The oxygen polar corona

Details The oxygen polar corona The oxygen polar corona

Apr 1980

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980jgr....85.1795y&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 85, Apr. 1, 1980, p. 1795-1799.

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Coronas, Oxygen Atoms, Polar Regions, Gas Density, Latitude, Oxygen Ions, Vertical Distribution

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At high-latitude regions, energetic oxygen atoms are produced by a nonthermal mechanism associated with precipitated energetic atomic oxygen ions during disturbed periods. The upward moving nonthermal atoms can redistribute themselves at higher altitudes. For the storm of December 17, 1971, assuming the energetic O(+) ions are uniformly precipitated between 50 deg and 70 deg magnetic latitudes, the nonthermal oxygen atoms become dominant over the ambient at about 700 km on the dayside and at about 600 km on the nightside at 60 deg magnetic latitude. Globally, a high-number-density atomic oxygen corona appears between 50 deg and 70 deg magnetic latitudes above the exobase, and the maximum is located at a few degrees poleward from the center of the band (63 deg magnetic latitude).

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