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Published May 1997 | Version public
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Calculated Hydroxil A^2∑ → X^2Π (0,0) band emission rate factors applicable to atmospheric spectroscopy

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  • 1. ROR icon Jet Propulsion Lab
  • 2. ROR icon University of California, Berkeley
  • 3. ROR icon California Institute of Technology
  • 4. ROR icon Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Abstract

A calculation of the A^2∑ → X^2Π (0, 0) band emission rate factors and line center absorption cross sections of OH applicable to its measurement using solar resonant fluorescence in the terrestrial atmosphere is presented in this paper. The most accurate available line parameters have been used. Special consideration has been given to the solar input flux because of its highly structured Fraunhofer spectrum. The calculation for the OH atmospheric emission rate factor in the solar resonant fluorescent case is described in detail with examples and intermediate results. Results of this calculation of OH emission rate factors for individual rotational lines are, on average, 30% lower than the values obtained in an earlier work.

Additional Information

© 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd. Received 26 February 1996; received for publication 3 June 1996. The authors would like to thank Xiaolei Zhu for his efforts in refining the program coding, Drs William Sharp and Randall Friedl for their support, helpful comments, and discussions refining the scope of this paper, and Drs Gary Rottman and Robert Kurucz for illuminating discussions on the solar near ultraviolet spectra. This work was supported by NASA Sounding Rocket Flight Program grant NGR 23-005-36, NASA Graduate Student Researcher's Grant NGT-50010, NASA grant NAGW-2204, a California Institute of Technology Summer Undergraduate Researcher Fund grant and President's Fund grant, and a Jet Propulsion Laboratory Director's Discretionary Fund grant.

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48674
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NASA
NGR 23-005-36
NASA
NGT-50010
NASA
NAGW-2204
Caltech Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
Caltech President's Fund
JPL Director's Discretionary Fund

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