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Title: Vacuum-ultraviolet instrumentation for solar irradiance and thermospheric airglow

Abstract

A NASA sounding rocket experiment was developed to study the solar extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) spectral irradiance and its effect on the upper atmosphere. Both the solar flux and the terrestrial molecular nitrogen via the Lyman-Birge-Hopfield bands in the far-ultraviolet (FUV) region were measured remotely from a sounding rocket on October 27, 1992. The rocket experiments also includes EUV instruments from Boston University, but only the National Center for Atmospheric Research's (NCAR)/University of Colorado's (CU) four solar instruments and one airglow instrument are discussed. The primary solar EUV instrument is a 0.25-m Rowland circle EUV spectrograph that has flown on three rockets since 1988 measuring the solar spectral irradiance from 30 to 110 nm with 0.2-nm resolution. Another solar irradiance instrument is an array of six silicon soft x-ray (XUV) photodiodes, each having different metallic filters coated directly on the photodiodes. The other solar irradiance instrument is a silicon avalanche photodiode coupled with pulse height analyzer electronics. The fourth solar instrument is a XUV imager that images the sun at 17.5 nm with a spatial resolution of 20 arc sec. The airglow spectrograph measures the terrestrial FUV airglow emissions along the horizon from 125 to 160 nm with 0.2-nm spectral resolution.

Authors:
;  [1]; ;  [2]
  1. National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO (United States). High Altitude Observatory
  2. Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States). Lab. for Atmospheric and Space Physics
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
5094645
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Optical Engineering; (United States)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 33:2; Journal ID: ISSN 0091-3286
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; AIRGLOW; REMOTE SENSING; SOLAR FLUX; ENERGY TRANSFER; EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; IONOSPHERE; SOFT X RADIATION; SOLAR CYCLE; SOLAR RADIATION; THERMOSPHERE; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; IONIZING RADIATIONS; PLANETARY IONOSPHERES; RADIATIONS; STELLAR RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; X RADIATION; 661320* - Auroral, Ionospheric, & Magnetospheric Phenomena- (1992-)

Citation Formats

Woods, T N, Rottman, G J, Bailey, S M, and Solomon, S C. Vacuum-ultraviolet instrumentation for solar irradiance and thermospheric airglow. United States: N. p., 1994. Web.
Woods, T N, Rottman, G J, Bailey, S M, & Solomon, S C. Vacuum-ultraviolet instrumentation for solar irradiance and thermospheric airglow. United States.
Woods, T N, Rottman, G J, Bailey, S M, and Solomon, S C. 1994. "Vacuum-ultraviolet instrumentation for solar irradiance and thermospheric airglow". United States.
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title = {Vacuum-ultraviolet instrumentation for solar irradiance and thermospheric airglow},
author = {Woods, T N and Rottman, G J and Bailey, S M and Solomon, S C},
abstractNote = {A NASA sounding rocket experiment was developed to study the solar extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) spectral irradiance and its effect on the upper atmosphere. Both the solar flux and the terrestrial molecular nitrogen via the Lyman-Birge-Hopfield bands in the far-ultraviolet (FUV) region were measured remotely from a sounding rocket on October 27, 1992. The rocket experiments also includes EUV instruments from Boston University, but only the National Center for Atmospheric Research's (NCAR)/University of Colorado's (CU) four solar instruments and one airglow instrument are discussed. The primary solar EUV instrument is a 0.25-m Rowland circle EUV spectrograph that has flown on three rockets since 1988 measuring the solar spectral irradiance from 30 to 110 nm with 0.2-nm resolution. Another solar irradiance instrument is an array of six silicon soft x-ray (XUV) photodiodes, each having different metallic filters coated directly on the photodiodes. The other solar irradiance instrument is a silicon avalanche photodiode coupled with pulse height analyzer electronics. The fourth solar instrument is a XUV imager that images the sun at 17.5 nm with a spatial resolution of 20 arc sec. The airglow spectrograph measures the terrestrial FUV airglow emissions along the horizon from 125 to 160 nm with 0.2-nm spectral resolution.},
doi = {},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5094645}, journal = {Optical Engineering; (United States)},
issn = {0091-3286},
number = ,
volume = 33:2,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 1994},
month = {Tue Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 1994}
}