Double layer (plasma physics)A double layer is a structure in a plasma consisting of two parallel layers of opposite electrical charge. The sheets of charge, which are not necessarily planar, produce localised excursions of electric potential, resulting in a relatively strong electric field between the layers and weaker but more extensive compensating fields outside, which restore the global potential. Ions and electrons within the double layer are accelerated, decelerated, or deflected by the electric field, depending on their direction of motion.
Observatoire solaire et héliosphériqueL’Observatoire solaire et héliosphérique, en anglais Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, en abrégé SoHO, est un observatoire solaire spatial placé en orbite autour du Soleil. Son objectif principal est l'étude de la structure interne du Soleil, des processus produisant le vent solaire et de la couronne solaire. Pour mener à bien sa mission, le satellite SoHO, d'une masse de , emporte permettant d'effectuer des observations à la fois in situ et à distance. SoHO est sélectionné en 1984 dans le cadre du programme scientifique de l'Agence spatiale européenne.
Rayon δA delta ray is a secondary electron with enough energy to escape a significant distance away from the primary radiation beam and produce further ionization, and is sometimes used to describe any recoil particle caused by secondary ionization. The term was coined by J. J. Thomson. A delta ray is characterized by very fast electrons produced in quantity by alpha particles or other fast energetic charged particles knocking orbiting electrons out of atoms.
