Analytic exosphere models for geocoronal applications

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Jun 1991

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991p%26ss...39..885b&link_type=abstract

Planetary and Space Science (ISSN 0032-0633), vol. 39, June 1991, p. 885-893.

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Atmospheric Models, Exosphere, Geocoronal Emissions, Density Distribution, Distribution Functions, Lyman Alpha Radiation, Monte Carlo Method

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The Chamberlain (1963) analytic approach to planetary exospheres is presently modified with a view to the analysis of geocoronal observations. A spherical exopause is used to delineate the extent of the satellite hydrogen atom population, and the kinetic distribution function (KDF) is parameterized in terms of an effective exobase density and temperature whose values are different from ballistic ones and are expected to be indicative of the effects of charge-exchange collisions in the topside ionosphere and plasmasphere. The meaning of satellite KDF parameters is illustrated by means of an application to averaged atomic oxygen density distributions.

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