Oxygen emissions in the night airglow of the earth, Venus and Mars

Physics – Atomic Physics

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Earth Atmosphere, Emission Spectra, Mars Atmosphere, Nightglow, Oxygen Spectra, Venus Atmosphere, Airglow, Atomic Excitations, Atomic Recombination, Energy Transfer, Metastable State, Oxygen Recombination, Quenching (Atomic Physics), Vertical Distribution

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Airglow data are analyzed to obtain a set of excitation, energy transfer and quenching reactions and their rate coefficients. To reduce the number of reactions a restriction is imposed on the reactions proceeding via planar collisional complexes with all reactants and products in Σ or S states. The airglow altitude profiles measured can be explained by the excitation of five metastable O2 states and O(1S) via a common precursor having the ratio of the rate coefficient of quenching by O to that by O2 equal to 5. Only O2(2πg) satisfies all constraints imposed on this precursor.

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