Modeling the Earth’s Nightglow Intensity of the Chamberlain and Herzberg I Bands and Comparing the Calculation Results with the Experimental Data

The calculations of volume intensity profiles of the Earth’s nightglow of the Chamberlain and Herzberg I bands of molecular oxygen are given. The calculations of glow intensities of the Chamberlain and Herzberg I bands are compared with the experimental data obtained from the Discovery Space Shuttle...

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Published inGeomagnetism and Aeronomy Vol. 62; no. 5; pp. 614 - 622
Main Authors Antonenko, O. V., Kirillov, A. S.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Moscow Pleiades Publishing 01.10.2022
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Earth and Environmental Science
Earth Sciences
Experimental data
Geophysics/Geodesy
Nightglow
Oxygen
Space shuttles
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Summary:The calculations of volume intensity profiles of the Earth’s nightglow of the Chamberlain and Herzberg I bands of molecular oxygen are given. The calculations of glow intensities of the Chamberlain and Herzberg I bands are compared with the experimental data obtained from the Discovery Space Shuttle (STS-53) and from the EbertFastie spectrograph (Kitt Peak National Observatory, USA, Arizona). It is shown that the best agreement between the calculation results and experimental data is observed when correcting the quantum yields of the vibrational levels A' 3 Δ u and of the molecular oxygen states under triple collisions.
ISSN:0016-7932
1555-645X
0016-7940
DOI:10.1134/S001679322204003X