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Murphree & Anger 1978
Murphree, J.S. and Anger, C.D. (1978). Instantaneous auroral particle energy deposition as determined by optical emissions. Geophysical Research Letters 5: doi: 10.1029/GL005i006p00551. issn: 0094-8276.

Remote sensing of the N+2 ING 3914¿ auroral emission using data from the Auroral Scanning Photometer onboard the ISIS-2 satellite is employed to determine the energy deposition rate of auroral particles. Techniques have been developed for removing the effects of ground albedo and for obtaining integrated intensities even when the emission region is visible only at the earth's limb. Data from 9 northern hemisphere passes have been selected to illustrate the variation in energy deposition rate with magnetic activity. Measured photon flux rates (photons sec-1 deg-1 of longitude) vary from ~2¿1022 to 1.9¿1025. The peak photon flux for a given pass can occur at magnetic local times varying from 21 to 05 hours. The inferred range of global energy deposition rates (for electron energies 30 eV and above) is 4¿1016 to 1¿1019 ergs sec-1.

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