegoraro, Francesco Califano, Giovanni Manfredi and Philip J. Morrison.

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