Solar System Laboratory Aeronomy by Electron Impact with Emphasis on Terrestrial Processes

这项工作将实验室天体物理学与基本速率过程模型相结合，以便为大气学和行星大气社区提供一种广泛适用的研究方法。该研究项目将：1)研究控制以原子氧为主的高层热层的热性质的物理化学，2)建立对大气学最重要的物种的速率过程的准确模型，尽可能利用每个过程的实验量和理论量的组合，以及3)建立测量原子氮电子碰撞截面的实验设计，并附带N和N+的原子模型。

This work combines laboratory astrophysics with basic rate process models in order to provide a broadly applicable research methodology for the aeronomy and planetary atmospheres community. The research project will: 1) investigate the physical chemistry controlling the thermal properties of the atomic oxygen dominated upper thermosphere, 2) establish accurate models of rate processes for species of primary importance to aeronomy, utilizing wherever possible, a combination of experimental and theoretical quantities for each process, and 3) establish an experimental design for the measurement of atomic nitrogen electron impact cross sections, with an accompanying atomic model for both N and N+.