Ionization frequencies for solar cycle 21 - Revised

Details Ionization frequencies for solar cycle 21 - Revised Ionization frequencies for solar cycle 21 - Revised

Jul 1985

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985jgr....90.6675t&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 90, July 1, 1985, p. 6675-6678.

Physics

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Atmospheric Ionization, Extreme Ultraviolet Radiation, Ionization Frequencies, Solar Cycles, Solar Flux, Thermosphere, Aeronomy, Lyman Spectra, Photochemical Reactions, Ultraviolet Spectra

Scientific paper

Detailed spectra of the extreme ultraviolet solar flux at the earth were provided by instruments on the Atmosphere Explorer satellites. These data have been used for aeronomical purposes in a large number of studies. An important parameter for such studies is the rate of production of various ions through the photoionization process. This parameter, known as an ionization frequency, is the integral over wavelength of the product of the solar flux and the cross section for the ionization of the particular constituent. Thus, the determination of the ionization rate is dependent on a good knowledge of the solar EUV intensities for the solar period in question. Over the past few years the EUV solar spectra that have been developed for use by aeronomers as reference spectra for such photochemical and ionospheric studies have been improved. The results of a redetermination of the most important ionization frequencies using the revised solar fluxes are reported. The impact is found to be more significant at solar maximum, amounting to a reduction of 12-21 percent in the ionization frequencies of the major terrestrial thermospheric constituents for solar-minimum conditions and 21-33 percent for solar-maximum conditions. The corrections are apart from the ongoing debate concerning the absolute intensity of EUV solar-flux measurements for the solar-cycle 21 maximum period.

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