On 21 August 2017, during 16:49 UT and 20:02 UT period, a total solar eclipse started. The totality shadow occurred over the United States in time between ~17:15 UT and ~18:47 UT. When the solar radiation is blocked by the moon, observations of the ionospheric parameters will be important in the space weather community. Fortunately, during this eclipse, two Swarm satellites (A and C) flied at about 445 km through lunar penumbra at local noon of United States in the upper ionosphere. In this work, we investigate the effect of the solar eclipse on electron density, slant total electron content (STEC) and electron temperature using data from Swarm mission over United States. We use calibrated measurements of plasma density and electron temperature. Our results indicate that: (1) the electron density and STEC have a significant depletion associated with the eclipse; which could be due to dominance of dissociative recombination over photoionization caused by the reduction of ionizing extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation during the eclipse time (2) the electron temperature decreases, compared with a reference day, by up to ~150 K; which could be due to the decrease in photoelectron heating from reduced photoionization.

1. INTRODUCTION
2. DATA SETS
3. OBSERVATIONS AND DISCUSSION
4. CONCLUSION
REFERENCES

• Fayrouz Hussien(Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Fayoum University)
• Essam Ghamry(National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics (NRIAG),International Center for Space Weather Science and Education, Kyushu University) Corresponding Author
• Adel Fathy(Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Fayoum University)
• Salah Mahrous(Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Fayoum University)