Determination of photoionization branching ratios and total photoionization cross sections at 304 A from experimental ionospheric photoelectron fluxes

Details Determination of photoionization branching ratios and total photoionization cross sections at 304 A from experimental ionospheric photoelectron fluxes Determination of photoionization branching ratios and total photoionization cross sections at 304 A from experimental ionospheric photoelectron fluxes

May 1982

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1982jgr....87.3599r&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 87, May 1, 1982, p. 3599-3611.

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Atmospheric Chemistry, Ionization Cross Sections, Ionospheric Electron Density, Nitrogen, Oxygen Atoms, Photoionization, Abundance, High Resolution, Photoelectrons, Solar Radiation

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High-resolution measurements of the ionospheric photoelectron spectrum are used to derive photoionization cross sections and branching ratios for N2 and O at 304 A, the wavelength of the intense He II solar radiation. Based on a theory in which the measured fluxes at energies 22.5, 24.5, 25.5 and 27.5 eV are determined by the ratio of the production rate and the loss rate coefficient, values are obtained for the ratio of molecular nitrogen density to atomic oxygen density as a function of altitude, the sum of the total photoionization cross sections, the 2P/4S and 2D/4S branching ratios for O and the B/X and A/X branching ratios for N2 photoionization and the ratios and the interspecies cross section ratios 2D/A, 4S/X and 2P/B. The values obtained are in accord with the photoionization cross sections of Kirby et al. (1979).

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