Optical signature of an ionospheric hole

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Mar 1982

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1982georl...9..215m&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 9, Mar. 1982, p. 215-218.

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Ionospheric Disturbances, Ionospheric Electron Density, Optical Measurement, Rocket Exhaust, Satellite Observation, Signature Analysis, Airglow, Atmospheric Diffusion, Meteorological Satellites, Noaa Satellites, Photometry, Polarimetry, Space Plasmas

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Simultaneous radio and optical diagnostics of a large, artificially-induced ionospheric modification were conducted during the June 1981 launch of a weather satellite. Intensified imaging and photometer observations at 6300 A, along the same ray path as VHF polarimeter measurements of the ionosphere's total electron content (TEC), were made while the rocket plume caused disturbances. A rapid TEC chemical depletion, on the order of -16.8 x 10 to the 12th el/sq cm, caused a burst of 6300 A radiation which expanded over 60 deg of the sky, with a peak intensity of almost 9 k R. Atmospheric diffusion and O(1D) quenching rate theoretical estimates were then tested, using the event as an active space plasma experiment.

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