Forbidden Line Radiation Cooling of High Altitude Plasmas.
Abstract
Time dependent rate equations describing electron impact excitation (and Deexcitation) of and forbidden line radiation from ionospheric constituents have been integrated to obtain excited state population densities, radiation rates, ion and electron temperatures, and energy partitions as a function of time. Radiations from low-lying metastable states of oxygen and nitrogen ions, oxygen and nitrogen atoms, and molecular oxygen excited by electrons in the one eV energy range have been computed for plasma compositions characteristics of selected high altitude nuclear explosions. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 19, 1982
- Accession Number
- ADA131266
Entities
People
- W. W. White