| タイトル | Spacelab 2 Upper Atmospheric Modification Experiment over Arecibo. II - Plasma dynamics |
| 著者（英） | Sulzer, M. P.; Kelly, M. C.; Bernhardt, P. A.; Noble, S. T.; Swartz, W. E. |
| 著者所属（英） | Rice Univ.|Cornell Univ.|Arecibo Ionospheric Observatory|Los Alamos National Lab. |
| 発行日 | 1988-01-01 |
| 言語 | eng |
| 内容記述 | Results are presented from an experiment performed on Spacelab 2 over Arecibo to study the neutral gas dynamics of supersonic flows in a rarefield atmosphere and to modify the plasma density by releasing chemically reactive vapors. Exhaust vapor was released at an altitude of 317 km, where the plasma density was 300,000/cu cm. Observations were made with high resolution incoherent scatter radar. A localized depletion formed in the ionosphere. The depletion fell and eventually disappeared within the bottomside F-region ionosphere. The dynamics of the evolution of the depletion are discussed. Optical and radar data are compared, setting an upper limit of 3 percent for the branching ratio to produce O(D-1) from dissociative recombination of CO(2+) and electrons. |
| NASA分類 | GEOPHYSICS |
| レポートNO | 89A38897 |
| 権利 | Copyright |
| URI | https://repository.exst.jaxa.jp/dspace/handle/a-is/363512 |
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