Preferential O(+) heating in the topside ionosphere

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Sep 1986

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986georl..13..901m&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 13, Sept. 1986, p. 901-904.

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Auroral Zones, Ionospheric Heating, Ionospheric Ion Density, Oxygen Ions, Electron Precipitation, Exosphere, F 2 Region, Ion Distribution, Plasma Waves

Scientific paper

Observations of preferential heating of the ionospheric majority ion species O(+), are reported. The heating took the form of a hot (few electron volts) tail in the upgoing thermal O(+). No such hot tail was observed in the light ion distributions. An event observed at 700-800 km altitude was highly anisotropic with a much hotter tail transverse to the local magnetic field. A series of events observed at 250-375 km were more nearly isotropic with respect to the local magnetic field. Broadband plasma wave emission near the lower hybrid resonance was observed in conjunction with the high altitude event. The low altitude events were tightly correlated with auroral electron precipitation, but broadband lower hybrid emission was much reduced. The observed hot tail formation is sufficient to produce significant O(+) ion transport to higher altitude auroral acceleration regions.

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