Titan airglow spectra from Cassini Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph (UVIS): EUV analysis

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Dec 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007georl..3424204a&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 34, Issue 24, CiteID L24204

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Planetary Sciences: Solar System Objects: Titan, Planetary Sciences: Comets And Small Bodies: Aurorae, Airglow, And X-Ray Emission, Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Airglow And Aurora

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We present the first UV airglow observations of Titan's atmosphere by the Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph (UVIS) on Cassini. Using one spectral channel in the EUV from 561-1182 Å and one in the FUV from 1115-1913 Å, UVIS observed the disk on 13 December, 2004 at low solar activity. The EUV spectrum consists of three band systems of N2 (b 1∏u, b' 1∑u +, c4' 1∑u + -> X 1∑g +), while the FUV spectrum consists of one (a 1∏g -> X 1∑g +). Both the EUV and FUV spectra contain many N I and N II multiplets that are produced primarily by photodissociative ionization. Spectral intensities of the N2 c4' 1∑u +(v' = 0) -> X 1∑g +(v'' = 0-2) progression from 950-1010 Å are resolved for the first time. The UVIS observations reveal that the c4' 1∑u +(0) -> X 1∑g + (0) vibrational band near 958 Å is weak and undetectable, and that N I multiplets near 953.2 and 964.5 Å are present instead. Magnetospheric particle excitation may be weak or sporadic, since the nightside EUV spectrum on this orbit shows no observable nitrogen emission features and only H Ly-β.

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