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Name Preliminary Tests for the International Mirogravity Plasma Facility 2
Operational Nomenclature Microgravity Plasma Facility 2
URL https://hreda.esac.esa.int/hreda/#/pages/investigation;investigationAcronym=MicrogravityPlasmaFacility2_PARA
DOI https://doi.org/10.57780/esa-g64spex
Platform Parabolic Airplanes
HRE-E3P Category Physical Sciences
Mission 31st ESA Parabolic Flight Campaign
Team Coordinator Name Hubertus M. Thomas, Gregor Eugen Morfill
Version 1.0
Publication for more reference documents on plasma research of the Morfill team, please, visit the project website:, http://www.mpe.mpg.de/1310716/PK-4

Alexander D. Usachev, AV Zobnin, OF Petrov, VE Fortov, BM Annaratone, Markus H. Thoma, H Höfner, M Kretschmer, M Fink, Gregor Eugen Morfill, 2009, Formation of a Boundary-Free Dust Cluster in a Low-Pressure Gas-Discharge Plasma, Physical Review Letters, 102, 4, 045001, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.045001

Markus H. Thoma, MA Fink, H Höfner, M Kretschmer, SA Khrapak, SV Ratynskaia, VV Yaroshenko, Gregor Eugen Morfill, OF Petrov, Alexander D. Usachev, AV Zobnin, VE Fortov, 2007, PK-4: Complex Plasmas in Space - the next Generation, IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 35, 2, 255-259, DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2007.893750

Markus H. Thoma, H Höfner, M Kretschmer, S Ratynskaia, Gregor Eugen Morfill, Alexander D. Usachev, AV Zobnin, OF Petrov, VE Fortov, 2006, Parabolic Flight Experiments with PK-4, Microgravity Science and Technology, 18, 3-4, 47-50, DOI: 10.1007/BF02870378

VE Fortov, Gregor Eugen Morfill, OF Petrov, Markus H. Thoma, Alexander D. Usachev, H Höfner, AV Zobnin, M Kretschmer, S Ratynskaia, M Fink, K Tarantik, Y Gerasimov, V Esenkov, 2005, The project Plasmakristall-4 (PK-4) - a new stage in investigations of dusty plasmas under microgravity conditions: first results and future plans, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 47, 12B, B537-B549, DOI:10.1088/0741-3335/47/12B/S39

S Zhdanov, R Heidemann, Markus H. Thoma, Robert Sütterlin, Hubertus M. Thomas, H Höfner, K Tarantik, Gregor Eugen Morfill, Alexander D. Usachev, OF Petrov, VE Fortov, 2010, Dissipative Dark Solitons in DC Complex Plasmas, Europhysics Letters, 89, 2, 25001, DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/89/25001
Temporal Coverage 2001-10-16T00:00:00Z/2001-10-18T00:00:00Z
Mission Description The HRE Data Archive (HREDA) collects information and data of investigations funded or co-funded by ESA’s Directorate for Human and Robotic Exploration (HRE) and performed on microgravity and ground-based facilities since 1972.
Creator Contact https://hreda.esac.esa.int/hreda/#/pages/help/contact
Date Published 2024-09-15T14:18:10Z
Last Update 2024-11-21
Publisher And Registrant European Space Agency
Credit Guidelines European Space Agency, 2024, 'Microgravity Plasma Facility 2', 1.0, European Space Agency, https://doi.org/10.57780/esa-g64spex