Aeronomical determination of the efficiency of O 1D) production by dissociative recombination of O 2+
Abstract
Simultaneous measurements of the 6300 Å airglow intensity, the electron density profile, and F-region ion temperatures and vertical ion velocities taken at the Arecibo Observatory in March 1971 are utilized in the height integrated continuity equation to extract the number of photons'of 6300 Å emitted per recombination. After accounting for quenching of O( 1D) and the electrons lost via NO + recombination, the efficiency of O( 1D) production by the dissociative recombination of O 2+ is determined to be 0.6 ± 0.2 including cascading from the O( 1S) state. The uncertainty includes both random measurement errors and estimates of possible systematic errors.
- Publication:
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Planetary and Space Science
- Pub Date:
- February 1977
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0032-0633(77)90019-8
- Bibcode:
- 1977P&SS...25..155C
- Keywords:
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- Aeronomy;
- F Region;
- Nightglow;
- Oxygen Atoms;
- Oxygen Ions;
- Oxygen Recombination;
- Electron Density Profiles;
- Ion Temperature;
- Oxygen Spectra;
- Geophysics