Spectroscopy of the extreme ultraviolet dayglow during active solar conditions

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Dec 1981

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1981georl...8.1242g&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 8, Dec. 1981, p. 1242-1245.

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Dayglow, Extreme Ultraviolet Radiation, Midlatitude Atmosphere, Solar Activity Effects, Ultraviolet Spectra, Ionospheric Electron Density, Ionospheric Sounding, Spectrum Analysis

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The spectral characteristics of the mid-latitude daytime airglow observed between 530 and 1500 A under conditions of high solar activity are compared with those obtained at the same location during markedly lower solar activity. The spectral observations were made by two scanning spectrometers and an N2 3371 A photometer carried aboard Astrobee-F rockets launched from White Sands Missile Range, NM, on January 9, 1978 and June 27, 1980. The more recent data allow the partial resolution of the emission spectrum between 800 and 1200 A into a large number of weak N I, O I and N2 transitions. Data taken at 220 km altitude suggest an increase in atomic nitrogen density of more than a factor of 3 between the two observations, along with a doubling of the solar EUV flux at wavelengths less than 688 A. No evidence of a corresponding increase in the 10 to 50 eV photoelectron flux is found, however, an ionospheric sounding data indicate the peak electron density to have decreased during this period. The mechanism for this electron flux decrease in the face of increased EUV flux and only a three-fold increase in N concentration remains unknown.

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