Published May 15, 2012 | Version v1
Journal article

Effective electron recombination coefficient in ionospheric D-region during the relaxation regime after solar flare from February 18, 2011

  • 1. Institute of Physics, University of Belgrade, P.O. Box 57, Belgrade (Serbia)
  • 2. Astronomical Observatory, Volgina 7, 11060 Belgrade (Serbia)
  • 3. Faculty of Ecology and Environmental Protection, Union – Nikola Tesla University, Cara Dušana 62, 11000 Belgrade (Serbia)
  • 4. University of Nova Gorica, Vipavska 13, Rona Dolina, SI-5000 Nova Gorica (Slovenia)

Description

In this paper, we present a model for determination of a weakly time dependent effective recombination coefficient for the perturbed terrestrial ionospheric D-region plasma. We study consequences of a class M1.0 X-ray solar flare, recorded by GOES-15 satellite on February 18, 2011 between 14:00 and 14:15 UT, by analyzing the amplitude and phase real time variations of very low frequency (VLF) radio waves emitted by transmitter DHO (located in Germany) at frequency 23.4 kHz and recorded by the AWESOME receiver in Belgrade (Serbia). Our analysis is limited to ionospheric perturbations localized at altitudes around 70 km where the dominant electron gain and electron loss processes are the photo-ionization and recombination, respectively.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2011.10.026

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nimb.2011.10.026;
arXiv
arXiv:1204.4309v1;
PII
S0168-583X(11)00965-7;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section B, Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
Journal Volume
279
Journal Page Range
p. 106-109
ISSN
0168-583X
CODEN
NIMBEU

Conference

Title
5. international conference on elementary processes in atomic systems
Dates
21-25 Jun 2011
Place
Belgrade (Serbia)

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