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Chakrabarti, S., Sasseen, T.P., Lampton, M. and Bowyer, S. (1993). Observations of terrestrial far UV emissions by the Faust Telescope. Geophysical Research Letters 20: doi: 10.1029/93GL00092. issn: 0094-8276. |
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The FAUST telescope was developed to provide precise photometry of extended astronomical objects in the 1400--1800 ¿ wavelength interval, and has a field of view of 7.6¿ and an angular resolution of 2 arc minutes. It was carried into orbit by the space shuttle Atlantis in March 1992 as part of the ATLAS-1 mission, During this flight, on several occasions it was pointed at the Earth to provide an estimate of the terrestrial nightglow, auroral and shuttleglow emissions. Our preliminary findings on these non-astronomical measurements are that auroral precipitation activity dominates in the high magnetic latitude, and that outside the high magnetic latitude region we consistently see diffuse emission of .005 to .02 Rayleighs/¿, slowly varying over the nightside. We explore interpretations of this emission as terrestrial nightglow and shuttleglow, and find a possible explanation as NO chemiluminescent nightglow. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1993 |
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Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Airglow and aurora |
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American Geophysical Union 2000 Florida Avenue N.W. Washington, D.C. 20009-1277 USA 1-202-462-6900 1-202-328-0566 service@agu.org |
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