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Yamazaki et al. 2002
Yamazaki, A., Tashiro, S., Nakasaka, Y., Yoshikawa, I., Miyake, W. and Nakamura, M. (2002). Sounding-rocket observation of O II 83.4-nm emission over the polar ionosphere. Geophysical Research Letters 29: doi: 10.1029/2002GL014788. issn: 0094-8276.

Results of recent satellite observations indicate that a large amount of O+ are escaping from the terrestrial ionosphere into the magnetosphere. However, either the global distribution or the temporal variation of such O+ escape has not been understood well yet. A 2-Dimensional observation of oxygen ion emission (e.g., O II 83.4 nm) provides crucial information on the oxygen escape processes. In order to establish the basic technology required for such a 2-D (i.e., imaging) observation, we have developed an eXtreme Ultra-Violet (XUV) sensor sensitive to the O II 83.4-nm emission. In this study we present recent results of the observation of O+ ion escape from the ionosphere in the polar cap region using our XUV sensor carried by the sounding rocket SS-520-2. The XUV sensor successfully obtained an altitudinal profile of the intensity of the O II emission from 150 km through 1100 km of altitudes and detected 5--6 Rayleighs of the O II emission from the uppermost part of the ionosphere. The observation suggests that O+ ions convected from the cusp/cleft region exist over the polar ionosphere.

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Keywords
Ionosphere, Topside ionosphere, Ionosphere, Particle acceleration, Ionosphere, Polar cap ionosphere, General or Miscellaneous, Instruments useful in three or more fields, Magnetospheric Physics, Magnetosphere/ionosphere interactions
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Geophysical Research Letters
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