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Strong electron precipitation fluxes are frequently accompanied by strong downward heat conduction fluxes, deduced from simultaneous high and low altitude electron temperature measurements. It is shown that the heat input due to beam‐plasma interactions is of the correct order of magnitude to sustain the observed heat flux.
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Ernest G. Fontheim (1975) studied this question.
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