An analysis is conducted of the orbital decay of the Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) satellite in order to develop an empirical model of the solar radio flux at 10.7 cm and of the exospheric temperature driving current atmospheric-density models at high radio fluxes. The Jacchia-Lineberry (1982) atmospheric model is used to fit a set of orbit semimajor axis observations to a predicted set whose only free variable was the exospheric temperature. A comparison of the exospheric temperatures with those predicted by the Jacchia (1977) model indicates increasing divergences above 1100 K, suggesting needed modifications to the model.


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    Title :

    Exospheric temperatures during solar cycle 22


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    Publication date :

    1990-09-01



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    Miscellaneous


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    English


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