Experimental testing of 'corpuscular' hypothesis of night-time mid-latitude ionosphere - Results of simultaneous rocket-satellite investigations
The objectives of a joint Soviet-American experiment conducted in June 1978 included the intercalibration of instruments, the correlation of Soviet and American methods for measuring corpuscular fluxes, and the measurement of nighttime precipitating electron fluxes under disturbed geomagnetic conditions. On the basis of simultaneous rocket and satellite measurements, it was found that the precipitating electron fluxes with energies above 1 keV may reach values in the range from 0.002 to 0.004 mW/sq m sec sr. Under undisturbed conditions electron fluxes decrease by one or two orders of magnitude. Precipitating electron fluxes may be an important ionization source in the ionospheric nighttime E-region during geomagnetic disturbances.
- Research Organization:
- Gosudarstvennyi Komitet SSSR po Gidrometeorologii i Kontroliu Prirodnoi Sredy, Moscow, USSR
- OSTI ID:
- 5425411
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-8006190-
- Journal Information:
- Adv. Space Res.; (United States), Vol. 1:12; Conference: COSPAR topical meeting on life sciences and space research, Budapest, Hungary, 2 Jun 1980
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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