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Gustavsson et al. 2002

Gustavsson, B., Brändström, B.U.E., Steen, Å., Sergienko, T., Leyser, T.B., Rietveld, M.T., Aso, T. and Ejiri, M. (2002). Nearly simultaneous images of HF-pump enhanced airglow at 6300 Å and 5577 Å. Geophysical Research Letters 29: doi: 10.1029/2002GL015350. issn: 0094-8276.

This report presents nearly simultaneous images of HF-pump enhanced airglow at 6300 ¿ and 5577 ¿ caused by HF radio wave pumping in the ionosphere from the EISCAT-Heating facility. The images show co-located enhancements implying that there are O(1D) and O(1S) emissions from the ionospheric F region. The maximum enhancement in 6300 ¿ is 50--60 Rayleighs and the maximum enhancement in 5577 ¿ is 10--20 Rayleighs for five different HF-pump pulses. The 5577 to 6300 ¿ intensity ratio of 0.3--0.4 implies that the excitation is caused by a nonthermal electron population.

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Keywords
Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Aerosols and particles (0345, 4801), Ionosphere, Active experiments, Radio Science, Ionospheric physics, Ionosphere, Particle acceleration, Ionosphere, Ionosphere/atmosphere interactions

Journal
Geophysical Research Letters
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American Geophysical Union
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