Nightglow emissions from oxygen in the lower thermosphere

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Feb 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992p%26ss...40..211b&link_type=abstract

Planetary and Space Science (ISSN 0032-0633), vol. 40, Feb.-Mar. 1992, p. 211-221.

Physics

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Emission Spectra, Nightglow, Oxygen Atoms, Oxygen Spectra, Thermosphere, F Region, Line Spectra, Molecular Excitation

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Theoretical and experimental information available on the relevant radiative transition probabilities (A) of the atomic-oxygen forbidden lines in the lower thermosphere is summarized, together that on the rate coefficients for quenching by atomic and molecular oxygen. It is shown that the measured volume-emission-rate altitude profile of the Herzberg I system can be reproduced by using the expected rate coefficient for the production of O2(A 3Sigma-sub u (+)) by termolecular association and the rate coefficients for quenching by atomic and molecular oxygen that agree with laboratory evidence. The termolecular association does not contribute directly to the atmospheric system. The dependencies of A(Ch) and A(HzIII) on temperature are calculated.

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