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Morrison et al. 1992
Morrison, D., Feldman, P.D. and Henry, R.C. (1992). Upper limits on spacecraft-induced ultraviolet emissions from the space shuttle (STS-61C). Journal of Geophysical Research 97: doi: 10.1029/91JA02753. issn: 0148-0227.

Ultraviolet spacecraft-induced emissions from low Earth-orbiting satellites have been reported by several investigators. Several R/¿ of ultraviolet emission were obtained from the S3-4 satellite at altitudes between 180 and 250 km and from the Spacelab 1 shuttle mission at an altitude of 250 km. Conway et al. (1987) showed that N2 Lyman-Birge-Hopfield (LBH) emissions observed by S3-4 at night are probably the result of spacecraft interaction with the atmosphere. We have search for band emission of N2, OH, O2, and NO in nightglow spectra obtained in January 1986 with the Johns Hopkins ultraviolet background experiment (UVX) flown on the space shuttle Columbia (STS-61C) at an altitude of 330 km. The experiment consisted of two Ebert monochromators spanning the spectral range from 1200 to 1700 ¿ at 17 ¿ resolution and from 1600 to 3200 ¿ at 29 ¿ resolution. The spectra yield 3&sgr; upper limits for the following total band emission rates: NO Δ, 0.6 R; NO &ggr;, 0.7 R; NO &bgr;, 3.5 R; O2 Herzberg I, 4.5 R; OH (A2&Sgr;u+-X2&Pgr;))0,0) and (1,0), 0.1 R, and N2 LBH, 5.3 R. The upper limits for the N2 LBH emissions are consistent with the recent models of spacecraft induced LBH glow of Kofsky (1988), Swenson and Meyerott (1988), and Cuthbertson and Langer (1989) and with a [N2>3 or [N2>2[O> altitude dependence. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1992

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Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Airglow and aurora, Ionosphere, Ionosphere-atmosphere interactions
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