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The results of the satellite low-latitude and mid-latitude measurements of the disturbed plasma concentration, electron temperature, and quasi-stable electric field at heights of ∼900 km after sunset are discussed. It is shown that the sharp fronts of changes in the electron temperature and plasma density observed in the experiment onboard the Intercosmos-Bulgaria-1300 satellite in the low-latitude (and equatorial) outer ionosphere can be related to damping of the oscillations of plasma electrons at local decreases of the plasma density (plasma “pits”) and formation of the vortex plasma structures at density and temperature gradients, which promotes conservation of ionosphere irregularities and makes the fronts of concentration variations steeper. Nonmonotonic variations in the plasma conductivity for the ionosphere currents in unstable plasma can be a cause of observed nonmonotonic disturbances of the vertical component of the “constant” electric field.
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Original Russian Text © G.L. Gdalevich, N.I. Izhovkina, V.D. Ozerov, N.Bankov, S. Chapkanov, L. Todorieva, 2006, published in Kosmicheskie Issledovaniya, 2006, Vol. 44, No. 5, pp. 438–443.
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Gdalevich, G.L., Izhovkina, N.I., Ozerov, V.D. et al. Plasma irregularities in unstable outer ionosphere according to the Intercosmos-Bulgaria-1300 satellite data. Cosmic Res 44, 419–424 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0010952506050054
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