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Most Recent Studies of Low Latitude Effects Due to Conjugate Location Heating
Author(s) -
Carlson H. C.
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
radio science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1944-799X
pISSN - 0048-6604
DOI - 10.1002/rds196837668
Subject(s) - airglow , conjugate , ionosphere , conjugate points , flux (metallurgy) , atmospheric sciences , plasma , electron density , electron , atomic physics , physics , latitude , f region , computational physics , geophysics , materials science , astronomy , nuclear physics , mathematical analysis , mathematics , pure mathematics , metallurgy
The present experimental evidence for the existence of a streaming of a photoelectron flux between magnetically conjugate hemispheres is reviewed. During local night but sunlit conjugate conditions, significant effects are observed on electron temperature, ionic composition, electron density distribution, the intensity of a weak plasma resonance line, and 6300‐Å airglow emissions, due to the conjugate photoelectron flux. The flux is viewed as important not only in its ionospheric and magnetospheric effects, but also as a tool to probe and study related phenomena.