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The results of an analysis of the possible effect of auroral electron fluxes on the effective recombination coefficient αeff in the ionosphere are presented. It is shown that the αeff value in the E-region of the ionosphere is determined mainly by the physical-chemical properties of the medium. In the F1-layer of the ionosphere, the effective recombination coefficient becomes dependent on both the value of the energy flux and the type of the energy spectrum of the auroral electron flux.
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Original Russian Text © Zh.V. Dashkevich, V.E. Ivanov, 2018, published in Geomagnetizm i Aeronomiya, 2018, Vol. 58, No. 2, pp. 304–308.
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Dashkevich, Z.V., Ivanov, V.E. Effect of Electron Precipitations on the Effective Recombination Coefficient. Geomagn. Aeron. 58, 290–293 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016793218020056
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