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Hodges, R.R. (1993). Collision cross sections and diffusion parameters for H and D in atomic oxygen. Journal of Geophysical Research 98: doi: 10.1029/92JA02606. issn: 0148-0227. |
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Modeling the behavior of H and D in planetary exospheres requires detailed knowledge of the differential scattering cross sections for all of the important neutral-neutral and ion-neutral collision processes affecting these species over their entire ranges of interaction energies. In the upper atmospheres of Earth, Venus, and other planets as well, the interactions of H and D with atomic oxygen determine the rates of diffusion of escaping hydrogen isotopes through the thermosphere, the velocity distributions of exospheric atoms that encounter the upper thermosphere, the lifetimes of exospheric orbiters with periapsides near the exobase, and the transfer of momentum in collisions with hot O. The nature of H-O and D-O collisions and the derivation of a data base consisting of phase shifts and the differential, total, and momentum transfer cross sections for these interactions in the energy range 0.001--10 eV are discussed. Coefficients of mutual diffusion and thermal diffusion factors are calculated for temperatures of planetary interest. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1993 |
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Keywords
Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Thermosphere—composition and chemistry, Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics, Thermospheric dynamics, Planetology, Comets and Small Bodies, Atmospheric and ionospheric composition and chemistry |
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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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