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Artificial aurora conjugate to a rocket-borne electron acceleratorAn accelerator intended to send electron beams upward along an L = 1.24 magnetic field line was flown from a rocket launched from Kauai, Hawaii, on October 15, 1972. Though the intent was to produce several hundred observable auroral streaks in the Southern Hemisphere, imaging instruments operated there aboard jet aircraft detected only a single aurora. Produced by a 0.155-A beam of energy 22.8 keV, the aurora was of expected brightness and had a diameter (210 + or - 50 m) somewhat larger than expected and an altitude (top 116 + or - 2 km; bottom 92 + or - 2 km) higher than expected.
Document ID
19800048531
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Davis, T. N.
(Alaska Univ. Fairbanks, AK, United States)
Wescott, E. M.
(Alaska Univ. Fairbanks, AK, United States)
Hallinan, T. J.
(Alaska Univ. Fairbanks, AK, United States)
Stenbaek-Nielsen, H. C.
(Alaska, University Fairbanks, Alaska, United States)
Hess, W. N.
(NOAA, Research Laboratories, Boulder Colo., United States)
Trichel, M. C.
(NASA Johnson Space Center Houston, Tex., United States)
Maier, E. J. R.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, Md., United States)
Date Acquired
August 10, 2013
Publication Date
April 1, 1980
Publication Information
Publication: Journal of Geophysical Research
Volume: 85
Subject Category
Geophysics
Accession Number
80A32701
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NSG-6014
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAS9-11815
CONTRACT_GRANT: NGL-02-001-087
Distribution Limits
Public
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