A beam/plasma interaction in the high-altitude auroral ionosphere

Details A beam/plasma interaction in the high-altitude auroral ionosphere A beam/plasma interaction in the high-altitude auroral ionosphere

May 1980

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980p%26ss...28..467j&link_type=abstract

Planetary and Space Science, vol. 28, May 1980, p. 467-474.

Physics

Auroral Ionization, Electron Precipitation, High Energy Electrons, Ionospheric Electron Density, Plasma-Particle Interactions, Spectrum Analysis, Electron Energy, Energy Spectra, Hot Electrons, Maxwell-Boltzmann Density Function

Scientific paper

Ambient thermal electrons are found to be heated to temperatures as high as 100,000 K by the passage of a field-aligned beam of suprathermal electrons through the ionosphere at altitudes over 660 km. These secondary electrons will increase the proportion of 630 nm emission, caused by the primary electron precipitation, and change the secondary electron spectrum observed at lower altitudes from that expected on the basis of atmospheric collisions alone.

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