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Mechanism for the Auroral Emission of OI (6300 Å)

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VARIOUS mechanisms have been proposed to explain the selectively enhanced emission of OI (6300 Å) from the auroral latitudes of the F region of the ionosphere. We discuss the enhanced OI emission in terms of a reaction between the major ion O+ and the most abundant neutral constituent (O atoms) of the ionosphere at an altitude of about 400 km.

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  1. Douglas Advanced Research Laboratories, Huntington Beach, California

    P. MAHADEVAN

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    FRANKLIN E. ROACH

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MAHADEVAN, P., ROACH, F. Mechanism for the Auroral Emission of OI (6300 Å). Nature 220, 150–152 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/220150b0

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