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It has been shown in principle that technogenic particles moving in the nighttime polar ionosphere can be electrically charged to low negative potentials of about -(10-100) V if they fall into a flux of auroral electrons. Based on trajectory calculations, it has been found that the electric charging in an auroral flux substantially affects the orbital dynamics of microparticles with a radius of ∼1 μm in the case of low values of the ambient plasma density (∼10 cm-3). This action appears as a transformation of the initial circular orbit of a microparticle into an elliptical orbit and leads to an increase in the particle's lifetime on its orbit in near-Earth space (if the charging occurs in the northern auroral oval).
| Original language | Russian |
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| Pages (from-to) | 230-234 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Geomagnetism and Aeronomy |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| State | Published - 2001 |
ID: 85551068