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Torr 1979
Torr, D.G. (1979). Refinement of the aeronomically determined rate coefficient for the reaction of N2+ with O. Journal of Geophysical Research 84: doi: 10.1029/JA084iA05p01939. issn: 0148-0227.

An earlier aeronomic determination of the rate coefficient for the reaction N2++Ok1,NO1+N using Atmosphere Explorer data indicated a small increase in k1 with ion temperature, contrary to laboratory observations. This was incorrectly attributed to neglect of an increase in the N2 1 recombination rate with vibrational excitation. Recent aeronomical results have shown that the rate coefficient for charge exchange of O1(2D) with N2 is about an order of magnitude smaller at thermal temperatures than at energies greater than 0. eV (i.e. energies at which laboratory measurements have been made). It is shown that the use of the smaller charge exchange rate coefficient coupled with recent results on N2 quenching of O1(2D) yields a temperature dependence in excellent agreement with the labortory results for k1.

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