Emission line shapes produced by dissociative excitation of atmospheric gases

Details Emission line shapes produced by dissociative excitation of atmospheric gases Emission line shapes produced by dissociative excitation of atmospheric gases

Aug 1980

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980p%26ss...28..859z&link_type=abstract

Planetary and Space Science, vol. 28, Aug. 1980, p. 859-866.

Physics

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Atmospheric Physics, Atomic Excitations, Emission Spectra, Line Shape, Line Spectra, Oxygen Atoms, Carbon Monoxide, Doppler Effect, Electron Energy, Spectral Line Width

Scientific paper

The spectral line shapes of the radiation emitted from O atoms produced by the dissociative excitation of O2, CO, CO2 and NO are investigated. Doppler line shapes are derived from time-of-flight spectra of O (5S0) atoms decaying by the emission of 1356-A radiation after being produced in electron impact experiments at incident electron energies from 25 to 300 eV. It is shown that the effective line width of the radiation is large compared with the Doppler absorption widths of ambient O atoms in both photoelectron and auroral excitation, and thus the dissociatively excited component of the O I 1304-A airglow will behave as though it were optically thin, exhibiting pronounced limb brightening effects and a scale height characteristic of the initial, local source function. It is found that the average kinetic energy of the dissociation fragments inferred from O I (5S) time-of-flight spectra is in good agreement with that of O I (3S) atoms in the electron impact dissociation of CO2, although not for O2. Finally, it is suggested that although electron impact dissociation of CO and CO2 contributes to the 1304-A emission in the upper atmosphere of Venus, it cannot be the dominant source of this radiation since the absolute cross sections for the reaction are too small.

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