William E. Sharp

TL;DR: The results of a coordinated auroral experiment involving the Atmosphere Explorer C satellite and a sounding rocket are reported in this article, where the coordinated measurements are used to infer vertical fluxes of ionization and of electron thermal energy at high altitudes.

TL;DR: The results of Srivastava et al. as discussed by the authors are in agreement within the experimental uncertainties above 10 eV, but not for results above 7 eV. But they are not in agreement with those results derived from transport coefficients.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measured the ultraviolet spectrum of an aurora with a spectrometer that was carried by a rocket into an IBC I+ aurora and derived the volume emission rate profile of the Vegard-Kaplan system.

TL;DR: In this paper, a volume emission rate profile derived after sunset requires the production of an O(¹S) atom in 8% of the O2+ recombinations in the dayglow.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the source of O(1D) atoms in the auroral ionosphere using sounding rocket data and suggested that the atom-atom interchange reaction of N(2D) with O2 can be the major source of auroral 6300 A emission if O( 1D) is created with high efficiency.