By Anthony K. Hyder
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As Purvis (1993) points out, in the more energetic substorm plasmas, the Debye length, the scale length over which charge neutrality is established and equilibrium ex- ists, is very large compared to the size of the spacecraft- Thus, space-charge effects can be neglected, system voltages remain small compared to the plasma energies, and the plasma environment determines the electrical interactions. Furthermore, the plasma current density is of the order 10~10 A/cm2 which is comparable to the photoelectron current density for a sunlit surface making the photocurrent an important factor.