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A method of recording internal gravitational waves (IGWs) from spacecraft by observing disturbances in the atmospheric emission layer, formed in the vicinity of the solar terminator and emitted in the atmospheric molecular oxygen system (762 ± 5 nm), is considered. The possibility of such observations and the efficiency of recording various characteristics of IGWs passing through the observed emission layer are estimated.
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Original Russian Text © M.A. Poluarshinov, 2014, published in Geomagnetizm i Aeronomiya, 2014, Vol. 54, No. 6, pp. 842–850.
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Poluarshinov, M.A. Model estimations of wave disturbances of the emission layer’s luminosity as recorded from spacecraft in the vicinity of the solar terminator. Geomagn. Aeron. 54, 849–857 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016793214050144
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