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Far ultraviolet nighttime ionospheric photometer

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Far Ultraviolet Nighttime Ionopsheric Photometer (FNIP) is a newly-designed instrument for low earth orbit missions, observing the earth night airglow nadir at OI 135.6 nm emission produced by ionospheric O++e recombination and receiving the horizontal information on nighttime ionosphere with a spatial resolution of about 1.6∘×3.8∘. This simple, highly robust instrument excludes OI 130.4 nm emission and Herzberg oxygen bands with lower power and approximately achieves a sensitivity of about 400 counts/s/Rayleigh at 135.6 nm with stray light less than 2 %. Some tests of the instrument have been conducted and the results will be discussed in the end.

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Thanks to Prof. Bincheng Li from the Institute of Optics and Electronics, CAS for supplying the multilayer coatings on the offset parabolic mirror.

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  1. Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P.R. China

    Liping Fu, Ruyi Peng, Entao Shi, Jilong Peng, Tianfang Wang, Fang Jiang, Nan Jia, Xiaoyin Li & Yongmei Wang

  2. Graduate University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, P.R. China

    Ruyi Peng & Tianfang Wang

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Fu, L., Peng, R., Shi, E. et al. Far ultraviolet nighttime ionospheric photometer. Astrophys Space Sci 355, 1–7 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10509-014-2139-9

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