Evidences of a distorted electron energy distribution in ionospheric plasma

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Sep 1976

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1976p%26ss...24..900o&link_type=abstract

Planetary and Space Science, vol. 24, Sept. 1976, p. 900-904.

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Electron Energy, Ionospheric Electron Density, Ionospheric Temperature, Plasma Diagnostics, Rocket Sounding, Electrostatic Probes, Geophysics, Ionospheric Sounding, Thermal Plasmas

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The energy distribution of thermal electrons in the ionospheric plasma was measured by means of a glass-sealed Langmuir probe. Second derivatives of the V-I curves were obtained electrically by using the second-harmonic method. The height of the measurement was from 103 to 360 km. Above 130 km, the energy distribution of thermal electrons was Maxwellian enough to evaluate electron temperature. Below 130 km, the electrons appeared to consist of two groups of electrons of different temperatures. Because of the bi-Maxwellian energy distribution, the apparent electron temperature obtained from the above method differed from that obtained with an electron-temperature probe.

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