The transverse acceleration of ionospheric ions during collisions with traveling irregularities
Abstract
The statistical Fermi mechanism is proposed for the transverse acceleration of ions in the ionosphere and magnetosphere during collisions with traveling electric-field and magnetic-field irregularities extended along the geomagnetic field. The efficiency of O(+)-ion acceleration is examined, and the possibility that the proposed mechanism may explain certain experimental findings is discussed.
- Publication:
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Geomagnetism and Aeronomy
- Pub Date:
- October 1983
- Bibcode:
- 1983Ge&Ae..23..745A
- Keywords:
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- Ionospheric Ion Density;
- Magnetic Disturbances;
- Magnetospheric Instability;
- Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances;
- Electromagnetic Acceleration;
- Ionic Collisions;
- Ionospheric Currents;
- Oxygen Ions;
- Plasma Acceleration;
- Quantum Statistics;
- Transverse Acceleration;
- Upper Ionosphere;
- Geophysics