Analyses of atomic oxygen, the green line, and Herzberg bands in the lower thermosphere

Details Analyses of atomic oxygen, the green line, and Herzberg bands in the lower thermosphere Analyses of atomic oxygen, the green line, and Herzberg bands in the lower thermosphere

Jan 1981

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1981jgr....86..206t&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 86, Jan. 1, 1981, p. 206-210.

Physics

Atomic Physics

57

Airglow, Atmospheric Composition, Herzberg Bands, Oxygen Atoms, Thermosphere, Visible Spectrum, Chapman-Enskog Theory, Gas Density, Night Sky, Quenching (Atomic Physics)

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Measured altitude profiles of atomic oxygen, 557.7-nm emissions, and Herzberg I emission between 80 and 120 km were used to test the proposed mechanisms leading to these emissions. As generally assumed, the O2(A 3 Sigma u +) that emits the Herzberg I bands is excited by three-body recombination of atomic oxygen. The quenching of this state is by N2 or O2; for N2 the lifetime times the rate is 2.75 x 10 to the -13th per cu cm; other quenchers are insignificant. It is found that the atomic oxygen O(1S) emitting the green line is excited by the Barth mechanism.

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