Physics
Scientific paper
Mar 1973
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1973p%26ss...21..339h&link_type=abstract
Planetary and Space Science, Volume 21, Issue 3, p. 339-348.
Physics
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Scientific paper
Stellar ultraviolet light near 1500 Å is attenuated in the Earth's upper atmosphere due to strong absorption in the Schumann-Runge continuum of molecular oxygen. The intensity of stars in the Schumann-Runge continuum region has been monitored by the University of Wisconsin stellar photometers aboard the OAO-2 satellite during occultation of the star by the Earth's atmosphere. These data have been used to determine the molecular oxygen number density profile at the occultation tangent point. The results of 14 stellar occultations obtained in low and middle latitudes are presented giving the night-time vertical number density profile of molecular oxygen in the 140-200 km region. In general, the measured molecular oxygen number density is about a factor of 2 lower than the number densities predicted by the CIRA 1965 model. Also, the number density at a given height appears to decrease with decreasing solar activity. Measurements taken at low latitudes during the August 1970 geomagnetic storm showed a decrease in the molecular oxygen number density at a given height several days after the peak of the storm followed by a slow recovery to pre-storm densities.
Hays Paul B.
Roble Raymond G.
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