Atomic oxygen emission at 63 microns as a cooling mechanism in the thermosphere and ionosphere

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Dec 1978

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1978natur.276..594g&link_type=abstract

Nature, vol. 276, Dec. 7, 1978, p. 594, 595.

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Atmospheric Radiation, Ionospheric Sounding, Oxygen Atoms, Oxygen Spectra, Radiant Cooling, Rocket-Borne Instruments, Thermosphere, Far Infrared Radiation, Fine Structure, Infrared Spectrometers, Optical Emission Spectroscopy, Rocket Sounding

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A spectrometer launched aboard a Skylark 7 rocket was used to measure the atomic oxygen 63-micron emission profile at thermospheric altitudes (90-180 km). The data are compared with a model calculation by Kockarts and Peetermans (1970) and curves for a non-LTE distribution of fine structure level densities are calculated; an energy-averaged quenching cross section for the O(3P1) level is deduced. The importance of the 63-micron emission as a cooling process for both the neutral thermosphere and the ionosphere is much less than had been predicted on the basis of theory.

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