Effects of precipitating electrons in the ionosphere
As early as 1896, around the time of the discovery of the electron by J.J. Thompson, Birkeland was led to propose that aurorae were caused by fast moving electrons or similarly charged particles emitted by the sun and 'sucked in towards' the auroral zones by the geomagnetic field. He later...
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Rhodes University
1974
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012220 |