Coordinated rocket and satellite measurements of an auroral event. II - The rocket observations and analysis

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May 1979

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1979jgr....84.1977s&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 84, May 1, 1979, p. 1977-1985.

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Atmospheric Models, Auroras, Data Reduction, Rocket Sounding, Satellite Observation, Auroral Zones, Electron Density (Concentration), Electron Flux Density, Electron Impact, Gas Dissociation, Ion Production Rates, Neutral Gases, Nitrogen, Optical Transition, Thermosphere

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A rocket-borne payload launched into an aurora and a simultaneous overpass of the Atmosphere Explorer C satellite yielded measurements of auroral optical emission rates, thermal ion and electron densities, and low-energy electron fluxes. Model calculations of the thermospheric manifestation of the aurora were performed through use of rocket-determined auroral ionization rates and satellite-determined neutral gas densities. Measured oxygen densities provided a means of assessing the quenching rate of an excited state of N2. Energy transfer from this excited state appears to be the major source of 5577-A emission. Optical emission at 6300 A cannot be explained either by electron impact on atomic oxygen or by dissociative recombination of O2(+).

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