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Modeling the Earth’s Nightglow Intensity of the Chamberlain and Herzberg I Bands and Comparing the Calculation Results with the Experimental Data

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The calculations of volume intensity profiles of the Earth’s nightglow of the Chamberlain and Herzberg I bands of molecular oxygen are given. The calculations of glow intensities of the Chamberlain and Herzberg I bands are compared with the experimental data obtained from the Discovery Space Shuttle (STS-53) and from the EbertFastie spectrograph (Kitt Peak National Observatory, USA, Arizona). It is shown that the best agreement between the calculation results and experimental data is observed when correcting the quantum yields of the vibrational levels A'3Δu and \({{{\text{A}}}^{3}}\Sigma _{{\text{u}}}^{ + }\) of the molecular oxygen states under triple collisions.

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Antonenko, O.V., Kirillov, A.S. Modeling the Earth’s Nightglow Intensity of the Chamberlain and Herzberg I Bands and Comparing the Calculation Results with the Experimental Data. Geomagn. Aeron. 62, 614–622 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S001679322204003X

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