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Richards, P.G., Hickey, M.P. and Torr, D.G. (1994). New sources for the hot oxygen geocorona. Geophysical Research Letters 21: doi: 10.1029/94GL00561. issn: 0094-8276. |
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This paper investigates new sources of thermospheric non thermal (hot) oxygen due to exothermic reactions involving numerous minor (ion and neutral) and metastable species. Numerical calculations are performed for low latitude, daytime, winter conditions, with moderately high solar activity and low magnetic activity. Under these conditions we find that the quenching of metastable species are a significant source of hot oxygen, with kinetic energy production rates a factor of ten higher than those due to previously considered O+2 and NO+ dissociative recombination reactions. Some of the most significant new sources of hot oxygen are reactions involving quenching of O+(2D), O(1D), N(2D), O+(2P) and vibrationally excited N2 by atomic oxygen. |
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Keywords
Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Pressure, density, and temperature, Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Thermosphere—composition and chemistry, Ionosphere, Ion chemistry and composition |
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American Geophysical Union 2000 Florida Avenue N.W. Washington, D.C. 20009-1277 USA 1-202-462-6900 1-202-328-0566 service@agu.org |
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