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Langer et al. 1986
Langer, W.D., Cohen, S.A., Manos, D.M., Motley, R.W., Ono, M., Paul, S.F., Roberts, D. and Selberg, H. (1986). Detection of surface glow related to spacecraft glow phenomena. Geophysical Research Letters 13: doi: 10.1029/GL013i004p00377. issn: 0094-8276.

We have developed a source of low energy neutral atoms and molecules by using a biased limiter to scrape-off and reflect neutralized ions from a toroidal plasma. Beams of nitrogen and nitrogen-oxygen mixtures with energies of 1 to 15 eV and fluxes > 1014/cm2/s were directed on target surfaces consisting of z-302 and z-306 paints. With the nitrogen beams we successfully detected a glow due to beam-surface interactions. In addition, we observed a volume glow effect due to beam-gas interactions which may play a role in spacecraft glow.

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