Improvement of IRI profiles of O2(+), NO(+) and O(+) by means of airglow measurements

Conference · Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1984 · Adv. Space Res.; (United States)

OSTI ID:6047790

Serafimov, K B

The possibility of determining the vertical ion distribution of O2(+), NO(+) and O(+) through combined satellite airglow and plasma measurements is determined theoretically. The oxygen airglow lines used in the calculations are the UV oxygen line at 135.6 nm and the red oxygen line near 630 nm. A series of computations is performed in order to predict the emissions characteristic of the airglow in different layers of the ionosphere and in different electron densities. Corrections to the densities of the International Reference Ionosphere model are obtained which are consistent with the airglow at an altitude of 180 km.

• Research Organization: Tsentralna Laboratoriia za Kosmicheski Izsledvaniia, Sofia, Bulgaria
• OSTI ID: 6047790
• Report Number(s): CONF-8308202-
• Journal Information: Adv. Space Res.; (United States), Vol. 4; Conference: COSPAR and international Union of Radio Science workshop on the improved international reference ionosphere, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, 30 Aug 1983
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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IONOSPHERE
ION DENSITY
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AIRGLOW
ELECTRON DENSITY
IONIC COMPOSITION
NITRIC OXIDE
ULTRAVIOLET SPECTRA
CHALCOGENIDES
EARTH ATMOSPHERE
NITROGEN COMPOUNDS
NITROGEN OXIDES
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PLANETARY IONOSPHERES
SPECTRA
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