The excitation of the Na airglow from Coqui Dos rocket and ground‐based observations
- 15 February 2000
- journal article
- Published by American Geophysical Union (AGU) in Geophysical Research Letters
- Vol. 27 (4) , 453-456
- https://doi.org/10.1029/1999gl010853
Abstract
On February 20 1998 two rockets were launched from Puerto Rico as part of the Coqui Dos campaign. Data from on‐board photometers and ground‐based data from a Na lidar and an airglow imager allowed an estimate to be made, using both the TIME‐GCM and MSIS models, of the branching coefficient α for the Na airglow emission. Assuming the hydrogen density is within the range predicted by the two models the data are consistent with α being less than 0.05. This value is well below a recent theoretical estimate of 0.67 and also below the nominally accepted value of 0.1 derived from previous aeronomic data.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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