Airglow Calculations for Remote Sensing of Density

Roger A. Van Tassel

1978 թ. հնվ · Air Force Geophysics Laboratory, Air Force Systems Command, United States Air Force

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An instrument to remotely determine neutral density profiles in the lower thermosphere has been developed. The instrument observes ultraviolet airglow profiles in two bands: the 3371 A band for nitrogen and the 1356 A band for atomic oxygen to infer atmospheric density. Calculations of the intensities of these emissions have been made using the recent computations of energy dependent photoelectron fluxes and experimental determinations of the excitation cross section.