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Calculations on the electron sheath around illuminated satellites suffer from a lack of experimental data on the photoelectron characteristics of surface materials commonly used in space. The majority of photoemission data available today have been taken in ultrahigh vacuum under carefully controlled conditions in order to ensure clean surfaces, since the primary interest has been the aspects of solid state physics. These data cannot be used for the calculation of photoemission from the type of materials actually used in space, due to the extreme sensitivity of photoemission properties to adsorbed gases and surface layers down to fractions of a monolayer thickness.
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Anderegg, M., Feuerbacher, B., Fitton, B. (1973). Experimental Investigation of Photoemission from Satellite Surface Materials. In: Grard, R.J.L. (eds) Photon and Particle Interactions with Surfaces in Space. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 37. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2647-5_20
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