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Enhanced airglow, electron acceleration, and parametric instabilities
Author(s) -
Weinstock J.
Publication year - 1974
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 - 10.1029/rs009i011p01085
Subject(s) - airglow , electron , ionosphere , acceleration , physics , instability , atomic physics , excited state , plasma , flux (metallurgy) , parametric statistics , computational physics , atmospheric sciences , geophysics , materials science , mechanics , classical mechanics , nuclear physics , mathematics , statistics , metallurgy
A calculation is made of the acceleration of electrons during ionospheric modification experiments. The electrons are accelerated by Langmuir waves excited unstable by the parametric instability. This calculation results in an electron flux of about 10 9 cm −2 sec −1 for conditions over Boulder, and is sufficient to explain observations or airglow enhancements.